"M-hm. Maybe. Although not telling you the truth was a way of keeping you, so it was done for you. Just in an admittedly twisted and undoubtedly selfish way." Still, he would stand by how that was undeniably something he had done for the sake of Sam. For the sake of being with him. "I won't tell you more than you want to know."

He looked at Sam as he explained all that about Cheon, nodding and having to smile in spite of it all. "I know. I do research, you know? When I work, I get to know my targets better than their own mothers know them. Better than they know themselves. Perhaps in another life I'd have been a great cop. Or detective."

There was a thought. "I don't just hurt people for the sake of it. I'm only a sadist in the bedroom." He grinned and raised his eyebrows, then shrugged. "I'll make sure everyone with him against their will is taken care of. Promise."