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?”

sparing Connor a glance.

son of

families. The Turner family once got their darling.daughter Kristin engaged to Vincent, the youngest son of the Fitzgerald family, boosting their

alas, Kristin was a fraud, and after the engagement party, rumors of her scandalous private life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child,

for Connor, Rhett remembered him because he was

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

turned the Lawrence family into a joke in

Chapter 15

a minor concussion. The cut on her forehead needs stitches, a tetanus shot, severe malnutrition, and she’s on the brink of starvation. How bizarre,” Connor scoffed after looking

family but seemed

the type to torment Kristin, but Rhett, too?

gaze darkened with confusion.

home just to

to Rhett. “Maybe I’m overstepping, but as a doctor, Mr. Fitzgerald, I’d like to remind you that five years in prison should

reputation of high society. They tormented

respect for

was seething and said nothing.

just a heads–up. This girl was once your brother’s fiancée,” Connor added, seeing the marks on Kristin’s neck and jumping to

and wanted to cling to him, but Connor couldn’t care less.

to women, so how did Kristin get all

type, and even knowing Connor had the wrong end of the stick, he couldn’t be

disturb you, but we must

icy. “She beat herself into critical condition?”

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

assistant bring the hotel corridor’s CCTV footage over,” Rhett said, checking the time. Since the cops were there, he

stunned. Had

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