I brought it myself, not because he had asked, but because I wanted to see whether I still felt afraid of him.

“A little,” I admitted when he asked.

He accepted that without protest.

He told me that he had been discharged from follow-up care, though fatigue still interrupted his days.

He was cooperating with authorities investigating the restaurant incident and the port companies.

Some of his own business practices were being reviewed as well.

“You could lose everything,” I said.

“I could lose things I should never have held onto.”