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

the youngest son

dog in Silvergrove City, followed by the Turner, Lawrence. Haywood, and Gladstone families. The Turner family once got their darling.daughter Kristin

the engagement party, rumors of her scandalous private life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child, which dragged the Fitzgerald

because he

showed no interest in the family business but chose to become a doctor against the wishes of the Lawrence family.

Lawrence family into

Chapter 15

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

ticked off the Fitzgerald family but seemed

thought Vincent would be the type to torment Kristin, but

Rhett’s gaze darkened

Vincent brought her home just to starve

her a nutritional IV,” Connor told another doctor, then turned to Rhett. “Maybe I’m overstepping, but as a doctor, Mr. Fitzgerald, I’d like

the so–called reputation of high society. They tormented

had no respect for these

and said

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

wanted to cling

so how

even knowing Connor had the wrong end of the stick, he couldn’t be bothered to

cops?” Outside in the ward, a police officer walked in. “Sorry to disturb you, but we must

gaze was icy. “She beat herself into

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

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

Had