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 glance.

Connor, the youngest son of the Lawrence

dog in Silvergrove City, followed by the Turner, Lawrence. Haywood, and Gladstone families. The Turner family once got their darling.daughter Kristin engaged to Vincent, the youngest son of the Fitzgerald family, boosting

scandalous private life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child, which dragged the

for Connor, Rhett remembered him because he was different from others..

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

turned the Lawrence family into

Chapter 15

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

had ticked off the Fitzgerald family

thought Vincent would be the type to torment

gaze darkened

Vincent brought her home just to starve her?

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

high society. They

respect for these people.

seething and

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

to

women, so how did Kristin get

the wrong end of the stick, he couldn’t

to disturb you, but we must clear up a few things. The folks at the hotel are denying they hurt the lady, saying she did

gaze was icy. “She beat herself into critical

“Sorry, Mr. Fitzgerald. We need evidence and the

Rhett said, checking the time. Since the cops were there, he saw no

was stunned. Had

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