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

really was a killer, then he would

“Your Honor! This witness is irrelevant to the case at hand,

couldn’t possibly be the killer because she’s a cultured, high–character society 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

with a slight nod, “Then let the defense proceed

stars from

stern dignity in the audience, remembering the dread his presence inspired. She dared not hold back any longer, spilling

I was ordered by Mr. Abernathy to attend to Elspeth’s daily needs, while she was nothing more than Mr. Abernathy’s mistress. Only because she carried the heir to

a mistress. I am the legitimate chairwoman

as a thundercloud. He wished he could send someone

and virtuous Cynthia by his side, instead entangling

face, shaking her head in disdain. “To claim what was taken from another as her own. Impenetrable shamelessness. No wonder she could cling to their house, accept a loveless union, and follow

content, my mother would not have met such a tragic end.”

a sharp pain in his chest, though his eyes remained as cold as a lake frozen over, “As for Frederic, she can have

Thaddeus’s resolute profile, her emotions a tangled

to Thaddeus’s parents, her situation was undoubtedly

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

once more, reminding in a cold tone, “Defendant, please remain

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