Chapter 141

Sienna

Something was off.

And though he kept saying that he was alright, I knew that something was going on.

I just did not know what it was and I couldn’t wrap my finger around it. I couldn’t put my finger on it to understand what it was that was bothering him.

It wasn’t just the tight set of his jaw, or the way his shoulders seemed to carry more weight than usual, it was the way his eyes looked when they landed on me. There was pain there. Quiet. Controlled. But real. A heaviness that lingered every time our eyes met and he offered me one of those half-smiles that didn’t quite reach the fire in his gaze.

Damon was trying to hide it. Whatever it was, he didn’t want me to know.

And I understood more than anything that maybe others knew about it. It was me who he was trying to hide it from. It was as if he was trying to protect me from something though, whatever it was, I knew that I did not need protection from it. I knew that I would be ab