Chapter 126 Beneath The Surface

• "Do you believe you are the only one keeping secrets, Damon?” I snarled, trying to ignore the hammering aching in my brain as the words came out more sharply than I had planned. I sneered at him, "You have been playing me exactly as much as I have been playing you."
• Damon's massive shoulders flexed with hardly held wrath as his face constricted and his expression became incomprehensible as he stood across from me. His dark and stormy gaze fastened on mine, but then something else took me off guard. It wasn't simply resentment. It was... wounded.
• His voice strained, and just a whisper, "Is that what you think of me?" he questioned. His words' rawness made me stop and fasten my pulse. "You believe I have been exploiting you after all? Games?