"It was important to him. I didn’t feel like anything else he was talking about really was. The place in Arizona, the recovery program, some offer he’d had to produce, in Japan...But he wanted to be sure you got your money back, and I guess that giving it to me was one way to do that. For one thing"—she narrowed her eyes—"once he’d told me he owed you, he knew I wouldn’t give it back to him to spend on smack."