“Thank you for coming, Erin would have really appreciated it. There’s an arrangement of food in the kitchen - down the hall and there are drinks outback.”
“I don’t exactly feel like eating or drinking, mate.” As soon as he had heard the news about Erin’s passing, Lucas knew he had to come back to Launceston to take care of all that had happened. The last thing that he had wanted was Nate to be dealing with this sort of thing on his own, after all, he had learnt first hand just how painful losing a loved one was. It had been years and he still has not able to accept what had happened but he had not suffered nearly as much as the man before him. His first wife had suffered an untimely death, and now Erin. His hand rested lightly on Nate’s shoulder in an attempt to console him, gripping it slightly as a empathetic smile crossed his lips. “How about we go out the back and talk? By the looks of things, you could use a good talk.”
