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.”

days before my mom’s fall, she realized Elspeth would sneak

indeed died of heart failure, the maid

“By then it wouldn’t matter what the maid said because she was in charge of the medication; she made the

path.” Thaddeus paused, his handsome face growing paler, “But on the day of the incident, there was an unexpected turn. My mom, who had been walking in

act of switching the medication?”

the room, eavesdropped. She was so tense

on all that lost sleep behind bars!” Aaron snarled through

the Abernathy family, she seemed to lose all sense of emotion. That was the first time she ever saw

Evadne watched him

silence in the

his eyes bloodshot, nostrils flaring with each breath.

to her death. For the first time, he realized the sound of a

looked once, but the pain and shadow of that glance would burden him for life, nearly crushing him

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

Despite all my hatred, I haven’t lost my mind

“Most importantly, it’s because you’re by my side, Evadne. You don’t

saw the truth. Cassius

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 her fall has something to do with Elspeth? After all, she was

and she was furious when she found out that her medication had been tampered

we lack concrete evidence, the truth might just be as we suspect. It’s highly likely

of hush money so she’d never have to serve the Abernathy family again. The maid said it wasn’t about the money; she was more afraid of Elspeth’s revenge, so she took the money and stayed quiet,” Thaddeus wrapped

you must protect her at all costs,” Aaron

keep her detained and not let her out. Then, collect more evidence as quickly as possible to prosecute Elspeth for murder!” Arnold’s

understood why Thaddeus didn’t arrest Elspeth on charges like incitement to murder. Because he only got one shot,

Evadne asked,

as his

the Velvet Haven was a

within, which were enough to

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other woman I’ve seen with

enough that I resemble Evadne; am I not even allowed my own

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

blood mingling with sweat down his