When the Boss’ Lady Became His Sister-in-law
Chapter 220
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.
and skilled at
no telling what she
carried Kristin downstairs in his arms. “Instead of worrying about pushing those
kill when they attack, aiming for the right
go for the throat first, ensuring their prey can’t fight
no room for the
on Rhett’s shoulder, pondering his words.
just tactics, it
calm the online storm? The Haywoods haven’t retaliated?” Kristin clung
to the Haywood name. Claimed she’s not close with them, that their families don’t mingle much,
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
truth about his mother’s death, and the evidence, was in
Kristin’s guess, Hertha’s final
chip the Haywoods dare not reveal,
looking down
truly
in medical equipment. Hertha’s mother was once close to mine, but then they drifted apart,” Rhett murmured, kissing Kristin’s cheek. “Even if
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mother’s death had anything to do with the Haywoods, they knew. Theti would come
to attend the prese conference this
for who knows how long when York’s
guessed, Holcomb was still set on Rhett’s engagement to the
asked timidly, gripping Rhett’s
you want to keep me here?
biting her lip. She truly
it would mean the end of their relationship.
keep me…” Rhett’s voice was husky, lazily leaning back on
going, yet he
remembering how Fiona had coyly flirted with
keep him?
barely a whisper. “Can you not go?
an excuse for Rhett.
drag the
couldn’t get his fill of her. It was painfully obvious he hadn’t
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