The Charming Ex-Wife

Chapter 552 The Final Gamble

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

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“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.”

A brief silence echoed from the other end of the 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 to do this

time?”

any trace of emotion, and the undertone of his words hinted at a deep–seated disdain.

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

spectacle. The door to the patient’s room was wide open, and anyone with decent hearing

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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 real daughter. Wasn’t I innocent in all this-”

to this, Josiah 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

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

abandon me without a care? I wanted to see just how cold her

of

became urgent. “Mr. Guerra, something seems to

of there,” ordered Josiah in

“Okay!”

gathered a few bodyguards and instructed them to

the security guards had

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 passing out from anger, and seeing Lysanne make such

time to administer

while also trying to persuade Lysanne to calm down. His temples were throbbing, and he spoke with a tone of utter disappointment. “If

hand clutching her chest, the other trembling incessantly. Despite being on oxygen, her complexion remained

so much so that they couldn’t even shed a tear.

grasped the window ledge, fearing she

Watch my body get torn to pieces, my brains splattered all over the ground!”

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not a single tear fell from her eyes. She seemed full of life and energy as if

in taking care of Molly for a while, had a fair understanding of their household situation. Feeling

laced with regret. “We’ve been through 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 journey to the underworld. I will be by your

hear her, her eyes reddening to the point of

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

lost in confusion. However, as they gradually understood the family drama unfolding

and even if there’s a preference, it shouldn’t be this blatant! No wonder they