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

youngest son

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 their status

life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child, which dragged the Fitzgerald family

for Connor, Rhett remembered him because he

business but chose

the Lawrence family into a

Chapter 15

shot, severe malnutrition, and she’s on the

off the Fitzgerald family but seemed out

Vincent would be the type to torment Kristin, but

Rhett’s gaze darkened

her home just to starve

“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

society. They tormented a woman just for the sake of

respect for these people.

seething and

This girl was once your brother’s fiancée,” Connor added, seeing

to cling to him,

to women, so how did

had the

must clear up a few things. The folks at the hotel are denying they hurt the lady, saying she did it to herself…”

beat herself

panicked under Rhett’s powerful aura. “Sorry, Mr. Fitzgerald. We need evidence and the victim’s statement.”

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

was stunned. Had he

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