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

remembered Connor, the youngest son of the Lawrence family.

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

scandalous private life surfaced. Then she

Rhett remembered him because he

the family business but chose to become a doctor against the wishes of the Lawrence family.

into a joke

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tetanus shot, severe malnutrition, and

ticked off the Fitzgerald family but seemed out

Vincent would be the type to torment

gaze darkened with

her home

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

society. They tormented

respect for these people.

and said

fiancée,” Connor added, seeing

Rhett and wanted to cling to him, but

Rhett was indifferent to women, so how did Kristin get

the strong, silent type, and even knowing Connor had the wrong end of the stick, he couldn’t be bothered to correct him.

the ward, a police officer walked in. “Sorry to disturb you, but we must clear up a few things. The folks at the hotel

was icy. “She beat herself into

Mr. Fitzgerald. We need evidence and the victim’s

checking the time. Since the cops were there, he saw no need to stick

stunned. Had

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