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Chapter 582
As Thaddeus sat in the crowded courtroom, he felt his heart wrench with the same agony
as when he’d first heard Yolanda’s testimony. Despite the familiarity of her words, the pain
was as raw as ever.
“Fentanyl, an anesthetic banned for its lethal potential. Just a little too much, and it’s
fatal.” Evadne’s eyes, red and filled with tears of rage, spoke volumes. She could
empathize deeply with Thaddeus’s torment,
The courtroom was plunged into a stunned silence, punctuated by murmurs and sighs
from the spectators.
Meanwhile, the court’s live stream was flooded with comments, and the number of
viewers, shares, and comments had reached an all–time high in the court’s online history.
[Elspeth had blood on her hands? Was she an heiress or a bloodthirsty demon?]
[Thaddeus wasn’t the illegitimate child after all! His mother had joined the Abernathy
family after Mr. Abernathy’s first wife passed away. Elspeth was nothing but a mistress
who climbed the social ladder through pregnancy. So, the real bastard was Elspeth’s
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[The shameless wretch! To secure her position, she poisoned Mr. Thaddeus’s mother! Even
a dog wouldn’t touch her heart!]
[Elspeth had two daughters, and Marilla was born after Elspeth was made official. That
meant Glynnis was the true illegitimate child! With such a scandalous past, how could she
be so arrogant? If it were me, I’d never be able to show my face again!]
Meanwhile, Glynnis paced anxiously in the courthouse bathroom, smoking and scrolling
through the online comments.
Seeing herself dragged through the mud because of her birth mother, while Marilla, who
came from the same womb, remained unscathed, Glynnis was enraged. She inherited
Elspeth’s madness and screamed her lungs out in the deserted bathroom.
On the stand, Elspeth pointed at Yolanda and shouted, their rage in eerie sync, “Yolanda!
You’re spouting nonsense! I never poisoned Cynthia! I didn’t tell you to switch her meds!
She died from depression, from her own doing, not mine! How much did they pay you,
what did they promise you? To drag you out of Elmsworth where you haven’t been seen
for twenty years, just to throw stones at me at this critical moment?”
Her venomous gaze was fixed on Thaddeus as if she was ready to burst out of her cage
and bite him at any moment.
Yolanda’s defection to Thaddeus’s side wasn’t just out of fear of his immense power but
also because she had been secretly controlled and watched by Elspeth for twenty long
years. She had had enough and was hysterically recounting her ordeal.
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“If I’m lying, may lightning strike me! Everything I’ve said is the truth! You forced me to
resign from Windermere Estate because you were afraid I’d spill your secrets. And you
weren’t content with that. You banished me to the backwater town of R City, where I’ve
been watched and threatened for twenty years! I’ve lived every day under your
surveillance, no different than being in prison. And you robbed me of my life in
Elmsworth.”
As Yolanda poured out her heart, it was hard not to believe her.
Elspeth’s lips twitched, trying to interject, but Yolanda didn’t give her the chance and
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmdropped another bombshell, “You sneaked into Cynthia’s room to switch the medication
but didn’t expect to be caught red–handed by Cynthia herself! I saw it all, hiding at the
stairwell! And because of that, you threatened me, saying if I breathed a word, my family
would disappear from Elmsworth!”
Frederic’s head was ringing, and the vision of Elspeth in front of him became distorted,
unrecognizable.
He was shocked, all of these events had unfolded under his own roof, and he was only
finding out now.
“At that time. I clearly heard a thud from Cynthia’s room, and the fierce argument that
followed.”
Yolanda broke into tears, “Then, Cynthia fell, and you ran out of her room in a panic. If it
wasn’t you who killed her, then who?”
“It’s hes, all lies! She jumped herself! I’m the witness; I saw her leap with my own eyes!”
Elspeth’s eyes blazed with a furious red but she hadn’t lost her sense to know that without
concrete evidence from so long ago, she could deny everything and the truth would never
surface.
Cedric, after hearing the testimony, had a clear picture in his mind.
He was now complicit with Elspeth’s deeds.
No matter what, he couldn’t let this ship sink, he was in it with Elspeth until the bitter end.
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