His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

Chapter 482

Frederic had been raised amidst wealth and privilege, never once having endured such a beating, such indignity! And to make matters worse, it had happened in front of his own son! His pride was wounded beyond belief; the humiliation was off the charts!

“I’ll beat some sense into you, you ungrateful wretch!”

Hamilton was about to hurl the fine mug once again, but Mr. Murray intervened just in time, “Mr. Hamilton Abernathy! Calm down!”

Frederic, clutching the injury on his forehead, seethed through gritted teeth, “You favor Emeric’s daughter over your own flesh and blood, turning your back on your own family! You’ve lost it! Emeric and his daughter have been a thorn in the side of the Abernathy Group, even snatching the hundred–billion–dollar Equestrian Hotel project right from under us at the banquet! If it weren’t for their meddling, that project would have been ours!” As if his furious tirade to the patriarch wasn’t enough, he turned and pointed an accusing finger at Thaddeus, “And you! Not only do you not support your own family’s business, you even facilitate a deal between the Ashbourne family and William and his son! Your brother, ailing and abroad, still does what he can for the family! And you, for the sake of a woman, you’re ready to hand over our interests on a silver platter! As CEO of the company, this is a gross negligence of duty! You must take full responsibility for the failure of this project partnership!”

Thaddeus, his eyes dark and deep like fallen stars, carried a gravelly tone, “Is that the only thing I’m responsible for?”

Frederic was taken aback, “What?”

“I publicly opposed your plans to make an alliance through marriage with the Fairhaven Group. Or have you forgotten already, in the course of a single night?”

The man’s cold gaze was daunting, “Didn’t you also say that if I didn’t get engaged to Edith, I should pack up and leave the Abernathy Group? Now, seeing the Fairhaven Group in turmoil and the blunders of Edith’s, who exposed to everyone the fact that Evadne had lost my child, showing her true vile colors, stirring up trouble, you’re scared of getting caught in the backlash, so now you’re silent about the alliance?”

Mr. Murray was shaken to the core, his back soaked with cold sweat.

How could this be possible?! The miscarriage of Mrs. Abernathy was almost a secret; how did Edith come to know of it?!

“Thaddeus!” Frederic was so furious with his son’s airing of dirty laundry; he was on the verge of a stroke!

“An alliance?! With that wretched girl from the Fairhaven family?!”

Upon Hamilton heard this, his grip on the mug tightened; his whole body trembled with rage, “Frederic! Have you lost your mind?! You cast aside the loyal and dutiful Ilana for Thaddeus to marry that scheming brat?! It was she who revealed the miscarriage to drive a wedge between Thaddeus and Ilana! Such malevolence and you want Thaddeus to marry her?! Why don’t you marry her yourself!”

“Dad!”

“Your judgment may be clouded, and that’s your own disgrace, but don’t you dare drag my grandson down the same path!”

The old man’s eyes–blazed with fury, his gaze as sharp as ever despite his age, “And another thing, don’t you dare blame the loss of that project on my grandson or tarnish llana’s reputation! I may not have attended this year’s horse racing event, but I know exactly what went down! The Ashbourne family’s horse was sabotaged by someone from the Fairhaven family, but even so, Ilana clinched first place with flying colors! She earned her opportunity through her own hard work, not something you can smear with a few choice words!”

“Grandpa.” Thaddeus’s voice choked with emotion, his eyes brimming with tears.

Grandpa was still as caring, trusting, and supportive of Evadne as he had always been. It was the same three years ago, and nothing had changed.

But what about him? Grandpa had always urged him to treat Evadne well, told him more than once that she was a rare find, and not to let her slip away. And what had he done?

He had ruined everything, all of it, completely botched.

Abernathy family owes Illana.

forehead swollen in a comical lump, “Chad’s health is precarious, on medication year–round, and the doctors say his chances of fathering children are practically zero! And now you let Evadne into the family, do you want the Abernathy line to end, for the company to have no heir?!”

violently, “What do you

mean?”

Abernathy

was being massacred all

could this be?” Hamilton was completely dumbfounded, his heart

Abernathy family suffer for it?! It’s her bad luck;

like that!”

Mr. Murray, drenched in sweat, burst forward, shouting at the top of his lungs, “That’s not how it is!”

men of the Abernathy Group stood

and steady demeanor, thorough and meticulous in his work. To see

you know something?”

asked urgently, his eyes reddening, “You know something,

guilty tears streaming down his face. Then,

“Murray!”

“Mr. Murray!”

his thigh, “Get up! If you’ve got something to say, just say it. What in the

help Mr. Murray up, but

I should have told everything sooner. If I had spoken up, Ms. Ashbourne and

he spoke, “That year, when Ms. Ashbourne

violently, “What are

happened? How

normally so articulate; what’s with the stuttering now? Out with it!”

It was because of

can no longer keep

“The accident?”

remembering. Two years ago, no, it must

was not by his side tending to him but had said she had family

Hamilton also realized the connection instantly.

heavily, his voice choked with emotion, “Three years ago on Christmas, Mr. Frederic Abernathy and Mr. Thaddeus Abernathy, along with the young ladies, were all away from Elmsworth. Only Ms. Ashbourne braved the

a sudden tightness in his chest, the air around him thinning, breathing becoming

Fiona Abernathy, so Ms. Ashbourne drove with you. Later, you went to the beach where you used to date Mrs. Fiona Abernathy when you were young. It was supposed to

was also injured. After struggling to get you to the hospital, she started

to be so silly?!” Hamilton lamented, shaking his head

a dull, thorny knife was grinding his

hearing this, even Frederic, cold as he often was, furrowed his brow

and Mr. Thaddeus Abernathy, so she begged me to keep her secret. I thought of your serious injuries and didn’t want to shock you. And I worried about how the news of Ms. Ashbourne’s infertility would affect her standing within the Abernathy