His Ex Wife Is A Billionaire

Chapter 457

The three others stood agape.

“Thaddeus, it’s been twenty years, where could you get the evidence?!” Evadne seized the man’s hand.

Thaddeus interlaced his fingers with hers, his voice hoarse and deep, “Remember when I told you I went to track down that maid who used to work for my mom?”

The woman nodded obediently.

“People often have a premonition when disaster looms. Before Elspeth met her end; the maid seemed to sense danger. Gordon sent someone caught her in time, and then, well, I had to resort to certain measures.”

Thaddeus took a deep breath and continued, “In a state of sheer panic, to save her son, she revealed some truths, things not even mentioned in that recording, the real truth.”

He was innately good–hearted. If it hadn’t been a dire necessity, why would he use a kid’s life as a leverage to coerce, to threaten, to become a merciless fiend?

Evadne believed that even if the maid had remained obstinate, Thaddeus would not have harmed her son. He couldn’t do it. If he had, how would he be any different from Avery?

“My mom was killed by Elspeth. It was Elspeth who poisoned her with her own hands,” Thaddeus’s eyes were rimmed with red, struggling to contain the surging waves of hatred, making his hand, held tightly by Evadne, as cold as a block of ice.

“Poisoned with her own hands?!” Arnold and Aaron were so shocked their faces stiffened.

Gordon swayed as if he had been struck by a heavy blow! Evadne’s throat tightened, the air seemed thin, and her chest felt crushed by a massive stone.

Anyone else would have gone mad, but because Thaddeus had not, the calmer he remained, the more her heart ached.

“Mr. Abernathy, what in the world happened then?” Aaron pressed urgently.

“The maid confessed that she had indeed followed Elspeth’s orders to switch out my mom’s depression medication, but she replaced it with harmless vitamins that wouldn’t be fatal. However, during that time, maybe Elspeth sensed my mom and Frederic’s relationship thawing. Afraid of complications, she switched the harmless pills with a poison. Taken in small doses daily, it would accumulate and cause a heart attack, sudden death,” Thad’s broad shoulders trembled as he uttered each word, each syllable laced with ice and bone–deep hatred.

Tears welled up in Evadne’s eyes, her soft hand gently stroking his back.

“How did the maid know all these details?” Arnold, the prosecutor, eager for information, questioned.

“She saw it.”

she realized Elspeth would sneak back

heart failure, the maid

said because she was in charge of the medication; she made the switch, and she would have to

growing paler, “But on the day of the incident, there was an unexpected turn. My mom, who had been walking in the garden, realized she

the act of switching the

eavesdropped. She was

on all that lost sleep behind

heated argument between my mom and Elspeth. She mentioned that ever since my mom joined the Abernathy family, she seemed to lose all sense of emotion. That was the first time she ever saw her so enraged, it even scared the

Evadne watched

was sudden silence in the room and right after that,

eyes bloodshot, nostrils flaring with each breath. His hand,

he realized the sound of a body hitting the ground from a height was so

pain and shadow of that glance would burden him for life, nearly crushing him time and again. “Stop, Thaddeus, please

as tightly as she could, wishing their hearts and pulses could intertwine. He hadn’t

hatred, I haven’t lost my mind to it; I haven’t fallen

cleared, softened, as he wiped the small pearls from her cheeks with his rough fingertips, “Most importantly, it’s because you’re by my side, Evadne. You don’t know how much you mean to me. You’ve given me tremendous courage. Without it, I might

moment, Arnold and Aaron saw the truth. Cassius was right. Evadne

and asked, “The maid heard the argument die down in the room just about the same time you heard Elspeth fall from the balcony. Could that be indirect proof that her fall has something to do with

she found out that her medication

chimed in with his own analysis, “While we lack concrete evidence, the truth might just be as

my mom fell, Elspeth came rushing out of the room in a panic, bumping into her. At that moment, Elspeth threatened the maid to keep silent, giving her a hefty sum of hush money so she’d never have to serve the Abernathy family again. The maid said it wasn’t

key witness; you must protect her at all costs,”

let her out. Then, collect

that Evadne understood why Thaddeus didn’t arrest Elspeth on charges like incitement to murder. Because he only got one shot, and it had to count. If he was not certain, he

Evadne asked, her

were deepened, his hand snaking around her waist, leaning in close as his lips grazed her

the Velvet Haven was a scene of

blood–curdling screams within, which were enough to make Harvey physically ill, though Elsie

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only other

I resemble Evadne; am I not even allowed my

anything offensive, did I?” Before

his white silk shirt splattered with blood, his face, neck, and elegant throat stained crimson. He breathed heavily, blood mingling with sweat down his chiseled face, his eyes fierce and vengeful, yet satisfied