Chapter 480

Barry suddenly remembered that Jareth had been managing the security forces of the Fairhaven Group for many years. When he had entrusted the security department to Jareth, it was merely because he thought it wasn’t a core power sector of the He wanted to give Jareth something to do, but now, his delegation of authority had become a tool to restrain him! ““I’ve already coordinated with President Ashbourne, and we have this place locked down tight.”

group.

Jareth’s eyes narrowed, a cold glint within them, “Grandpa Barry, I mean you no harm. As long as Edith pays the price for her actions, confesses and repents for her misdeeds, you’re free to walk out of here with your head held high.”

“Jareth! How dare you!” Barry’s neck veins bulged with anger.

“Who is the one really daring here?!”

Thaddeus’s eyes, bloodshot from fury, glared at Barry with the ferocity of a lion awakened from slumber, his gaze filled with murderous intent, a chilling and bloodthirsty aura erupting from him!

“Who confuses right with wrong, aiding and abetting evil? Who is it that, feeling untouchable, has repeatedly harmed my woman?! It was you, and your granddaughter, who’s worse than any beast!”

Everyone was so intimidated by the man’s overwhelming presence that they scarcely dared to breathe.

Evadne, with tears in her eyes, gazed at him with intense affection. She still loved him deeply, and still enjoyed hearing him say, “Evadne is my woman.”

Thaddeus’s throat was filled with a taste of blood, rising from his chest consumed with rage. His face was grim as frost, his muscles outlined beneath his suit as if carved from iron, extending to his clenched fists.

Anger and pain filled him with the power to destroy worlds. Before him, everything seemed fragile, ready to shatter with a single blow! “Anyone who shields Edith becomes my enemy. And I will spend my life torturing them, ensuring they live every day in agony. Don’t believe me? Try me!”

Barry had been a streetwise kid since he was a teenager, brawling for turf with rival gangs, no stranger to intimidating showdowris. Yet now, in front of this younger man, he felt his courage falter, his bluster hollow.

“Grandpa Barry, take me with you, please, Grandpa!” Edith shook Barry, who was rigid with shock, her voice choked with fear.

Could the old man really be scared of Thaddeus? It was just a few threats, and he was caving? Pathetic!

“Edith.”

Evadne, pushing through her pain, steadied herself and stepped away from her brother, moving closer to Edith.

Now surrounded, Edith, despite her hatred for Evadne and her desire to see her dead, could no longer muster her defiance, resembling nothing so much as a turtle retracting into its shell.

“I only have one question for you.”

Evadne closed her eyes, then reopened them to reveal a chilling, dark aura, “This medical report claiming I’m infertile where did you get it?”

All eyes were sharply focused on Edith’s swollen, reddened face. The young lady’s casual inquiry struck at the heart of the matter.

“Yeah, I’m quite curious about the question Ms. Ashbourne just asked.” Chasel strode to Cassius’s side, his gaze icy as he looked at Edith, “As a doctor myself, I know these medical reports are highly confidential. Any doctor with a shred of professional integrity wouldn’t disclose such sensitive information to anyone outside of the patient. So, I figure, Ms. Fairhaven, you must have bribed Ms. Ashbourne’s attending physician, right? If that’s the case, let’s bring that corrupt doctor in as well. We’ll have both the evidence and the

witness.”

glance at him, and

is

gallant knight from the Ashbourne family, ready to

his eyes internally. He wasn’t any knight; this was more like offering one favors at the expense of another, presenting Evadne

It had nothing to do

“witness“, Edith lost all composure,

come from a doctor? Then where did you get it?”

eyes darting around in

tearing his tie from his neck in a fit of fury and throwing it to the

his command, the bodyguards moved to grab her. Edith, trembling with fear, threw herself into her grandfather’s arms, weeping and wailing, “Grandpa Barry! How can Jareth treat me this way?! He’s trying to kill his own

ever again?!” Barry, seeing that a tough approach was futile, pleaded softly, “Even if Edith has done wrong, she’s young, perhaps misled by someone with ulterior motives! In any case, I don’t believe my dear granddaughter could do such a thing! How would she even think to ask a doctor for a medical report? Surely, someone planned this, using Edith! That person is likely someone close to Ms. Ashbourne.

all night, now spoke with a touch of

was a bad seed, but she wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Even if she had been smarter, how could she

to this secret, aside from the attending physician and

a close confidant of Hamilton for decades, watched closely by Mr.

a file, to know so intimately about her miscarriage

shiver of cold dread coursed through Evadne’s core. It was as though an unseen pair of eyes had been spying on

Barry, you shouldn’t tax yourself with too much talking at your age. You need to take care of

And whether there’s a mastermind or not is still up for debate. We’ve caught her red–handed, and now she has to face

plan any of this! I was

ire, not only was her scheme against Evadne crumbling, she herself was on the

Jareth in a panic, “Jareth, I’m sorry. I won’t dare to do it again! But I’m a victim too; someone used me as a pawn! He wants

swollen face was streaked with black lines, the remnants of her mascara running down her cheeks, a sight so

with trembling hands to grasp his. The man’s brow twitched in repulsion, abruptly stepping back as if dodging a bucket of filthy water being hurled at him.

everyone quite the show. The marble floor felt like it was shattering her kneecaps, and the pain only made her tears flow

going on? Spit it out!” Jareth roared,

I received an anonymous call from a

stranger? You didn’t recognize his voice?”

want me to recognize him so he

nothing about him, but he seems to know everything about me, about you all! He knew how much I wanted to marry Thad, so

have a knack for timing,” Cassius and the others were seething with rage,

do it? If he told you to eat crap,

furrowed in thought, her eyes a deep, contemplative pool.

had used her trauma as a weapon to fracture their relationship, and the effect was undeniably profound. Previously, her relationship with Thaddeus had hit

same: sinister, cunning, vile, and aimed straight for the jugular. Edith, with her pea–sized brain, could never have concocted such a devious

who’s been advising you, isn’t he the same one who used

supposed abandonment by Thaddeus was also a trap she had set?! Barry looked utterly stunned, his lips quivering.

desperate to snag Thaddeus that she’d throw away her own reputation? His precious granddaughter, whom he

misty as he gazed at the delicate face of the woman he cared

most aggrieved, the most deeply wounded, yet even now, she was striving

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