His Ex-Wife Is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus) novel Chapter 457

The three others stood agape.

"Thaddeus, it's been twenty years, where could you get the evidence?!" Evadne seized the man's hand.

Thaddeus interlaced his fingers with hers, his voice hoarse and deep, "Remember when I told you I went to track down that maid who used to work for my mom?"

The woman nodded obediently.

"People often have a premonition when disaster looms. Before Elspeth met her end, the maid seemed to sense danger. Gordon sent someone caught her in time, and then, well, I had to resort to certain measures."

Thaddeus took a deep breath and continued, "In a state of sheer panic, to save her son, she revealed some truths, things not even mentioned in that recording, the real truth."

He was innately good-hearted. If it hadn't been a dire necessity, why would he use a kid's life as a leverage to coerce, to threaten, to become a merciless fiend?

Evadne believed that even if the maid had remained obstinate, Thaddeus would not have harmed her son. He couldn't do it. If he had, how would he be any different from Avery?

"My mom was killed by Elspeth. It was Elspeth who poisoned her with her own hands," Thaddeus's eyes were rimmed with red, struggling to contain the surging waves of hatred, making his hand, held tightly by Evadne, as cold as a block of ice.

"Poisoned with her own hands?!" Arnold and Aaron were so shocked their faces stiffened.

Gordon swayed as if he had been struck by a heavy blow! Evadne's throat tightened, the air seemed thin, and her chest felt crushed by a massive stone.

Anyone else would have gone mad, but because Thaddeus had not, the calmer he remained, the more her heart ached.

"Mr. Abernathy, what in the world happened then?" Aaron pressed urgently.

"The maid confessed that she had indeed followed Elspeth's orders to switch out my mom's depression medication, but she replaced it with harmless vitamins that wouldn't be fatal. However, during that time, maybe Elspeth sensed my mom and Frederic's relationship thawing. Afraid of complications, she switched the harmless pills with a poison. Taken in small doses daily, it would accumulate and cause a heart attack, sudden death," Thad's broad shoulders trembled as he uttered each word, each syllable laced with ice and bone-deep hatred.

Tears welled up in Evadne's eyes, her soft hand gently stroking his back.

"How did the maid know all these details?" Arnold， the prosecutor, eager for information, questioned.

"She saw it."

Thaddeus clenched Evadne's hand as if only through this tangible touch could he remain composed, "She said, two days before my mom's fall, she realized Elspeth would sneak back in to switch the pills again after she had done so, without ever mentioning it to her, and she dared not ask."

"That's because, if your mom had indeed died of heart failure, the maid handling her medication would have been taken away for investigation."

Evadne's mind raced with cold logic, "By then it wouldn't matter what the maid said because she was in charge of the medication; she made the switch, and she would have to bear the blame alone."

"She knew this at the time. But she was already in too deep with no turning back, so she could only continue down that dark path."

Thaddeus paused, his handsome face growing paler, "But on the day of the incident, there was an unexpected turn. My mom, who had been walking in the garden, realized she had forgotten her camera and went back to her room."

"And then she caught Elspeth in the act of switching the medication?" Evadne's heart sank drastically.

He nodded solemnly, "The maid, hiding just outside the room, eavesdropped. She was so tense during that time, on edge, and couldn't sleep a wink."

"Hmph! She can catch up on all that lost sleep behind bars!" Aaron snarled through clenched teeth.

"The maid said she couldn't see inside but heard a heated argument between my mom and Elspeth. She mentioned that ever since my mom joined the Abernathy family, she seemed to lose all sense of emotion. That was the first time she ever saw her so enraged, it even scared the maid."

"And then?" Evadne watched him intently.

"Then, there was sudden silence in the room and right after that, I witnessed..."

Thaddeus couldn't continue, his chest heaving, his eyes bloodshot, nostrils flaring with each breath. His hand, drenched in sweat and clasped by Evadne, shook uncontrollably.

Before him was the haunting image of his mother plunging to her death. For the first time, he realized the sound of a body hitting the ground from a height was so muffled, so heavy. He could even clearly hear the sound of bones shattering.

He only looked once, but the pain and shadow of that glance would burden him for life, nearly crushing him time and again.

"Stop, Thaddeus, please stop."

Evadne embraced him, as tightly as she could, wishing their hearts and pulses could intertwine. He hadn't shed a tear, yet she couldn't help but let her own fall freely, dampening his white shirt.

"It's okay. Despite all my hatred, I haven't lost my mind to it; I haven't fallen apart."

Thaddeus's eyes cleared, softened, as he wiped the small pearls from her cheeks with his rough fingertips, "Most importantly, it's because you're by my side, Evadne. You don't know how much you mean to me. You've given me tremendous courage. Without it, I might have sunk into despair."

In that moment, Arnold and Aaron saw the truth. Cassius was right. Evadne was Thaddeus's lifeblood.