"Thanks," he replied to Mallory. "It's been a while since you and I were at one of these together."
Shit, now isn't the time to go down memory lane, he admonished himself. But he noticed that Brian was paying far more attention to Elise than to he and Mallory, so then again, why not?
"Didn't we go to one of Ben Abbott's parties together? Lots of fun stuff happened at that one." It had been the last party that they'd attended as a couple, so it stuck out in Benson's mind. Also, Elise had purposefully not attended because she knew that Tommy would be there, so it had just been him and Mal hanging out for most of the night, watching the shenanigans around them.