They did know it. Carruthers would expect Ronan to fight like a gentleman and Ronan would fight to win and then he would.
He pressed his lips into a thin line, considering what Ronan said. With any other group, it might have been easy to suggest that you didn't have to completely trust someone to be their friend but this was them. Friendship was either complete and all-consuming or they weren't friends.
It also felt discourteous to their host to say that if Ronan didn't trust Cheng then that was all the more reason to keep him close and keep him on their side. That was too much of an Adam thought and too close to dishonesty to bear.
"I'm interested in what he has to say," Adam said at last, which was true. "He knows when not to talk about something." That was reason enough for Adam to almost like him.
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Date: 2016-07-06 04:38 am (UTC)He pressed his lips into a thin line, considering what Ronan said. With any other group, it might have been easy to suggest that you didn't have to completely trust someone to be their friend but this was them. Friendship was either complete and all-consuming or they weren't friends.
It also felt discourteous to their host to say that if Ronan didn't trust Cheng then that was all the more reason to keep him close and keep him on their side. That was too much of an Adam thought and too close to dishonesty to bear.
"I'm interested in what he has to say," Adam said at last, which was true. "He knows when not to talk about something." That was reason enough for Adam to almost like him.