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 a glance.

Connor, the youngest son of the

dog in Silvergrove City, followed by the Turner, Lawrence. Haywood, and Gladstone families. The Turner family once got their darling.daughter

was a fraud, and after the engagement party, rumors of her scandalous private life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child, which dragged the Fitzgerald family and the Turner family through the

Connor, Rhett remembered him because

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

family into a joke in business circles.

Chapter 15

has a minor concussion. The cut on her forehead needs stitches, a tetanus shot, severe malnutrition, and she’s

had ticked off the Fitzgerald family

the type to

gaze darkened

brought her home just to starve

another doctor, then turned to Rhett. “Maybe I’m overstepping, but as a doctor, Mr. Fitzgerald, I’d like to remind you that

so–called reputation of high society. They tormented a woman just for the sake of that

respect for these people.

was seething and said

and 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.

City feared Rhett and wanted to cling to him, but

to women, so how did

knowing Connor had the wrong end of

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

was icy. “She beat herself into critical

powerful aura. “Sorry, Mr.

my assistant bring the hotel corridor’s CCTV footage over,” Rhett said, checking the time.

was stunned. Had he misunderstood?