His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

Chatper 581

Chapter 581

The courtroom erupted into chaos. The nation was in shock.

Frederic’s face drained of color as if the blood had been siphoned from his veins. He leapt from his chair as if it had burst into flames, standing abruptly without a care for decorum, staring in disbelief at Elspeth.

Cynthia? Hadn’t she taken her own life because of severe depression? How had it turned into murder?

How could the murderer be Elspeth, the woman who had shared his bed for twenty years?

“I do it!” Elspeth sobbed, shaking her head as she locked eyes with him.

Thaddeus’s icy gaze slid inch by inch onto Frederic’s pale, plaster–like face. He couldn’t help but let out a bone–chilling laugh from the deepest, most bitter part of his chest.

Even now, he didn’t see the slightest hint of sorrow for his mother on this callous man’s face. What Frederic felt was not disbelief out of love for Elspeth.

He simply couldn’t accept that he had been so blind, having spent twenty years married to a murderer!

Cedric felt like he’d been struck in the back of the head with a sledgehammer, his mind buzzing

blindsided him completely. In his decade–plus career, he had never seen anything like this. It was supposed to be a clear–cut case of murder for hire, so

he would be dragged through the

irrelevant to the case at hand,

lady But my witness here can attest that the defense’s argument is nothing but a cunning ploy to exonerate their client. Thus, this witness is indeed

“Then

was seeing stars from

Thaddeus, who sat with a stern dignity in the audience, remembering the dread his presence inspired. She dared

more than Mr. Abernathy’s mistress. Only because

in anger, “Who are you calling a mistress? Who? I’m not a

complexion turned as dark as a thundercloud. He wished he could

oh why, had he not cherished the gentle and virtuous Cynthia by

taken from another

ruse. If she truly were content, my mother would not have

remained as cold as a lake frozen over, “As for Frederic, she can have him. Such a

her emotions

her situation was

even now, she couldn’t be sure how much of Emeric’s affections for her mother were genuine–if his love were as deep as the ocean, wouldn’t it be a lifetime commitment?

cold tone, “Defendant, please remain calm and

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