When the Boss’ Lady Became His Sister-in-law

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?”

frowned, sparing Connor

son of

families. The Turner family once got their darling.daughter Kristin engaged

was a fraud, and after the engagement party, rumors of her scandalous private life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child, which dragged the Fitzgerald family and the Turner family through the mud in Silvergrove

for Connor, Rhett remembered him because he was different from

business but chose to become a doctor against the wishes of the Lawrence family.

into a joke

Chapter 15

has 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 at Kristin’s checkup

had ticked off the Fitzgerald family but

type

darkened with confusion.

brought her home

doctor, Mr. Fitzgerald, I’d like to remind you that five years in prison should be enough penance for

They tormented a woman just

no respect for

was seething and

fiancée,” Connor added, seeing the marks on Kristin’s neck and jumping

and wanted to

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

knowing Connor had the wrong end of the stick, he

disturb you, but we must clear up

beat herself

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

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

was stunned. Had