Nothing I say on that subject will change what happened. Did I have to kill her? No, I didn't have to, but I did. I was angry at her at that time, for abandoning us, for leaving you to go run away with that pirate. So when she told me that she had never loved me, I lashed out and I killed her.

[He manages to keep his voice level with considerable effort, as well as keeping himself from snarling the words, though the heat of the emotion behind the subject at hand does darken his eyes and make his accent stand out more than usual.]