His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

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

to be a clear–cut case of murder for hire, so how had Thaddeus’s mother’s case gotten

Elspeth really was a killer, then he would be dragged through

This witness is irrelevant to the case at hand, please

couldn’t possibly be the killer because she’s a cultured, high–character society lady But my witness here

nod, “Then let the defense proceed

stars from rage.

a stern dignity in the audience, remembering the dread his presence inspired. She dared not hold back any longer, spilling the secrets that had been hidden

more than Mr. Abernathy’s mistress. Only because she carried the heir

I’m not a mistress. I am the legitimate chairwoman of the Abernathy Group! I am Mr. Abernathy’s wife! It was Cynthia who was the mistress! She

complexion turned as dark as a thundercloud. He

why, had he not cherished the gentle and virtuous Cynthia by his side, instead entangling himself with such a

as she observed Elspeth’s distorted face, shaking her head in disdain. “To claim what was taken from another as her own.

truly were content, my mother would not have met

eyes remained as cold as a lake frozen over, “As for Frederic, she

her emotions

her situation

how much of Emeric’s affections for her mother were genuine–if his love were as deep as the ocean, wouldn’t it be

reminding in a cold tone, “Defendant, please remain calm and refrain