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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