Chapter 481

“President Ashbourne.”

Thaddeus’s voice was as raspy as if a steamroller had passed over his throat, barely audible.

“Thaddeus!”

Cassius glared with bloodshot eyes, his chest ablaze with fury, like a wild beast charging straight at Thaddeus, who stood frozen in place!

Thaddeus saw the fierce blow aimed at his cheek coming; but he didn’t move a muscle. Hit him, that what he deserved. Even if Cassius beat him to death, he wouldn’t utter a word of complaint.

“Cassius! Stop!”

Just as Cassius’s fist was inches away from the man’s face, Chasel appeared in the nick of time, throwing his arms around him from behind in a tight embrace!

“Let go,” Cassius hissed, his lips bleeding, his heart dripping blood.

“I won’t!”

Chasel’s arms trembled around his sturdy waist as he shouted breathlessly, “What’s the point of hitting him?! Will beating him bring back what Evadne has lost?!”

“But he deserves to die!”

Cassius’s cheeks shivered with rage, his powerful body struggling fiercely, tears that had been held back now escaping uncontrollably, “Why doesn’t he just die? My sister can’t have children anymore! She’s only twenty–five and she’s lost the chance to be a mother forever! It’s all thanks to you, Thaddeus, why don’t you just die?!”

Why didn’t he just die? Yes, he truly deserved death.

Thaddeus felt like a clay doll, drained of blood and spirit, his features defeated and ashen.

Chasel noticed how wretched he looked. Thaddeus’s short hair was dripping wet, droplets tracing down his pale, once handsome

cheeks.

His finely tailored suit was soaked through, the hem of his trousers and his shoes caked in mud. It was a sorry sight.

It had started raining when Evadne was taken away by her father. Thaddeus had chased after the Ashbourne family’s car in the pouring rain for miles, yet in the end, he hadn’t even caught a glimpse of Evadne.

“I’m sorry, it’s all my fault, all my fault.”

He muttered over and over, a lost soul, “All my fault.I am to blame. I’m sorry.”

“Thaddeus, do you have any idea how much Evadne loves children. How much she wanted to have a kid with you?!”

told

wanted to be a mother. And sometimes, remembering your

as if it was being tortured by a poisoned blade, the agony spreading rapidly through

he could feel was pain, bone–deep,

I truly didn’t know.”

tears, his lips pale as he stammered, “If I had known,

“You didn’t know?”

bitterly in extreme anger, “You didn’t know about your one–night stand with Evadne; you didn’t know she was pregnant with your child. Are you joking, or are you truly that clueless? But regardless of which it is, I can no longer forgive you. If I had left Evadne in the hands of a heartless man like

He had been back in the country for a while and had been through many harrowing experiences with

that fruitless marriage of three years had wounded Evadne

in that position, even if he still loved the man, he probably couldn’t bear the daily reminder of inability to bear children, that self–inflicted torment eroding the happiness

a star–crossed couple, such an insoluble

things would deteriorate further, Chasel could only plead, “Cassius, no matter what, Thaddeus is still the man

If it weren’t for his sacrifice, how could you have possibly returned alive? I’d never see you again! You’d cause more pain! Including to Evadne!”

eyes were still red and swollen, but he

before me, and don’t step back into Evadne’s life. I can forgive all the

lip and walked away. Chasel cast a silent glance at the bloodless Thaddeus and reluctantly followed

give me one last chance

with tears, as pitiful as Evadne had been when begging him not to divorce, perhaps even more so, “I truly love Evadne very much. Please give me one chance, the last one! Let me

“Sure.”

was cold, his laugh frosty, cruelly smashing the hope he had given, “Return to me a

couldn’t remember how he made it out of the parking lot.

roaring back, a buzzing noise in his ears as if countless demons were jeering and mocking his foolishness,

“Thad!”

to him countless times from behind, but Thaddeus heard nothing,

Thaddeus’s body swayed! The rain–washed world in front of him blurred and distorted, as if time

wasn’t for Jareth’s timely dash to his side to catch him, he might have taken a nasty spill

with urgent concern, “You can’t give up on Evadne, and you certainly can’t just throw in the towel! Can’t you see?

of me. Jareth,

make up fof…for everything she’s lost?” “There’s got to be a way! With modern medicine advancing so fast, there’s hardly a disease money can’t tackle. Even for terminal illnesses, enough cash can buy years more of

with her. If I had known. If I had known it would come to this, why did I

and he

her psychological burdens and love Thaddeus anew, which was already a courageous act under immense pressure. Yet, every time Thaddeus mentioned kids,

exactly what happened back then, the full story behind Evadne’s miscarriage. Only then can we come up

pulled at his hair, trying hard

that Evadne had been two months pregnant when she lost the

‘Mr. Thaddeus Abernathy!”

breathless and soaked from the rain, ran over with a look of grave concern, “Mr. Hamilton Abernathy can’t reach you, he got Mr. Murray

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