Chapter 582


    Chapter 582


    As Thaddeus sat in the crowded courtroom, he felt his heart wrench with the same agony as when he’d


    first heard Ynda’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 withments, and the number of viewers, shares,


    andments 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 socialdder


    through pregnancy. So, the real bastard was Elspeth’s child!]


    [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 Mari 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


    onlinements.


    Seeing herself dragged through the mud because of her birth mother, while Mari, 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 Ynda and shouted, their rage in eerie sync, “Ynda! 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.


    Ynda’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.


    “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 surveince, no different than being in prison. And you robbed


    me of my life in Elmsworth.”


    As Ynda poured out her heart, it was hard not to believe her.


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    Elspeth’s lips twitched, trying to interject, but Ynda didn’t give her the chance and dropped 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.”


    Ynda 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 zed 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 nowplicit with Elspeth’s deeds.


    No matter what, he couldn’t let this ship sink, he was in it with Elspeth until the bitter end.