His Ex Wife Is A Billionaire

Chapter 581

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.

been so blind, having spent twenty years

been struck in the back of

him completely. In his decade–plus career, he had never seen anything like this. It was supposed to be a clear–cut case of murder

then he would be

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

Jason struck while the iron was hot, “Your Honor, the defense previously stated 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

nod, “Then let the defense proceed with

was seeing stars from rage.

in the audience, remembering the dread his presence inspired. She dared not hold

nothing more than Mr. Abernathy’s mistress. Only because she carried the heir to the Abernathy empire was she temporarily welcomed into the

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

thundercloud. He wished he

by his side, instead entangling himself with such a greedy, ungrateful

delusional,” Evadne muttered under her breath as she observed Elspeth’s distorted face, 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, accept a loveless

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

cold as a lake frozen over, “As for Frederic, she can have him. Such a deceitful, insincere

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