His Ex-Wife Is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus) novel Chapter 480

Barry suddenly remembered that Jareth had been managing the security forces of the Fairhaven Group for many years.

When he had entrusted the security department to Jareth, it was merely because he thought it wasn't a core power sector of the group. He wanted to give Jareth something to do, but now, his delegation of authority had become a tool to restrain him!

"I've already coordinated with President Ashbourne, and we have this place locked down tight."

Jareth's eyes narrowed, a cold glint within them, "Grandpa Barry, I mean you no harm. As long as Edith pays the price for her actions, confesses and repents for her misdeeds, you're free to walk out of here with your head held high."

"Jareth! How dare you!" Barry's neck veins bulged with anger.

"Who is the one really daring here?!"

Thaddeus's eyes, bloodshot from fury, glared at Barry with the ferocity of a lion awakened from slumber, his gaze filled with murderous intent, a chilling and bloodthirsty aura erupting from him!

"Who confuses right with wrong, aiding and abetting evil? Who is it that, feeling untouchable, has repeatedly harmed my woman?! It was you, and your granddaughter, who's worse than any beast!"

Everyone was so intimidated by the man's overwhelming presence that they scarcely dared to breathe.

Evadne, with tears in her eyes, gazed at him with intense affection. She still loved him deeply, and still enjoyed hearing him say, “Evadne is my woman.”

Thaddeus's throat was filled with a taste of blood, rising from his chest consumed with rage. His face was grim as frost, his muscles outlined beneath his suit as if carved from iron, extending to his clenched fists.

Anger and pain filled him with the power to destroy worlds. Before him, everything seemed fragile, ready to shatter with a single blow!

"Anyone who shields Edith becomes my enemy. And I will spend my life torturing them, ensuring they live every day in agony. Don't believe me? Try me!"

Barry had been a streetwise kid since he was a teenager, brawling for turf with rival gangs, no stranger to intimidating showdowns. Yet now, in front of this younger man, he felt his courage falter, his bluster hollow.

"Grandpa Barry, take me with you, please, Grandpa!" Edith shook Barry, who was rigid with shock, her voice choked with fear.

Could the old man really be scared of Thaddeus? It was just a few threats, and he was caving? Pathetic!

"Edith."

Evadne, pushing through her pain, steadied herself and stepped away from her brother, moving closer to Edith.

Now surrounded, Edith, despite her hatred for Evadne and her desire to see her dead, could no longer muster her defiance, resembling nothing so much as a turtle retracting into its shell.

"I only have one question for you."

Evadne closed her eyes, then reopened them to reveal a chilling, dark aura, "This medical report claiming I'm infertile - where did you get it?"

All eyes were sharply focused on Edith's swollen, reddened face. The young lady's casual inquiry struck at the heart of the matter.

"Yeah, I'm quite curious about the question Ms. Ashbourne just asked." Chasel strode to Cassius's side, his gaze icy as he looked at Edith, "As a doctor myself, I know these medical reports are highly confidential. Any doctor with a shred of professional integrity wouldn't disclose such sensitive information to anyone outside of the patient. So, I figure, Ms. Fairhaven, you must have bribed Ms. Ashbourne's attending physician, right? If that's the case, let's bring that corrupt doctor in as well. We'll have both the evidence and the witness."

Cassius nodded in agreement, his handsome face serious. Chasel's clever eyes darted a glance at him, and upon receiving his silent approval, felt a surge of triumph.

"Oh my, who is this dashing gentleman?"

"Must be another gallant knight from the Ashbourne family, ready to defend the lady's honor, right?"

Chasel rolled his eyes internally. He wasn't any knight; this was more like offering one favors at the expense of another, presenting Evadne to win favor with the man beside him.

"It wasn't a doctor! It had nothing to do with any doctor!"

Hearing the words "evidence" and "witness", Edith lost all composure, blurting out in panic.

"What do you mean? The report you have didn't come from a doctor? Then where did you get it?" Jareth demanded coldly.

Edith clenched her fists, her eyes darting around in frightened confusion, struggling to form a response.

"Heh, Edith, if our dad could see from heaven how you've used his legacy for wrongdoing and denial, he'd probably wish a lightning bolt would strike you dead." Jareth said, tearing his tie from his neck in a fit of fury and throwing it to the ground, his patience at its end, "Won't talk, huh? Guards! Take her away and hand her over to the police! If we can't get it out of her, they will!"

At his command, the bodyguards moved to grab her. Edith, trembling with fear, threw herself into her grandfather's arms, weeping and wailing, "Grandpa Barry! How can Jareth treat me this way?! He's trying to kill his own sister!"

"Jareth! Enough! She's your sister! Do you really want to shame her in front of all these people, make her unable to face the world ever again?!" Barry, seeing that a tough approach was futile, pleaded softly, "Even if Edith has done wrong, she's young, perhaps misled by someone with ulterior motives! In any case, I don't believe my dear granddaughter could do such a thing! How would she even think to ask a doctor for a medical report? Surely, someone planned this, using Edith! That person is likely someone close to Ms. Ashbourne. Without some inside knowledge, how else could they obtain such information?"

The old man, having raged all night, now spoke with a touch of clarity. Evadne and Thaddeus's expressions darkened simultaneously.

Indeed, Edith was a bad seed, but she wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Even if she had been smarter, how could she possibly have thought to investigate Evadne's medical history, let alone unearth such intimate details?

The only people privy to this secret, aside from the attending physician and Mr. Murray, were Emeric's three wives.

Mr. Murray and the ladies would never spill the beans, and the doctor was a close confidant of Hamilton for decades, watched closely by Mr. Murray. Furthermore, the original medical report had been deleted from the system long ago, leaving no trace behind.

Who could have the means to restore such a file, to know so intimately about her miscarriage from years past?

In that moment, a shiver of cold dread coursed through Evadne's core. It was as though an unseen pair of eyes had been spying on her from the shadows for a long, long time.

"Grandpa Barry, you shouldn't tax yourself with too much talking at your age. You need to take care of yourself."

Jareth let out a chilling laugh, "Even if she's not the mastermind, she's an accomplice. And whether there's a mastermind or not is still up for debate. We've caught her red-handed, and now she has to face the consequences. Take her away!"

"It wasn't me! I didn't plan any of this! I was used by someone else!"

As Edith found herself the target of everyone's ire, not only was her scheme against Evadne crumbling, she herself was on the verge of being branded a criminal.