He always had been a bit to blind to how things affected others, and he'd never really thought much about how the way he'd left the Agency might have impacted on his family. Though to be fair, at the time, he'd been rather busy running for his life. And lately, he'd been too preoccupied with reliving his youth through Brant to really think about the fact that in a few years' time his parents would be going through exactly what Anne was describing.
He said, voice a little rough, "They took two years of my memories. I quit. That's what happened."