His Ex Wife Is A Billionaire

Chapter 567

Evadne watched as Thaddeus‘ face darkened, like a bright moon plummeting into a chilly, secluded pond.

Beneath his crisp suit, his broad shoulders trembled ever so slightly, his eyes reddened with suppressed rage. He seemed like a volcano on the verge of eruption, his fierce emotions ready to spill over at any moment.

Evadne squeezed his hand, silently urging him to keep his cool.

It wasn’t that she fancied herself a saint or wanted to see some trite, happy–family drama unfold. If the timing was right, she’d gladly step in and give Frederic a piece of her mind on behalf of her partner.

But having a spat in a graveyard, especially in front of Thaddeus‘ late mother, was not only undignified but also somewhat disrespectful to the departed.

It would only upset Cynthia more.

“I sure didn’t expect you to visit your mother today. You should’ve told me earlier; we could’ve come together.”

Frederic’s voice carried the weight of paternal authority, his tone relatively mild. “I think that’s a sight your mother would’ve wanted to see.”

“A sight my mother wanted to see?”

Thaddeus stared at him coldly, his voice laced with scorn and resentment. “Are you joking with me, Frederic?”

“Thaddeus, what are you saying?” Frederic’s brows knitted in disapproval.-

“As her husband, you neglected her when she was alive and suffering from severe depression. After she passed, you didn’t even bother to send someone to clean her grave. In twenty years, you’ve visited her less than the groundskeepers here. And now you have the audacity to say she wanted to see you?”

Thaddeus shook his head in disbelief, his laughter tinged with fury. “Frederic, even if my mother was once your wife, even if she loved you, your shamelessness should have a limit!”

Evadne’s heart raced with anxiety. Were they going to come to blows?

Should she intervene?

But Thaddeus was voicing her own thoughts, and she didn’t want to stop him. She thought he should lay into his father even more, to wake up the arrogant, shameless old man!

Let them fight. She could take on the bodyguards with a single punch!

Frederic, seething with rage, his face reddening visibly, had his dignity hanging by a thread.

Dennis and the bodyguards stood silent, sweating bullets for Thaddeus.

“Dennis, hand me the flowers.” With outsiders present, Frederic tried to maintain decorum, suppressing his rage with an icy command.

over a bunch of white chrysanthemums with due reverence.

them, his expression somber, and moved

Thaddeus‘ imposing form blocked his path, snatching the bouquet

Everyone shuddered.

eyes bulged with fury. “Thaddeus! What are you

nor my mother welcome you here.”

man’s face, each word deliberate. “She doesn’t need your hollow sympathies, and you have no right to stand before

and crushed the chrysanthemums under

the slums back to the Abernathy family under tremendous pressure? If it weren’t for me, you both would have perished in that filthy place! Have you forgotten how sick your mother was? She couldn’t afford medical treatment, couldn’t even feed you! If not for

these words, her

Frederic wasn’t speaking as a husband or a father to his

like a condescending philanthropist,

not from the same world. It was I who mercifully pulled you from the squalid slums; it was I who allowed you the fortune

sense of superiority was even

done you the favor of raising you! Without me, where would you be? How dare you be so disrespectful, so

a girl, would you have gone to such lengths to bring me back to the Abernathy family? If not for that, would you even remember that a poor woman carrying your child

chilling sneer, his mocking tone cutting deep. “I owe my success to my grandfather’s

pretense of control, his arm swinging towards Thaddeus‘ face in a fit of rage.

stunning eyes flashing

as crowd gasped-

felt a sharp pain in his wrist, his face

stepped in front of Thaddeus, grabbing Frederic’s wrist and tightening her grip as if to

Aberna Dennis and bodyguards, pale with fear, rushed

impassive as the cool moonlight, not blinking

with the fairer sex was nowhere to be found on her, she was bristling like a cornered

to me!” Thaddeus stood behind her, an imposing

warning left him, and it froze the challengers in their tracks, none daring to test the mettle of this heir apparent. “Ms. Evadne, I’m disciplining my own son. What business is

cool and distant, her lips curled slightly, “To you, I

pounding wild like a horse galloping across the plains.

she didn’t use that term just to

and astute. She knew full well what “family” meant, didn’t she?

be the first to stop you. If you won’t cherish him,

To witness such violence in her presence, it’s unbecoming for someone who prides themselves as a leader of the Abernathy Group, a

her light, dismissive tone, she struck at the heart of the matter.