“If you bleed all over my floors trying to escape, I'll be forced to track you down and haul you back here to clean them."
I blink. It's so close to what I was thinking that it's almost eerie. "You are the strangest man I've ever met."
Now it's his turn to give me a wary look. "What?"
"Exactly. What? What kind of threat is that? You're worried about your floors?"
"They're nice floors.”