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?”

sparing Connor

youngest son of the

by the Turner, Lawrence. Haywood, and Gladstone families. The Turner family once got

was a fraud, and after the engagement party, rumors of her scandalous private life surfaced. Then she had

Connor, Rhett remembered him because he was

he showed no interest in the family business but chose to become

family into a joke in

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tetanus shot, severe malnutrition, and

ticked off the Fitzgerald family but seemed out of lifelines.

Vincent would be the type to torment Kristin,

gaze darkened with

home just to starve her?

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 in prison

so–called reputation of high society. They

respect for these people.

was seething and

was once your brother’s fiancée,” Connor

feared Rhett and wanted to cling to him, but Connor

indifferent to women, so how did Kristin get all

type, and even knowing Connor had the

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

“She beat herself into critical condition?”

“Sorry, Mr. Fitzgerald. We need evidence and the victim’s

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

was stunned. Had he