"I would love to be able to spoil you, and please, call me Jack. If you have to call me anything slightly formal, Jackson is fine, but Mister Ferrington was my father." He would never get used to hearing others call him that. Sure, he had gotten called it while his dad was alive, but it was different somehow now that he was gone.
"After my failed attempt at a relationship recently and my losses, I sort of slipped off of everyone's radar, and I apologize for that, I didn't mean to, it just sort of happened. It's like you wake up one day and realize that you had completely stopped living your life."