His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

Chatper 440

Chapter 440

The crowd gasped in shock.

“Seriously? Edith, hitting herself?”

Her face was swollen, was she really that ruthless to her own self?

Edith’s face drained of color, her swollen cheeks turning ghostly pale, “Evadne, what the heck are you babbling about? Have I lost my mind to hit myself?”

“I think you’ve totally lost it,” Evadne tutted, shrugging her shoulders. “Not only have you gone bananas, but you’ve also scared the daylights out of me. I’m being generous not hitting you up for emotional distress compensation, and you’re trying to sling mud at me? Just because you’re a Fairhaven, you think you can spit venom?”

The room erupted in clamour!

Flashbulbs frenzied over Edith’s ashen face!

“Miss Ashbourne’s integrity is beyond question, right? She’s always been into charity and social work, even helped that poor Abernathy family servant with funeral expenses. She wouldn’t frame Edith, would she?”

“Even if Ms. Evadne did lash out, there must’ve been a reason, right?”

“Maybe it was a catfight over jealousy, but still, hitting someone is not okay! I have my reservations about Evadne’s character!”

Evadne was utterly sick of these petty female brawls. If Edith wanted to scheme against her, couldn’t she come up with something more sophisticated?

Innocence needed no defense. Being misunderstood didn’t faze her.

Besides, someone had swollen her own face; it seemed like a win for her.

Just as Evadne was about to leave the drama behind, an anxious shout came from outside the crowd.

“Edith! What happened to you? Who’s messing with you?”

The crowd parted, and Barry, surrounded by the Fairhaven family and flanked by bodyguards, hurried over.

“Grandpa. Mommy.” Edith’s eyes brimmed with tears, her lips quivering pitifully.

Seeing her daughter with hair askew and swollen cheeks, collapsed on the floor, and Evadne looking down with icy disdain, Mrs. Fairhaven naturally assumed Evadne was the bully.

“Someone help Edith up!”

At Barry’s command, bodyguards rushed forward, forming a human shield against the prying cameras.

“Oh, Edith!”

Mrs. Fairhaven embraced her daughter immediately, shooting daggers at Evadne with her eyes, “Ms. Evadne! If you have a beef with me, come at me, but why bully my daughter?”

“Mommy, don’t get upset, take care of yourself, I’m okay. I’m fine.” Edith comfortingly patted her mother.

NOSA

Such a heartbreaking scene.

At that moment, the Ashbournes arrived, stirring the atmosphere further.

Edith’s crude and dirty tricks had escalated things/pulling in the big guns.

“Chairman Emeric, your daughter sure has a fiery temper, lashing out in broad daylight,” Barry leaned on his cane, eyes coldly fixed on Emeric, his tone barely hiding his fury. “Clearly, you dote on her quite a bit. But isn’t everyone’s child their heart and soul? Evadne is, and my Edith is my treasure too! About this incident, you and your daughter owe me an explanation!”

The Fairhavens were not to be trifled with!

it were anyone else, it would have been a dead

stared at Edith, unsettling her to the core, driving her closer

tightly, “Evadne, are you alright? You’re not hurt, are

mother and daughter

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fine, Myra, don’t worry,” Evadne reassured her

for that. Others might doubt, but we never will,”

furrowed as he looked

if she had, so be it.

was about diffusing this

how would others

she needed a solid public image, credibility. Otherwise, people would leverage this against

Barry, Mrs. Fairhaven, where did you see Evadne hitting anyone? We need

of aggression but

turned to see Avery stride

gaze was deep and

it wasn’t necessary. And if

Not Avery.

to mean? Are you suggesting our Edith framed Ms. Evadne?” Barry asked, his

for Ms. Edith. A single lapse

gaze filled with tenderness, oblivious to the onlookers who

eyes for Ms. Evadne, too. It was obvious at the charity auction, and now he’s defending

what Chairman Emeric is thinking. One’s the president of Abernathy Enterprises,

as clean as a whistle, not a single mark on his record. Thaddeus, though? He’s like a rotten apple at the bottom of the barrel – nothing but flies and skeeters buzzing around him! First there was Acacia, then Edith. You just can’t shake ‘em – what kind of parents would push their kid into a swamp

and she clutched her mother’s arm with a death grip.

though she had never crossed paths with Avery, he

almost crushing her, making it

her voice trembling with indignation. “My daughter has been beaten to a pulp, and you’re still defending that girl? I

picture of innocence, but inside,

checked – that corridor

something? Why else would

eyes glinting with an icy sheen that sent shivers down her spine, “Did Evadne really hit

Edith’s voice choked.

adults here, you know. You have to stand by your words. Don’t wait until the truth is laid bare on the table because there’s no antidote

room fell silent, everyone waiting for Edith’s

felt like

the man before her – it was irrational, but she was terrified of him, as though he held a knife to her throat. She had never felt this kind of fear, not

my footing and

to clear Evadne’s

herself, did she?

she folded. Did you

and she wimps, out when someone calls her bluff. If it were me, I’d

slander. If the Ashbourne family doesn’t let this slide,

had managed to clear it up for Evadne

remained stoic, no signs of emotion, not even a

brow relaxed, and he nodded at Avery, displaying a rare smile

to explain herself. If you’re looking for an explanation, it’s not out of the question. We can meet after the derby, bring

squinted his eyes, internally cheering.

the subject himself, but Cassius, being young and passionate, was

clutched her daughter in panic, while Barry’s

slightly, “The Ashbourne family never shirks the troubles we stir up. But if it wasn’t us, and someone’s trying to frame or slander

watching, and the Fairhaven family members‘

brought to the police, what then? If they refused, wouldn’t it imply they had something to hide, and wouldn’t the world

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