Mark shook his head ruefully, "Too late for that. He passed away many years ago."
"That's rather curious," Eric mused with a perplexed look. "My wife mentioned that as a child, her mother used to take her from place to place, always in hiding, until they finally settled in S City when she was around ten. Could it be that my father-in-law passed away during that time?"
Eric said, his gaze sharpening as it drilled into Mark, not missing even the slightest hint of a clue.
A peculiar expression crossed Mark's face, and he coughed awkwardly, "Ahem, well, the situation is a bit intricate..."
"Explain it to me slowly," Eric insisted. His eyes were slits of icy precision, fixated on the sinister-looking middle-aged man before him. "I'm here to digest every single detail you have to sha
