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.“–

indeed died of heart failure, the

because she was in charge of the medication; she

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

the act of switching the medication?”

“The maid, hiding just outside the room, eavesdropped. She was so tense

that lost sleep behind bars!” Aaron snarled

couldn’t see inside but heard a heated argument between my mom and Elspeth. 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

then?” Evadne watched him

silence in the room and right after

bloodshot, nostrils flaring with each breath. His hand, drenched in sweat and clasped

first time, he realized the sound of a body hitting the ground from a height was so

looked once, but the pain and shadow of that glance would burden him for life, nearly crushing him time and again.

hadn’t shed a tear, yet she couldn’t help but

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

he wiped the small pearls from her cheeks with his rough fingertips, “Most importantly, it’s because you’re by my side, Evadne. You don’t know how much you mean to me. You’ve given me tremendous courage. Without it, I might have

truth. Cassius was right. Evadne was Thaddeus’s

time you heard Elspeth

better terms, and she was furious when she found out that her medication had been tampered with

his own analysis, “While we lack concrete evidence, the truth might just be as we suspect.

a hefty sum of hush money so she’d never have to

a key witness; you must protect her at

let her out. Then, collect more evidence as quickly as possible to prosecute Elspeth

Elspeth on charges like incitement to murder. Because he only got one shot, and it had to count. If he was

physical evidence?” Evadne asked, her eyes sparkling with

were deepened, his hand snaking around her waist, leaning in close as his lips grazed her ear, “Later, behind closed

Velvet Haven was a scene

stood at the basement door, listening to the blood–curdling screams within, which were enough to make Harvey physically

not even batting an eyelid. The only other woman

coldly, “It’s sad enough that I resemble Evadne;

I didn’t say anything offensive, did I?” Before Harvey’s voice trailed off, the basement door swung open.

blood mingling with sweat down his chiseled face, his eyes fierce and

and Elsie bowed in unison.

tossed the bloodied whip onto the floor, removed his gold–rimmed glasses, and wiped the blood droplets from