But you also know you can't lie to me. No one can. You can, however, dance around the truth. Keep things from me. A lie of omission, so to speak. And no, you wouldn't necessarily have made that move yet. If there's a point or a purpose to it, you'd keep me around while I was necessary. Again, I'm not blind.
Was that your intent? Isolate me from the others so you're all I have?