"Of course not," Mello said, immediately and instinctively.

He wasn't lying. It had been a rational decision, and it was the right way to proceed. (Never mind that Mello had backed himself into a corner by being the one to suggest they ignore the truths they'd revealed, only to have Near agree in a way that made further discussion impossible.)

"You have to trust your partner, or you're fucked. But if you're not used to trusting people, it's entirely too easy to let it go too far."