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

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

really was a killer, then he would be dragged through

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

Ivan hesitated, Jason struck while the iron was hot, “Your Honor, the defense previously stated that Elspeth couldn’t possibly be the killer because she’s a cultured, high–character society lady But my witness here

“Then let the defense

stars

dread his presence inspired. She dared not hold back any longer, spilling the secrets

daily needs, while she was nothing more than Mr. Abernathy’s mistress. Only because she carried the heir to the Abernathy empire was she temporarily welcomed into the Abernathy fold, but Mr.

“Who are you calling a mistress? Who? 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

dark as a thundercloud. He

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

what was taken from another as her own. Impenetrable shamelessness.

subservience was but a ruse. If she truly were content, my mother would not

in his chest, though his eyes remained as cold as a lake frozen over,

profile, her emotions a tangled

to Thaddeus’s parents, her situation

how much of Emeric’s affections for her mother were genuine–if

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