Shepard nodded slowly. "Mine were killed when I was sixteen." She understood where he was coming from. She'd lost the people who cared about her most. "But it wont stay that way. You just haven't hit the turning point yet. You'll get there. You're too nice of a guy for you not to have some impact on someone."
Or someone would have an impact on him. Alter his course. She just hated seeing him in such a rough state. Hadn't he helped her craw out of that rough place she was in, so she could be sober with Rawdon? Him and Hem both.