Chapter 576

Several yards away, Thaddeus’s gaze was like ice, locking with Frederic’s in a silent standoff.

Rows of black chairs stood between them, like a thicket of brambles fraught with the turbulent whispers of secrets and deceit.

The air pressure in the banquet hall plummeted, leaving Dennis and the manager dumbstruck, their scalps tingling with an inexplicable chill.

“Thaddeus, what are you doing here? What the hell is going on?” Frederic had his suspicions, but anger compelled him to seek confirmation.

“The answer is quite obvious, isn’t it, Mr. Abernathy?”

Clad in a tailored grey suit, Thaddeus stood his ground, his aura of insurmountable pride and cold aloofness pressing down on Frederic–the kind of pressure that made the seasoned corporate mogul struggle to catch his breath.

The scales were tipping. Thaddeus was soon to be the wave that would crush him upon the shore. The intimidation and oppression he felt now surpassed anything he had known in his youth.

For a fleeting moment, he was grateful no outsiders were present to witness their confrontation.

“The reporters you invited? I sent them packing. It seems they’d rather cross you than dare to cross me,” Thaddeus’s lips curled into a frosty smirk.

“You, why would you do this?” Frederic’s blood boiled, his ears ringing with the surge of his pulse. “Is it that bitch from the Ashbourne family pulling your strings? Have you truly forsaken your own family’s dignity and reputation for her, not seeing she’s playing you for a fool?”

Thaddeus’s handsome visage darkened, a tempest swirling in his eyes, “My actions are my own, and they are unrelated to Evadne. I will not allow you to insult the woman I am to marry.”

Frederic’s pupils constricted in shock!

Dennis and the manager, upon hearing this, were petrified!

“Besides, even if Evadne were toying with me, what of it? If it brings a smile to the face of the one I love, then I welcome it with open arms.”

“Madman, you’re out of your mind!” Frederic, the tycoon at the helm, resorted to the coarsest of language in his fury.

“At least that’s better than you, harboring a criminal, losing all sense of right and wrong,” Thaddeus retorted without a flinch.

Frederic, consumed by wrath, exclaimed, “I am the chairman of the Abernathy Group. Every decision I make is for the benefit of our family and corporation! You selfish fool, engrossed in your romantic delusions, how can you understand the sacrifices I’ve made?”

In Thaddeus’s eyes lay a cold desolation.

He wished he had never existed rather than to learn that his mother’s love and trust had been bestowed upon a man of such callous hypocrisy.

“Tomorrow morning at nine, we’ll settle this in court.”

them on. But no matter what you do, there will only be one outcome. And that is to watch Elspeth pay for her crimes and face the harshest of

lot, Evadne hacked into the hotel’s surveillance system once more, bearing witness to

hesitation, but the increasingly strained father–son relationship posed a significant risk to his position.

his grandfather doted on his,

held power, but should Chad return in good form, the Abernathy Group’s future was

his well–being. After all, it was the empire he

Knock, knock, knock-

from her thoughts, and she quickly closed her laptop, turning to

of coffee in

allowing him to slide in

“Spying again?”

coffee cup with both hands, “Well. I can’t have you getting

of her head, his fingers softly playing

a kiss on his

her waist, his breath warm on her nose, “I owe you one for today. Without you representing the K Group and pressuring the media, my influence alone wouldn’t have kept all the city’s reporters at

me, once this Elspeth matter is settled, try to avoid direct conflicts with

Thaddeus lifted her chin, a smile tugging at his

“I’m serious.”

gets what she deserves, I promise you, as long as Frederic doesn’t target your

phone

checked the screen, his eyes softening with complexity, “Evadne, it’s Grandpa.

Havenbrook Villa, both of

how much Hamilton cherished them.

a critical time–had he learned of Thaddeus’s intervention at the press conference? Had Frederic already complained, summoning them for a reckoning?

Group was also Hamilton’s life’s work. No one wished to

skipped with a mischievous beat. Without a moment’s hesitation, she dashed across the room and enveloped the silver–haired figure of Hamilton

missed

I miss you terribly!” Hamilton’s laughter hadn’t been this

an eyebrow ever so

Evadne as his granddaughter to bridge the gap between them, but now that he knew they were an

soup, how’s that sound?” Evadne knelt on one knee before Hamilton, her face blooming with a

to make extra then, you know Frank loves

no problem!”

gaze shifted to Thaddeus, his eyes suddenly tightening with

shield Thaddeus from any blame, but it seemed

I hear you botched your dad’s

betraying not a hint of fear.

he had slipped off his loafer and flung it at his grandson. Thaddeus caught it mid–air, his expression tight. “Grandpa, let’s talk this out. Don’t get yourself worked up.”

Hamilton scolded, his

defend Thaddeus, but then Hamilton continued, “You should have come to me first before acting on your

“Grandpa, I.”

But he didn’t consult me before going ahead with it, and now I want to give him a piece of

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