Shannon's answer dragged Eli from his thoughts and forced him to look back at Shannon laying across the backseat. He wanted to argue with him, but he was smart enough to know that arguing with Shannon, even after passing a test like that, was a bad idea and was downright suicidal if he cared to think about it long enough. "For now. I just don't see what you see in me."

It was the consequences of growing up the way he had. The boy in the graveyard who had to learn to be like everyone else, but stuck out because no matter how hard he tried, he was different and people made his life miserable because of it. Yeah, Eli was smart and calculating and perceptive, but he had confidence issues and a negative amount of self-esteem. Which would make him a bad protege for a mob boss, but yet Shannon had still picked him up and decided to train him. Eli honestly couldn't see why he would when there were better choices than him.