Chapter 581

The courtroom erupted into chaos. The nation was in shock.

Frederic’s face drained of color as if the blood had been siphoned from his veins. He leapt from his chair as if it had burst into flames, standing abruptly without a care for decorum, staring in disbelief at Elspeth.

Cynthia? Hadn’t she taken her own life because of severe depression? How had it turned into murder?

How could the murderer be Elspeth, the woman who had shared his bed for twenty years?

“I do it!” Elspeth sobbed, shaking her head as she locked eyes with him.

Thaddeus’s icy gaze slid inch by inch onto Frederic’s pale, plaster–like face. He couldn’t help but let out a bone–chilling laugh from the deepest, most bitter part of his chest.

Even now, he didn’t see the slightest hint of sorrow for his mother on this callous man’s face. What Frederic felt was not disbelief out of love for Elspeth.

couldn’t accept that he had been so blind, having spent twenty years married to a murderer!

struck in the back of the head with a sledgehammer, his mind buzzing

he had never seen anything like this. It was supposed to be a

he would be dragged through the mud too!

irrelevant to the

the killer because she’s a cultured, high–character society lady But my witness here can attest that the defense’s argument is nothing but a cunning ploy to exonerate their client.

nod, “Then let the defense proceed with their questioning

was seeing stars

the audience, remembering the dread his presence inspired. She dared not hold back any longer, spilling the secrets that had been hidden for years.

ordered by Mr. Abernathy to attend to Elspeth’s daily needs, while she was nothing more than Mr. Abernathy’s mistress. Only because she carried the heir to the Abernathy empire was she temporarily welcomed into the

a mark of shame, and she roared in anger, “Who are you calling a mistress? Who? I’m not a mistress. I am the legitimate chairwoman of the Abernathy Group! I am Mr. Abernathy’s wife! It was Cynthia who was the mistress! She stole my husband!”

as dark as a thundercloud. He wished he could send

gentle and virtuous Cynthia by his side,

observed Elspeth’s distorted face, shaking her head in disdain. “To claim what was taken from another as her

ruse. If she truly were content, my mother would not have met

chest, though his eyes remained as cold as a lake frozen over, “As for Frederic, she can have him. Such a deceitful, insincere man does not

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