"No. I want to know. Under what circumstances would you share everything with me and would keep everything away from me?" He insisted.
Helena was stunned. "What's gotten into you?"
"You answer me first."
"Fine. I really don't know. But what I can say is that if you could give me enough sense of security, I will share everything with you. That wouldn't change for now, tomorrow, next week, month, year, decade or even a century. So, if you want me to share everything with you, it depends on your attitude.
"For now, I don't trust my father. If I were my mother, I wouldn't share my deepest secret with my father either. So, I am not going to confront him head-on until I have concrete proof that he could be trusted about this issue." Helena had an outburst all of a sudden.
This time, it was Vernon's turn to be stunned. There were various reasons for his reaction.
There were two parts in her outburst, and both the parts stunned him to speechlessness.