"Okay," he said carefully. Eli had only been joking about the mood swings with Jase because it was an easier way to talk about a difficult situation. He didn't honestly believe that she was having any sort of mood swings - at least not ones that were unexpected. More importantly, he didn't like that she was apologizing for the other night, not in place of answering the almost question he posed. Not when he felt it was the thing that hung in that delicate balance between them. They had entered into new territory the other day with the fight, they were back here again now.
Eli didn't shake her hand off his, but he made no move to acknowledge it. No, he was onto something else. He had always been something of a singularly focused man and now when it was so close he couldn't just let this go, even if it could be better for him to do so. "But that doesn't answer the question, would you be willing to obliviate the nightmare memory from my head?"