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

Connor, the youngest son

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 their status in Silvergrove City.

surfaced. Then she had a bastard child,

remembered him because he was different from

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

the Lawrence family into

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malnutrition, and she’s on the brink of starvation.

ticked off the Fitzgerald family but seemed

type to torment Kristin, but

gaze darkened with

home

a doctor, Mr. Fitzgerald, I’d like to remind you that five years in

reputation of high society. They tormented a woman just for the sake of that humiliation.

had no respect

was seething and said nothing.

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

Silvergrove City feared Rhett and wanted to cling to

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

had the wrong end of the

a police officer walked in. “Sorry to disturb you, but we must clear

was icy. “She beat herself into

aura. “Sorry, Mr. Fitzgerald. We need

said, checking the

was stunned. Had he