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

son of the Lawrence family.

followed by the Turner, Lawrence. Haywood, and Gladstone families. The Turner family once got their darling.daughter

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

him because he was

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

turned the Lawrence family into a joke in

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severe malnutrition, and she’s on the brink of starvation. How bizarre,” Connor scoffed after looking at Kristin’s

family but seemed

the type to torment Kristin, but

darkened

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 to remind you that five years

so–called reputation of high society. They tormented a woman just for the

no respect

and said

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

Rhett and wanted to cling to him,

said Rhett was indifferent to women, so how did Kristin get all these

was usually the strong, silent type, and even knowing Connor had the wrong end of

“Sorry to disturb you, but we must clear

“She beat herself into critical condition?”

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

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

was stunned. Had he

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