"What about her husband?" She asked cautiously.
At that question, his face took on that masklike look—carefully blank, deliberately expressionless, with dangerously darkened eyes, and it made her extremely uneasy whenever he did that.
"I don't know." After a prolonged moment of silence, he added, "He killed my parents and got away with the crime. When I was boy, I'd only seen Ella once in our house when she was talking to my mom about something, but I never knew her family background nor her husband's because the damned man was a shady bastard who made sure to clean up his tracks."