His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

Chapter 579

The courtroom was a stage, and every soul within its walls, save for the actors Frederic had arranged, glared at Elspeth with eyes filled with loathing and condemnation.

Even Glynnis looked upon Elspeth, the mother who had plotted her downfall with contempt and disgust.

Elspeth had come prepared for this trial. She had requested a bathroom break before proceedings to ‘touch up‘ her makeup, ensuring she appeared as a pale and haggard woman tortured by life’s cruel hand. Her innocent facade was so convincing, it was as if she had been born for this role.

Frederic, catching Elspeth’s pitiful, pleading gaze, was momentarily transported back to the days of their early acquaintance. His heart, once sealed in concrete, cracked open once more.

“You witch. You will pay for Erica’s life with your own! I demand justice!” Erica’s grandmother could not contain her fury upon seeing Elspeth, her voice trembling with rage and sorrow, a sight that could soften the hardest of hearts.

Elspeth, with tears brimming in her eyes, shook her head helplessly, looking every bit the innocent victim she pretended to be.

This was a public trial, every moment captured on camera, the courtroom no less than a theater.

And she, she was still the star of the show!

Before the trial, Cedric had sworn to her that the charge of hiring a hitman would not stand. Her only task was to play her part in this carefully orchestrated drama.

“Madam, please, calm down! Just breathe,” Jason urged, rushing to Erica’s grandmother’s side as she turned pale and began to convulse. Evadne stood up, calling for oxygen, “Someone get an oxygen tank quickly! She’s going into shock!”

The officers scrambled to assist, and only after the elderly woman was given oxygen did she begin to stabilize.

The judge, Ivan Dempsey, robed in black, took his seat, his heart heavy at the sight of his siblings entangled in this public spectacle.

“Oh no, the judge is a Dempsey!” Aviana shook Suri frantically, nearly making her sick, “Suri, will he throw Jason under the bus? Are there any good apples in the Dempsey family? I have my doubts!”

Suri patted her hand reassuringly, “Ivan’s record is clean. He’s made it on his own merit, without much influence from his father. I believe he’ll be fair.”

The momentous trial began.

Elspeth Ward, charged with

shedding his secretary persona, stood as a professional lawyer, moving everyone with a powerful narrative of the crime, demanding justice with simple words: “Kill

over the crowd, even Frederic’s paid supporters were visibly moved.

image of Erica’s death, clutched her ears and shut her eyes, as if trapped in a vacuum–sealed jar, her forehead slick

of them. I’m here,” Thaddeus wrapped his arms around her, resting her head against his

I’m

feeling her tears, reassured her with a tender fierceness, “Don’t say that. You are no sinner. Those

concluded, it was the defense’s turn.

Cedric had prepared for her, her brief stint as an

a mere maid? What benefit would her death serve me? Perhaps this is all due to a personal vendetta between Ward and Erica, being of the same social circle

so‘ she paid me to dispose of her! She’s the mastermind; I had no choice but to comply, fearing the wrath of a lady of the Abernathy estate. Even in custody, she sent people to silence me – I

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of your villainy abroad, I would never have employed you!” Elspeth bellowed, the courtroom witnessing a

gave the order, Glynnis was there

turned to Glynnis, her face a mask of shock and pallor.

a mix of shock and suspicion so palpable it might as well have been a physical force.

don’t know anything!” Glynnis stammered, her voice trembling like a leaf in

heart, a cruel wish took root–she hoped Jason would win this lawsuit, would get Elspeth convicted

have lost all humanity, and she

Ivan snapped, rapping his gavel twice. “This is a place of law,

filled with a complex mixture of feelings. They knew that Ward was desperate, throwing Glynnis under the bus, but they also knew that Glynnis wasn’t entirely innocent. However, without hard evidence, pinning anything on that vile woman was going to be difficult. Otherwise, it would be her and her mother standing in the defendants‘ dock

None of them could get away with it.

Elspeth’s cunning, Glynnis was like a parasite without a host, just barely clinging

was locked in a disgraceful verbal brawl with Ward.

of shame so intense that he wished he could vanish then

defendant had made their statements, it was