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.
that he had been so blind, having spent twenty
like he’d been struck in the back of
like this. It was supposed to be a
was a killer, then he would be dragged through the mud
in desperation, “Your Honor! This witness is irrelevant to the
lady But my witness here can attest that the defense’s argument is nothing but a cunning ploy to exonerate their client. Thus, this
relented with a slight nod, “Then let the defense proceed with
stars
in the audience, remembering the dread his presence
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
like 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
dark as a thundercloud. He wished he could send
he not cherished the gentle and virtuous Cynthia by his side, instead entangling himself with such
shaking her head in disdain. “To claim what was taken from another as her own. Impenetrable shamelessness. No wonder she could cling to their house,
was but a ruse. If she truly were content, my mother would not
frozen over, “As for
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