Chapter 15

On the way to the hospital, Kristin gripped Rhett’s shirt for dear life, desperately clinging to a thread of security.

When she bolted from the private room, Kristin latched onto him like a drowning person grabbing a lifeline.

Rhett frowned at the sight of Kristin, whose petite face was as white as a sheet.

Years ago, when he saw her at the FitzGerald Mansion, she was like a rosebud about to bloom.

“Mr. FitzGerald… How about, um, how about I take over here, and you dash home to get changed?” At the hospital, the assistant nervously offered to take Kristin.

Rhett gave the assistant a frosty glance, brushed past him, and carried Kristin toward the

emergency room.

The assistant sucked in a breath of cold air, thinking Mr. FitzGerald was really off his rocker.

“Don’t, don’t touch me…” Kristin struggled in her semi–conscious state, her complexion getting

worse.

Anyone could tell she’d been through a nightmare.

“No, don’t touch me! Leave me alone, all of you…”

The nurses tried to examine Kristin, but her struggles in her dazed condition were too fierce.

“Dr. Lawrence, the patient is uncooperative.”

Connor was on duty with a stethoscope around his neck in the ER. He walked into the exam room and was shocked to see the brooding man standing there. “Rhett?”

Connor a

youngest son of the Lawrence family.

Turner family once got their darling.daughter Kristin engaged

of her scandalous private life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child, which dragged the Fitzgerald family and the Turner family through the

for Connor, Rhett remembered him because he

heir, he showed no interest in the family business but chose to become a doctor against the wishes of the Lawrence family.

turned the Lawrence family into a joke

Chapter 15

forehead needs stitches, a tetanus shot, severe malnutrition, and she’s on the brink of starvation. How

the Fitzgerald family but seemed out of lifelines.

Vincent would be the type to torment Kristin, but Rhett, too?

Rhett’s gaze darkened

her home just to starve

a nutritional IV,” Connor told another doctor, then turned to Rhett. “Maybe I’m overstepping, but as a doctor, Mr. Fitzgerald, I’d like to remind you that five years in prison should be enough penance for Kristin. She doesn’t need to be pushed to the brink.”

They tormented

no respect

and

was once your brother’s fiancée,” Connor added, seeing the marks on Kristin’s neck and jumping to conclusions.

Rhett and wanted to cling to him, but Connor

Rhett was indifferent to women, so how did Kristin get all these injuries?

knowing Connor had the wrong end of the stick, he couldn’t be bothered to

Fitzgerald, did you call the cops?” Outside in the ward, a police officer walked in. “Sorry to disturb you, but we must clear up a few things. The folks at the hotel are

icy. “She beat

panicked under Rhett’s powerful aura. “Sorry, Mr. Fitzgerald. We need

hotel corridor’s CCTV footage over,” Rhett said, checking the time. Since the cops were there, he saw no need

Had he

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