Rebekah recognized that tone, that honesty that few others ever got to hear from Kol. For a pair of siblings who were so often laced with sarcasm and bitchiness, when it was just them, then the barriers could come down and their true feelings were allowed to be seen. Of course, if anyone else were to wander by, back up those barriers would go. In an instant.
"She's no different," she agreed with Kol. "Both of them manipulate our brothers and for what? Their own selfish needs. And Caroline is completely aware of it, she's admitted she's aware of it. And yet in Katherine, Nik hates it, in Caroline he's in love with it. And he turns into some puppy dog around her and...."
She trailed off, her gaze dropping down as she toyed with a loose thread on his sleeve. "You know he saved her over me once? I thought he was dead, our brother the hybrid, actually dead from our mother's schemes. And I mourned him, I thought I couldn't even go on any more and then he turns up, in the body of Tyler fucking Lockwood and saves her and leaves me. To be chained up and forced to breathe vervain. Nik just left me." A thousand years by his side, running from all those who hunted him and still, Nik had saved Caroline and left her. And that just hurt. All the damn time.