"Yeah, losing a parent sucks." Especially a mom, which is why he wouldn't have thought he'dve been the one to break it to her. But Allison could be tenacious and she sometimes scared him when she got a certain look in her eye. Not as much as Derek, but he had a healthy fear of women and what they could do to him. It was health, okay?

He took a bigger sip, feeling the need to numb the thoughts that were trying to bubble to the surface. "For what it's worth, I'm sorry." He didn't want to ask Scott how much he knew because he had a feeling it wasn't a lot. And the last thing he wanted during this little reunion was to get drunk and get maudlin.