"I'm alright, for the time being." Aside from a heartbeat that won't settle, he seems fine every time she checks. "You're hurt," he observes. Not just hurt, but had been hurt multiple times, with bruises and other wounds in various states of healing, now that she had no ring to hide it. "I thought you weren't coming back." He's a little ashamed to admit that, though he's not sure why -- maybe now that she's found out the entire, terrible truth, she really will leave for good. And who could blame her?