'Been better?' she asked, leaning back while turning more to face him. 'You're fully healed from the attack, are you not?' she said. 'Is there something else? You do know you can talk to me, don't you? I have a pretty good ear.'
She did worry about him at times, about all of those who worked for her. In a way they were all her family. Or at least that's the way she saw it.