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

in the back of the head with a sledgehammer, his mind

seen anything like this. It was supposed to be a clear–cut case of murder for hire, so how had Thaddeus’s mother’s case gotten

then he would be dragged through the mud

witness is irrelevant to the case at hand, please

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

slight nod, “Then let

seeing stars

stern dignity in the audience, remembering the dread his presence inspired. She dared not hold back any longer, spilling

Abernathy’s mistress. Only because she carried the heir to the Abernathy empire was she temporarily

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

complexion turned as dark as a thundercloud. He wished he could send someone

oh why, had he not cherished the gentle and virtuous Cynthia by his side,

head in disdain. “To claim what was taken from another as her

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

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

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