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.
had been so blind, having spent twenty years married to
struck in the back of the head with a sledgehammer, his mind buzzing
anything like this. It was supposed to be a clear–cut case of murder for hire, so how
then he
This witness is irrelevant to
she’s a cultured, high–character society lady But my witness here can attest that the
“Then let the
seeing stars from rage.
at Thaddeus, who sat with a stern dignity in the audience, remembering the dread his presence inspired. She dared not hold back any longer,
she was nothing more than Mr. Abernathy’s mistress. Only because she carried the heir to the Abernathy empire
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
a thundercloud. He wished he could send
by his side, instead entangling himself with such
what was taken from another as her own. Impenetrable shamelessness. No wonder she
If she truly were content, my mother would not have
his chest, though his eyes remained as cold as a lake frozen over, “As for Frederic, she can
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