Chapter 15 Call to Action

On the way to the hospital, Jasmine clung desperately to Ethan's shirt, as if grasping for threads of safety.

Her attempt in fleeing from that the room had been akin to a drowning person clinging to a lifeline.

Ethan's frown deepened as he looked at Jasmine. Her delicate face was as pale as paper.

The first time he saw her at the Douglas family gathering, she was like a blooming gardenia.

"Mr. Douglas... maybe, maybe I could take her, so you can go home and change?" Suggested his assistant nervously upon arriving at the hospital, reaching to take Jasmine.

Ethan shot his assistant a cold glance and strode past him, carrying Jasmine towards the ER.

The assistant inhaled sharply; Mr. Douglas was acting really out of character today. "Don't... don't touch me..."

In her semi-conscious state, Jasmine's struggle was becoming increasingly desperate, her face growing paler by the second.

Anyone could see she had been through a harrowing ordeal.

"Don't touch me! Don't... you all stay away from me..."

The nurse tried to examine Jasmine, but her frantic struggles were too intense.

"Dr. Ryan, the patient is uncooperative."

duty. Once he stepped into the examination room with his stethoscope, he caught sight of the

at William; a frown still carved

him, the youngest

Francisco's elite, followed by the Wilsons, the Ryans, the Browns, and the Taylors families. In a bid to align with

of her indiscretions surfaced after the engagement party, and the birth of an illegitimate child had tarnished the reputations of both the Wilsons and the Douglases in San Francisco's

defied expectations. Rather than showing interest in the

become somewhat of a joke in business

malnutrition, and now, she's on the brink of starvation-quite the oddity," William remarked with a sardonic chuckle

the

obvious suspect for mistreating Jasmine, but was Ethan involved as

Ethan's eyes darkened

Daniel taken her home

to Ethan, he said, "Maybe it's none of my business, but as a doctor, I must remind you, Mr. Douglas, that five years behind bars should suffice for atonement. There's no need to push

circles was their obsession with their name

status.

pride lost in the past?

air heavy with tension around

to your brother," William added, glancing at Jasmine's neck, and

to curry favor with him, but William

was supposedly indifferent to women, where did Jasmine's injuries come from? Usually tight-lipped, Ethan couldn't

you call the police?" An officer entered the hospital room. "Sorry to intrude, but we need to confirm a few details. The hotel staff denies any

"She did this to herself, and

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