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

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

irrelevant to the case at hand, please dismiss her right to

the killer because she’s a cultured, high–character society lady But my witness here can attest that the defense’s argument

relented with a slight nod, “Then let the defense proceed with

was seeing stars from rage.

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

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. Hamilton

mistress? Who? I’m not a mistress. I am the legitimate chairwoman of the Abernathy Group!

complexion turned as dark as a thundercloud. He

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

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 Frederic

truly were content, my mother would not have met such a tragic

eyes remained as cold as a lake frozen over, “As for Frederic, she can have him. Such a deceitful, insincere man does not deserve my mother’s love.”

profile, her emotions a tangled

Thaddeus’s parents, her situation was undoubtedly

be sure how much of Emeric’s affections for her mother were genuine–if his love were as

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

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