His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

Chapter 457

The three others stood agape.

“Thaddeus, it’s been twenty years, where could you get the evidence?!” Evadne seized the man’s hand.

Thaddeus interlaced his fingers with hers, his voice hoarse and deep, “Remember when I told you I went to track down that maid who used to work for my mom?”

The woman nodded obediently.

“People often have a premonition when disaster looms. Before Elspeth met her end; the maid seemed to sense danger. Gordon sent someone caught her in time, and then, well, I had to resort to certain measures.”

Thaddeus took a deep breath and continued, “In a state of sheer panic, to save her son, she revealed some truths, things not even mentioned in that recording, the real truth.”

He was innately good–hearted. If it hadn’t been a dire necessity, why would he use a kid’s life as a leverage to coerce, to threaten, to become a merciless fiend?

Evadne believed that even if the maid had remained obstinate, Thaddeus would not have harmed her son. He couldn’t do it. If he had, how would he be any different from Avery?

“My mom was killed by Elspeth. It was Elspeth who poisoned her with her own hands,” Thaddeus’s eyes were rimmed with red, struggling to contain the surging waves of hatred, making his hand, held tightly by Evadne, as cold as a block of ice.

“Poisoned with her own hands?!” Arnold and Aaron were so shocked their faces stiffened.

Gordon swayed as if he had been struck by a heavy blow! Evadne’s throat tightened, the air seemed thin, and her chest felt crushed by a massive stone.

Anyone else would have gone mad, but because Thaddeus had not, the calmer he remained, the more her heart ached.

“Mr. Abernathy, what in the world happened then?” Aaron pressed urgently.

“The maid confessed that she had indeed followed Elspeth’s orders to switch out my mom’s depression medication, but she replaced it with harmless vitamins that wouldn’t be fatal. However, during that time, maybe Elspeth sensed my mom and Frederic’s relationship thawing. Afraid of complications, she switched the harmless pills with a poison. Taken in small doses daily, it would accumulate and cause a heart attack, sudden death,” Thad’s broad shoulders trembled as he uttered each word, each syllable laced with ice and bone–deep hatred.

Tears welled up in Evadne’s eyes, her soft hand gently stroking his back.

“How did the maid know all these details?” Arnold, the prosecutor, eager for information, questioned.

“She saw it.”

Thaddeus clenched Evadne’s hand as if only through this tangible touch could he remain composed, “She said, two days before my mom’s fall, she realized Elspeth would sneak back in to switch the pills again after she had done so, without ever mentioning it to her, and she dared not ask.“–

had indeed died of heart failure, the maid handling her medication would have been taken away

matter what the maid said because she was in charge of the medication;

Thaddeus paused, his handsome face growing paler, “But on the day of the incident, there was an unexpected turn. My mom, who had been walking in the garden, realized she had

of switching the

room, eavesdropped. She was so tense during that time,

that lost sleep behind bars!” Aaron snarled through clenched

She mentioned that ever since my mom joined the Abernathy family, she seemed to lose all sense of emotion. That was the first time she ever saw her so enraged, it

then?” Evadne watched him intently.

in the room and right

flaring with each breath.

him was the haunting image of his mother plunging to her death. For the first time, he realized the sound of a body hitting the ground from a height was so muffled, so heavy. He

pain and shadow of that glance would burden him for life, nearly crushing him

she could, wishing their hearts and pulses could intertwine. He hadn’t shed a tear, yet she couldn’t help but let her own fall freely, dampening his

my hatred, I haven’t lost my mind to it; I haven’t fallen

softened, as he wiped the small pearls from her cheeks with his rough fingertips, “Most importantly, it’s because you’re by my side,

saw the truth. Cassius was right.

about the same time you heard Elspeth fall from the balcony. Could that be indirect

your mom and Mr. Abernathy had been on better terms, and she was furious when she found out that her medication had been

analysis, “While we lack concrete evidence, the truth might just be as

keep silent, giving her a hefty sum of hush money so she’d never have to serve the Abernathy family again. The maid said

you must protect her at all costs,”

Elspeth’s drug charges, keep her detained and not let her out. Then,

only got one shot, and it had to count. If he was not certain, he

asked, her eyes sparkling

his lips grazed her ear, “Later, behind closed

Velvet Haven was a scene of carnage.

screams within, which were enough to make Harvey physically

other woman I’ve seen

her lip coldly, “It’s sad enough that I resemble Evadne; am I not even allowed

I didn’t say anything offensive, did I?” Before

elegant throat stained crimson. He breathed heavily, blood mingling with sweat down his chiseled

and Elsie bowed in

bloodied whip onto the floor, removed his gold–rimmed