Of all the things she could have told him, that was probably the last thing he'd expected to hear. He set his glass down, eyes widening a little as he stared at her, feeling all the air leave his lungs and his chest tighten. Tess was Lex's sister? There was a certain cruel irony in that for both of them, considering Lex had tried to kill him and had killed her where she was from.
He blinked several times, slowly sitting back in his chair as he tried to process that information. "Oh," he managed after a moment. Then he picked up his glass once more, taking a long drink and swallowing it down quickly. "So...I mean you never knew any of that growing up? Or..." Or since they'd met on that island so long ago.