His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

Evadne pressed her lips together, brows furrowing as she sank into a stifling, oppressive silence.

Elspeth was out of her mind, Chad tormented animals for sport, and then there was Chad's uncle-the Austin family heir-who had murdered his lover in a fashion so brutal it still echoed in whispers...

A chilling thought crept over her, making her blood run cold-

Could it be that everyone in the Austin family was, in some way, unhinged?

Was Chad's mother's mental illness something he inherited too? Was that what drove him to these extremes?

"Is Chad... truly unstable?"

Jason shook his head, stunned, as if the idea wouldn't fit. "But he never seemed off, not at all. He always looked perfectly composed, almost coldly so!"

"That's exactly what scares me most." Alva's voice was raw with worry, her eyes rimmed red. "What if he's just been pretending all these years, hiding his true nature so he could draw close to Mrs. Abernathy? What if he's planning something? What if he means to hurt you?"

animals like that-it points to violent tendencies, a cold-blooded nature, maybe even something sociopathic. But right now, there's no real proof he's suffering from any diagnosed mental disorder," Evadne said, forcing herself to steady her thoughts, her eyes dark

just remembered something my father once

in the day, my father's colleague was assigned to the case when the Austin's eldest son, Mason, was charged with murder. He was sentenced to death at the first trial, but on appeal, his lawyer submitted a psychiatric evaluation that

those evaluations, it could only mean one thing: he was severely

her gaze, lashes casting shadows over her eyes. She didn't

far away from Chad as possible! There's an old saying 'the child is father to the man'-people rarely change at their core! After disappearing for twenty years, do you think he'd

"Oh no! What if he's here to compete with Master Thaddeus for the inheritance? He's unstable enough—what if he turns

was real-Evadne's throat felt tight, as if invisible hands

up at Alva, her eyes shining with

that's the case, then I have even more reason

Jason stared at her, dumbfounded.

play by the rules, then I have no quarrel.

harm, I won't stand by and

her