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

youngest son

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

of her scandalous private life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child, which dragged the Fitzgerald family and

Connor, Rhett remembered him because he

Lawrence heir, he showed no interest in the family business but chose to become a doctor against the

turned the Lawrence family into a joke

Chapter 15

on her forehead needs stitches, a tetanus shot, severe malnutrition, and she’s on the brink of starvation. How bizarre,” Connor scoffed after looking

the Fitzgerald family

the type

darkened with confusion.

Vincent brought her home just to starve

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

high society. They tormented a woman just for

had no respect for these people.

was seething and said nothing.

just a heads–up. This girl was once your brother’s fiancée,” Connor

feared Rhett and wanted to cling to him,

was indifferent to women, so how

type, and even knowing Connor had the wrong end of the stick, he couldn’t be

officer walked in. “Sorry to disturb you, but we must clear up a few things. The folks at the hotel are denying they hurt

icy. “She beat herself

officer panicked under Rhett’s powerful aura. “Sorry, Mr. Fitzgerald. We need evidence

checking the time. Since the cops were there,

Had he misunderstood?