Noah saw her glance slip to his hands, realized that he fiddled with his ring, and made his hands go still. He cleared his throat. "Yes. Julia and I were married nine years. She was killed in a drunk driving incident a year ago."
Beneath the table, his knee wanted to bounce to release some of the nervous tension, but he squelched the impulse. "I now remember Jae-Mi saying something about how her father had died a few years ago, though I can't recall if she said just how many years."