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?”

and the

“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. She’s causing quite a

the corridor behind her, drawn in by the spectacle. The door to the patient’s room was wide

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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 real daughter. Wasn’t I

felt a surge of anger

again, “Do you think we should have someone persuade her to leave? Mdm. Molly’s condition has just slightly

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

my mother personally: could she truly abandon me without a care? I wanted to see just

go of

“Mr. Guerra, something seems to

her out of there,” ordered Josiah in a chilling tone. “Now!”

“Okay!”

Instead, she immediately gathered a few bodyguards and instructed them

so loud that even the security guards had been

balcony. flung open the window, and then sat down at

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

nurse arrived just in time to administer oxygen to her, preventing

spoke with a tone of utter disappointment. “If you have even the slightest regard for all we’ve done to raise you, then stop this nonsense. Isn’t it embarrassing

her chest, the other trembling incessantly. Despite being on oxygen, her complexion remained particularly ghastly. She managed to utter, “How did we end up raising you like this?”

couple deeply regretted their past actions, so much so that they couldn’t even shed a tear.

seeing the situation, Lysanne became increasingly unwilling to back down. Her hands tightly grasped the window ledge, fearing she might actually fall. Her voice, however, became even more shrill.

the guts, then watch me die! Watch my body get torn to

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from her eyes. She seemed full of life and energy as if she could

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

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

hear her, her eyes reddening to the point

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

the hospital room door was initially lost in confusion. However, as they gradually understood the family drama

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