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Kara did not even realize when her cheeks got stained with tears that she had been trying to hold back. She had trusted James with her body and soul and hearing him say all these words were enough to tear her soul apart. She had hated him when he had not been there for her, but there had never been a day when she had not loved him blindly. Even when he had ignored her, even when he had hidden her away in the confinement of his room, hidden how closely, how passionately he treated her, she had loved him. He had been there in her arms when she had come to know the difference between a man and woman, she had been in his lap when he had breathed in her scent longingly for the first time, he had been there in front of her eyes on each step of her life, in each moment. And even when he was not there for her in past three years, she had never in her wildest dream even thought of ditching him or being with some other man for physical pleasure. How can she feel so much for a man who thinks of her this way? How can she drown herself for the devil standing in front of her eyes that crossed each line of respect and love when he got angry?
"I also wish you had done the same, James. Remember the day when my parents died? I wish you had just fucked me that day, and then never showed me your face again, maybe then we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. I know that is what you intended to do that day anyway, if it had not been for that fucking call. But yes. How can I expect you to do that? You just found a 'doll' in your childhood and kept her clutched in your fucking claws until you made sure she is bleeding, right? You wanted me to be with you just so I am not with Damon. It was never love for you, it was never anything for you. I am not dumb." 
James stared at her in bewilderment. His face had suddenly lost all the colors while she continued with a smirk that was filled with hurt he had wreaked, "you wanted to win me over just so Damon doesn't get to me. That is why you kept it hidden from everyone else all those years. That is why you never revealed what you were feeling for me in front of your family. That is why your love existed only behind the four walls of yours or mine bedroom."
Tears streamed down her face when she fiercely whispered, "You forgot that I knew your feelings more than anyone in the world. I knew what you did, and why you did more than even your parents. I knew everything. I knew I was nothing more than a bet for you but I still fucking stayed! I ignored everything and pretended like hell that you loved me just as blindly as I loved you, because I knew that behind that facade of yours you truly had feelings for me. You did every fucking thing to not feel but failed. It was just a bet between two brothers playing a game of winning for you. But that changed when I left. You realized you loved me when I went away and suddenly when I came back after three years, I found this look in your eyes that I had never seen. I saw that fucking longing that I wanted to see for so long because it dripped out of my eyes for you to notice for years!"
She laughed bitterly, "You didn't expect me to know this, did you? You thought you had it hidden pretty well inside that loving face of yours. Did you see yourself losing that game you had planned out for years and freaked out, James? Did you think how can you lose this well planned out net of love you had spread out for me despite of giving up your everything? Despite of losing yourself what if you were not the one who get to have me the first time. Is that what is bothering you? Is that why you are saying everything that is coming to your damn mind because now you are not able to bury that damn burning feeling of jealousy? Did the thought of my betrayal hurt more, or was it the thought of Damon fucking me before you had the chance, Mr. Sullivan?"
And in that moment James felt the ground slipping away from under his feet with her each harsh word and the coldness in her eyes. She looked at him with a haunted smile that was only filled with hatred for him.