When the Boss’ Lady Became His Sister-in-law

Chapter 220

Just head on back Rhett sald, pressing a hand to his forehead

The lawyer hesitated, his words stuck in his throat, but after a long silence, he decided to speak up. ‘Mr. FitzGerald, you’ve endured for over a decade. A few more days won’t make a difference”

Rhett remained silent.

Over a decade. Since he was a child, certain seeds had already taken root and begun to sprout.

“Rhett, rebvember, mom would never take her own life, never.”

Rhett. I have you, I would never han myself. Remember, if something ever happens to me, it wasn’t by my own hand…”

Rhett could never forget, that year he was only eight, the night Holcomb came home drunk and turned the house upside down in a violent rage.

On that stormy night, Rhett stood hidden behind the door, watching Holcomb strike his mother with a golf club, over and over.

His door was locked from the outside, and no matter how much he cried and screamed, he couldn’t open it. His fingers trembled as he pressed them against his forehead, veins bulging on the back of his hand.

The shadows of childhood can indeed follow you for a lifetime.

“Rhett Upstairs, Kristin walked out barefoot, her eyes red and swollen from crying.

She called out for Rhett, not Mr. FitzGerald, just his first name – Rhett.

Rhett’s thoughts snapped back to the present, a sharp pang in his chest.

Looking up at Kristin standing at the top of the stairs, he rose to his feet and quickly ascended. “Bad dream?”

“I dreamed you died…” Kristin was still crying, crying hard.

For Kristin, the worst nightmare wasn’t Rhett leaving her, it was Rhett dying – He was killed by someone because of her.

Rhett let out a chuckle, pulling Kristin into his arms to comfort her. “Been watching too many thrillers?”

Tm scared, if we push the Haywoods too far…” Kristin fretted.

She knew Hertha wasn’t foolish, not like Adrienne and Fiona, those foolish women.

patient and skilled at

comered, there was no telling

carried Kristin downstairs in his arms. “Instead of worrying about pushing those people too far, think about

attack, aiming for

for the throat first, ensuring their prey

for the enemy

rested her head on Rhett’s

lethal strike… That requires more than just tactics,

haven’t retaliated?”

saying being a mistress is a personal matter, unconnected to the Haywood name. Claimed she’s not close with them, that their families don’t mingle much, and she’ll take all responsibility, distancing the

convinced.” Kristin closed her eyes slowly, then spoke again. “No matter how fierce the online uproar, to Mr. Holcomb, it’s just pressure. If he insists on you marrying Hertha amidst such a storm, it only means one thing: the Haywoods hold something over the Fitzgerald Group, something more

along, the truth about his mother’s death,

was Kristin’s guess, Hertha’s final bargaining chip.

chip the Haywoods dare not reveal, not until the last

looking down at Kristin.

was truly

mine, but then they drifted apart,” Rhett murmured,

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to do with the Haywoods, they knew. Theti would come after

Mr. Holcomb expects you to

arms for who

set on Rhett’s

you going to go?” kristie asked

keep me here?

biting her lip. She

engaged to Hertha, it would mean the end of

you do to keep me…” Rhett’s voice was husky,

had no intention of going, yet he

remembering how Fiona had coyly flirted with

she keep

gently tugged at Rhett’s tie, her voice barely a

an excuse

Haywoods were in the eye of the media storm; he wouldn’t want to drag the Fitzgerald Group into it, better to wait until the heat

fill of her. It