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.

so blind, having spent

back of the head

was supposed to

killer, then he would be dragged through the mud too!

in desperation, “Your Honor! This witness is irrelevant to the case at hand,

that Elspeth couldn’t possibly be 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. Thus, this witness is indeed relevant to the case, and her testimony

“Then let the

stars from

with a stern dignity in the audience, remembering the dread his presence inspired. She

because she carried the heir to the Abernathy empire was she temporarily welcomed into the Abernathy fold, but Mr.

and she roared in anger, “Who are you calling a mistress? Who? I’m not a mistress. I am the legitimate chairwoman of the

as dark as a thundercloud. He

gentle and virtuous Cynthia by his side, instead entangling himself with such a greedy,

her head in disdain. “To claim what was taken from another as her own. Impenetrable shamelessness. No wonder she could cling to their house,

were content,

chest, though his eyes remained as cold as a lake frozen over,

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