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

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

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

This witness is irrelevant to the case

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 can attest that the defense’s argument is nothing but a

with a slight nod, “Then let the

was seeing stars from rage.

the dread his

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

anger, “Who are you calling a mistress? Who? I’m not a mistress. I am the legitimate chairwoman of the Abernathy Group!

as dark as a thundercloud. He wished he could

the gentle and virtuous Cynthia by his side, instead entangling himself with such a

disdain. “To claim what was taken from another as her own. Impenetrable

were content, my mother would not

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

Thaddeus’s resolute profile, her emotions

to Thaddeus’s parents, her situation

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

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