The Charming Ex-Wife

Chapter 552 The Final Gamble

Carol spoke rather sentimentally. “Actually, you found her a long time ago.”

“Indeed,” Josiah admitted with a hint of melancholy. “I was too obsessed. I had noticed early on that Lysanne’s temperament had changed since childhood, yet I never doubted it.”

“Mr. Guerra, even though I’m your secretary, as a womarl, I can’t help but feel more sympathy for Mrs.. Guerra.”

“I understand.”

The two had been working together for many years. Without saying much, they both understood each other.

Josiah asked, “Please answer a question from a woman’s perspective for me.”

“Go ahead,” she said.

“Would you still accept me if you were Lysander?”

Carol hesitated for a moment, forcing a laugh. “Mr. Guerra, I’m not your wife. My choices don’t. necessarily align with hers.”

A chill ran through Josiah’s heart. “Okay, I understand.”

Carol heard his dejected tone and wanted to offer comfort. However, while she excelled at handling tasks, providing comfort was something she found quite challenging.

After a brief silence, she heard Josiah ask, “How are things at the hospital?”

Carol had initially planned to share the details with him, and upon hearing his request, truthfully relayed, “After you left with Mrs. Guerra, everything at Thorne Constructions and Energies was fine, except… Ms. Thorne had returned to the hospital.”

Josiah was instantly infuriated. “Is she bothering Mr. Thorne and his family again?”

“She’s here right now at Mr. Howard and Mdm. Molly’s.”

of the line, a testament to Josiah’s effort to suppress his rising anger. When he finally spoke, his voice

trace of emotion, and the undertone of

far from Molly’s hospital room. After a glance, she replied, “It’s the same old story. You’ve blocked her path. Her only hope lies in Mr. Howard and Mdm. Molly’s continued pity for her, hoping they might grant her a bit more of their wealth.

room was wide open, and anyone with decent hearing could pick up on the commotion coming from inside. decided to bring me home and raise me. I didn’t even have my own name, and I had to use your biological daughter’s. You never loved me. You only saw me as a replacement for your

to this, Josiah felt a surge of anger welling

has just slightly improved. If

spoken than Howard’s furious roar was heard. “What are you trying to do? Leave her

personally: could she truly abandon me without a care? I wanted to see just how cold her heart really is!”

go of me now-

Guerra, something seems

of there,” ordered Josiah in

“Okay!”

Instead, she immediately gathered a few bodyguards and

even the security guards had been drawn over by the noise.

Lysanne resorted to her usual tactics. She dashed to the balcony. flung open the window, and then sat down at the edge, with more

was already on the verge of passing out from anger, and seeing Lysanne make such a scene caused a wave of pain to grip

arrived just in time to administer oxygen to her, preventing

to calm down. His temples were throbbing, and he spoke with a tone of utter disappointment. “If you have

up in her sickbed, one hand clutching her chest, the other trembling incessantly. Despite being on oxygen, her complexion

actions, so much so that they

to back down. Her hands tightly grasped the window ledge,

then watch me die! Watch my body get torn to pieces, my brains splattered all

from her eyes. She seemed full

Molly for a while, had a fair understanding of their household situation. Feeling indignant, she interrupted, “Ms. Thorne, please stop talking.

I’ve failed as a daughter, unable to fulfill my duties to you in life. So, let’s go together to what lies beyond. You won’t be alone on this journey to the underworld. I will

as though she was afraid others might not hear her, her eyes reddening to

family and lady of the Guerra family had always been hers, but now it was all for naught. She had to at least secure a sum of money substantial enough to guarantee a lifetime of wealth and prosperity as