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."

stethoscope, he caught sight of

William; a frown still carved on

remembered him, the youngest son of

a bid to align with the Douglas', the Wilsons had their daughter, Jasmine, engaged to Daniel Douglas, elevating

indiscretions surfaced after the engagement party, and the birth of an illegitimate child had tarnished

precisely because of his uniqueness. As the heir to the Ryan Family, William had defied expectations.

joke in business circles for a

stitches, tetanus risks, malnutrition, and now, she's on the brink of starvation-quite the oddity," William remarked with

the Douglas family,

suspect for mistreating Jasmine, but was

eyes

Daniel taken her home only to withhold

Ethan, he said, "Maybe it's none of my business, but as a doctor, I must remind you,

part of the elite circles was their obsession with

status.

pride lost in

the air heavy with tension

a reminder, she was once engaged to your brother," William added, glancing at

everyone sought to curry favor with

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

officer entered the hospital room. "Sorry to intrude, but we need to confirm a few details. The hotel staff

icy. "She did this to herself, and ended

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