Eli looked at her a long moment, trying to figure out what the words she said meant. Maybe he was reading too much into it, but he felt there was something else there. That perhaps they were now in a more delicate dance, except Eli couldn't hear the music. In fact, he wasn't sure he liked this very much at all. So, he did the only thing he could do was to seek safer middle ground.
"Then support me enough, trust me, to know that I will tell you what you need to know when you need to know it because that has to go both ways." Maybe he was a bit of a hypocrite because he knew that it couldn't ever fully go both ways, but it didn't have to come to this. "I may not always tell you everything, but I would never keep the big things from you willingly."