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.”

mom’s fall, she realized Elspeth would sneak

failure, the maid handling her medication would have been taken away for

the maid said because she was in charge of the medication; she made the switch,

back, so she could only continue down that dark path.” Thaddeus paused, his handsome face growing paler, “But on the day of

in the act of switching the

was so tense during

on all that lost sleep behind

the Abernathy family, she seemed to lose all sense

then?” Evadne watched him

sudden silence in the room

nostrils flaring with each breath. His hand, drenched in sweat and clasped

haunting image of his mother plunging to her death. For the first time, he realized the sound of a body hitting the ground from a height was so muffled, so heavy. He could even clearly hear the sound of bones

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

and pulses could intertwine. He hadn’t shed a tear, yet she couldn’t help

lost my mind to it; I

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

and Aaron saw the truth.

the couple had calmed down, Aaron furrowed his brow 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

mom and Mr. Abernathy had been on better terms, and she was furious when she found out that her medication had been tampered with Elspeth. Those don’t seem like

with his own analysis, “While we lack concrete evidence, the truth might just be as we suspect. It’s highly

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

protect her at all

her out. Then, collect more evidence as quickly as possible to prosecute Elspeth

then 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.

physical evidence?” Evadne asked, her eyes sparkling with

hand snaking around her waist, leaning in close as his lips grazed her ear, “Later, behind closed doors, I’ll tell you all

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not even batting an eyelid. The only other woman I’ve seen with nerves

that I resemble Evadne; am I not even allowed my

I didn’t say anything offensive, did I?” Before Harvey’s voice trailed off, the

blood, his face, neck, and elegant throat stained crimson. He breathed heavily, blood mingling with sweat down his chiseled