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.”

line, a testament to Josiah’s effort to suppress his rising anger. When he finally spoke, his voice had turned considerably colder. “What is she planning

emotion, and the undertone of his words

“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

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

felt a surge of anger welling up inside him.

persuade her to leave? Mdm. Molly’s condition has just slightly improved. If she continues to create such a fuss, I’m afraid it might worsen Mdm.

spoken than Howard’s furious roar was

to ask my mother personally: could she truly abandon me without a care? I wanted to see just how cold her heart

go of me

urgent. “Mr. Guerra, something seems

Josiah in a

“Okay!”

the phone. Instead, she immediately gathered a few bodyguards and instructed them

on the phone, chaos had already erupted in Molly’s hospital room. The commotion was so loud that even the security

loud cries went unanswered, Lysanne resorted to her usual tactics. She dashed to the balcony. flung open the window, and then sat down at the edge, with more than half of

verge of passing out from anger, and seeing Lysanne make such a scene caused a wave of pain

arrived just in time to administer oxygen to her, preventing any severe

down. His temples were throbbing, and he spoke with a tone

her sickbed, one hand clutching her chest, the other trembling incessantly. Despite being on oxygen, her complexion remained particularly ghastly. She managed to utter, “How did we

deeply regretted their past actions, so much so that they

situation, Lysanne became increasingly unwilling to back down. Her hands tightly grasped the

watch me die! Watch my body

from her eyes. She seemed full of life and energy

a while, had a fair understanding of their

so much together, and 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

she was afraid others might not hear her, her eyes reddening to the point of almost bleeding due to intense

now it was all for naught. She had to at least secure a sum of money substantial enough to guarantee a lifetime