Please Let Me Go, My Contracted Ex-Husband.-Chapter 158 - - targeting the Laurence family.

Albert's phone call came from Lucca. He and Lucca had barely kept in touch recently. One reason was to avoid arousing Karl's suspicions, and the other was because their relationship had ended, and he didn't want to get tangled up in it anymore.

On the phone, Lucca's voice sounded somewhat hysterical.

"Albert, because of her, everything has been exposed. Where does that leave all the years of endurance and hard work we've put in?"

"The Lancaster family could have been eliminated a long time ago, but you refused to act. The only reason is that you didn't want to separate from her. Now, look what's happened. You've alerted them. The Lancaster, Laurence, and Danny families are now aligned, fully armed, and ready to take you down!"

A cold chill immediately crossed Albert's face, and there was an added iciness in his voice.

"Lucca, my affairs and my woman are none of your business. I've already told you to step back from these matters. You're the one who insisted on staying close to Karl!"

Albert wasn't someone who could be easily dealt with. He was always careful with his plans and had a firm grasp on the situation. The Lancaster and Danny families' businesses had already been deeply infiltrated by him, leaving them in tatters. No matter how hard they tried to salvage it, it was nothing more than a dying struggle.

As for Karl, Albert had many ways to deal with him. Getting evidence of his corruption was just a way to ruin his reputation and ensure his downfall. After all, Karl always pretended to be virtuous and upright in front of the public.

Now that the mask had been torn off, Albert wouldn't be merciful. He would use the quickest and most ruthless methods to destroy them.

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, and Lucca's voice softened a little.

"Albert, please forgive me for losing my temper. I didn't call to argue with you today. I just want to ask, what should we do next?"

"Adapt to the changes with consistency!"

Three days after Cynthia's injury, William arrived at the hospital with Maureen and Grace. At that moment, Albert was sitting by the bed, awkwardly struggling with a fruit knife and an apple. Cynthia, with her lips pressed together to suppress a smile, leaned against the bed quietly watching him.

These past few days, he had been sticking to her, not leaving her side. Although he wasn't very good at taking care of people, he still tried to show off. For example, peeling the apple — after a few days of practice, he was finally peeling it in a way that could be seen as somewhat decent.

These days seemed to be the happiest of her life. She would open her eyes and see him, and for most of the day, he wouldn't leave her. She was even happy to boss him around, watching him do things reluctantly but unable to refuse. With that, she couldn't feel any pain at all.

When she saw the people entering the ward, she felt somewhat uncomfortable, especially when she noticed the unmasked sympathy in Grace's eyes. It seemed that now everyone knew she was just a pawn in Albert's revenge against the Lancaster family.

Albert slowly put the fruit away, displeased, and stood up to face William and the others.

"Lancaster, shouldn't you have notified me before coming?"

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"I'm here to visit my daughter. Why make it so formal?"

William retorted without any hesitation, no longer showing the respectful smile he had once given Albert.

Albert sneered.

"Visit your daughter? Well, now it seems like she is my wife, and since she's injured, whether she sees anyone or not should be at my consent!"

William was caught off guard, unable to say a word, glaring at Albert with intense hostility. Maureen, who had remained silent up until then, gently spoke up.

"Vice President Wilson, could you please excuse us for a moment? We need to have a few words with our little sister."

Behind them, a weak voice called out.

"Albert—"

He turned around and saw her signaling him with her eyes, asking him to step out for a while. With a cold grunt, he turned and left. If it weren't for her and Maureen, he would've driven William out of there today.

As soon as Albert's figure disappeared outside the ward, William quickly took a step forward, his eyes flickering with a hint of guilt as he spoke to Cynthia.

"Cynthia, listen to your father. You should divorce him immediately!"

Though he had never been fond of this daughter, she was still his flesh and blood. Now, with her being used by someone, he couldn't just stand by. More importantly, given the current state of relations between the two families, if she continued to stay with him, pretending everything was fine, it would be too embarrassing.

"Divorce?"

Cynthia leaned there, watching them with a deep sense of mockery in her eyes.

When she had married him, they had tried everything to stop it, obstructing her at every turn. Now that she and Albert had finally reached a mutual understanding, they were coming to force her to divorce him. Wasn't that a little ridiculous?

They, of course, noticed the mockery in her eyes. Grace, who had always looked at her coldly, stepped forward and sat by the bed, unusually close to her.

"Little sister, he's going to destroy the Lancaster family. He's going to ruin us all. A demon like him—if you don't escape now, are you going to stay with him and wait to be tortured?"

The way Grace addressed her as "little sister" only made the mockery in Cynthia's eyes even stronger. Now that she had become a pawn to be used by others, everyone was filled with sympathy for her. Even Grace, after all these years of hostility, had given up and was willing to call her "little sister."

However, this marriage had always been one of mutual benefit. Cynthia saw it more clearly than any of them and understood it fully. Otherwise, she wouldn't have agreed to the clause about Lancaster's empire going bankrupt and their eventual divorce.

She wasn't a child, willing to be manipulated. Whether they were here out of genuine concern or hidden motives, her affairs had never been any of their business.

What did it matter to her if he wanted to destroy the Lancaster family? She wasn't part of the Lancaster family. In fact, it was something she had hoped for, as it would allow her to reclaim her mother's diamond bracelet.

Of course, she wouldn't say any of this to them. Her gaze fell on the half-peeled apple on the nearby table, its uneven surface, and a hint of tenderness flashed in her eyes. She spoke softly.

"Second sister, marriage is not a game. Even if it was a mistake to marry him, I will go through with it."

That simple sentence clearly expressed her stance, and it made Grace's heart ache. Her own marriage had been a mistake as well, and in the end, she had given it up. If she had insisted, would things be different now?

William was infuriated by her indifference, his voice rising as he shouted.

"He's not only going after the Lancaster family, but he's also targeting the Danny family! The Laurence family too! A man like that, and you can still be with him? Or is it that once a daughter is married, she's no longer part of the family? Are you now completely on his side?"

When William mentioned that he was going after the Danny family and the Laurence family, Cynthia's eyes flickered with a hint of emotion. She had already known he was going after the Lancaster family, and she had known about the Danny family too. After this injury, she also learned that he was targeting the Laurence family.