"DID Mom manage to fake her death? And did Dad actually ended up being wanted?" Astrid asked.
Although he already had an idea on what the answer would be, he still wanted to know how it happened. The fact that no one had come in this planet to look for his mother for as long as he could remember meant that for everyone else, she was already dead. Emmaline Grimaldi no longer existed.
But he wasn't sure if the same could be said for his father. That's why he asked this question.