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.

remembered Connor, the youngest son

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 their status in Silvergrove City.

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

him because he was different from

in the family business but chose to

turned the Lawrence family into a joke in business

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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 Kristin, but Rhett, too?

gaze darkened with

her home

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

was more laughable than the so–called reputation of high society. They tormented a woman just for the sake of

respect

seething and

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

feared Rhett and wanted to cling

said Rhett was indifferent to women, so how

type, and even knowing Connor had the wrong

we must clear up a few things.

was icy. “She beat herself into critical

aura. “Sorry, Mr. Fitzgerald. We

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

was stunned. Had he misunderstood?

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