His Ex Wife Is A Billionaire

Chapter 140

“Jason, what’s up with you?” Evadne looked puzzled and surprised.

She always thought highly of Jason, but there he was looking all beat up and lost, eyes bloodshot, lips pale as a sheet, like a puppy left homeless in a downpour.

“Jason, are you here because of Elspeth?”

Ca**ius came up to Evadne, his steps steady, his eyes soft, as he wiped his handsome hands with a pristine white silk cloth.

Evadne glanced at him and saw specks of blood on the cloth.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry!” Jason kept apologizing, bowing deeply to them.

Just as Evadne was puzzled, Arnold gave her a buzz.

“Arnold?”

“Sis, Elspeth just left my place.”

Arnold’s voice was heavy with resignation, seemingly self–blaming as he said, “My team and I have been gathering evidence on Elspeth’s abuse of power and bribery, but she’s way ahead of us, shifting all blame to Earl. Frederic got her a really slick lawyer, Cedric Dempsey. That guy is ruthless; he knows exactly how to exploit legal loopholes. My evidence fell short, so I had to let Elspeth go.”

“It’s alright, Arnold, you’ve done your best. And we hit our target, as long as we’ve got the Westguard project under our belt. Everything else, we can take it slow.”

Evadne was calm, but those around her were all fuming as they were itching to give Elspeth a good thrashing.

Elspeth was no saint, but Evadne knew that they could take their time dealing with that woman.

J

At that point, Frederic was still head over heels for Elspeth, he would surely go all out to help her. Escalating the conflict between two big conglomerates for a single project, wasting resources, just wasn’t worth it at that time.

bit, this has nothing to do with him. He cares too much about your feelings, afraid that

“I got it.”

the full picture of what had happened, her

to take all the blame,” Jason’s eyes were red as he was ashamed and couldn’t accept that his family had done such

case, he was so mad that he stormed into Cedric’s law firm and had a big blowout

for Chairman Emeric’s help, hiring our dad as a legal advisor for the conglomerate, protecting us, how could our parents have had a

his brother for over twenty years, but this time, for Evadne, he went

a case I can handle, and the terms are right, I’ll take it, whether it’s the Abernathy group or the Ashbourne group, it simply doesn’t matter to me! You, on the other hand, our parents worked hard to raise you, provided you with an elite education, poured so much effort into you, all so you can do big things! Not so you can cater

stung Jason

given Evadne his whole heart,

really couldn’t face Ms.

what are

on his trembling shoulders, gently shaking him, “Don’t blame yourself, and don’t pick a fight with your family over this. Elspeth is an insignificant baddie; how could she possibly affect our families‘ relationship? Affect

voice choked, filled

on Elspeth’s case, I totally understand this, and I absolutely have no

good enough deal, then Mr. Cedric has the right to stick to his professional ethics and take on the Abernathy group’s case. If the Ashbourne group needs legal

lowered his head,

in the car, Ca**ius took Evadne’s hand, gently stroking her palm and asking,

illegitimate daughter. But first, I need to make my

intelligence, narrowing slightly, “George said that only Acacia’s mother Una knows where the child is, so let’s have Una help us find our way. That way, we won’t have

what about Acacia? What’s your

mad before

and she also inquired, “Isn’t she about to get engaged to Thaddeus? How can we make her fall from grace if she isn’t standing on

marbles,” Ca**ius

blind as a bat for a while now. No matter, I’ve found

found the photo of Avery and then she had snapped. “Here, check out this guy, do you recognize him? I

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Then you should

he kept his identity a mystery. The kicker is, he knows

piqued as she recalled

man’s desire for