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.
he had been so blind,
been struck in the back of the
In his decade–plus career, he had never seen anything like this. It was supposed to
then he would
in desperation, “Your Honor! This witness is irrelevant to the case at
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
with a slight nod, “Then let the defense
stars
in the audience, remembering the dread his presence inspired. She dared not hold back
was nothing more than Mr. Abernathy’s mistress. Only because she carried the heir to the Abernathy empire
in anger, “Who are you calling a mistress? Who? I’m not a mistress. I am the legitimate chairwoman of the Abernathy Group! I
He wished he could send someone to
by his side, instead entangling himself
madwoman, truly 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
were content, my mother would not have met such
cold as a lake frozen over, “As for Frederic,
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