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

Chapter 23

Were they picking on Kristin again?

Seeing Kristin’s messy hair and torn clothes, even an idiot could tell these jerks had been up to nasty tricks.

“Are you guys ever going to cut it out?” Tam’s sudden burst of anger came out with a kick to a guy lounging nearby.

The kicked guy got pissed. “What’s your deal, Tam?”

As the two squared up to fight, the others jumped in to break it up. “We’re all buddies here. No need to ruin the vibe.”

“Who the hell is buddying with him? He has kicked me over some chick!” The rich kid who got kicked whined, looking wronged.

Tam glanced at Vincent, sitting in a corner, brooding silently.

Tam frowned and took off his jacket, draping it over Kristin. “I’ll get her out of here.”

The rich brats started to tease. “Tam, you’re such a hopeless romantic, huh?”

“Weren’t you at the hotel that night, too? Isn’t Kristin’s kid yours?” the rich kid, who got kicked, asked with a nasty sneer.

Tam had a short fuse and was about to throw a punch.

The guy quickly dodged to the side.

Kristin numbly followed Tam and left the private room.

The corridor outside the bar was deafening, with young people partying wildly on the dance

floor.

Kristin’s ears were ringing, and her steps were unsteady.

tissue by the restroom door, wet it, and handed it to Kristin. “Clean the blood on

face and feeling the warm

on her forehead

cleaned her face, asking softly, “Was it

to make out what Kristin was

guy at the Diamond Crest Hotel six years ago?” Kristin looked up at Tam, her swollen

feeling an unexpected tightness in his chest.

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was his first love,

and Kristin was the school

the sports festival. She was like a shining star in the sky, now fallen into

can’t tell them apart anymore?” Tam looked away, his question dripping with sarcasm.

staring at the blood–stained

wasn’t right to let her go alone so

but stopped, mustering the courage to turn and look at Tam.

find her son’s

tightly, turning white. Kristin despised these people,

Summer’s sake, she had to muster the courage to disgust herself. She had to keep recalling

stunned, thinking Kristin had lost it.

to find a dad for her

answer.

Rhett walked out with a steely expression and an icy

loathed places like bars, but tonight’s meetup

child’s father in the restroom.

Kristin in the mirror, Rhett felt the irony. Too many men, and she doesn’t know who her

expecting to

and Rhett were relatives. Rhett’s biological mother and Tam’s mother

had taken good care of Tam’s family before she passed away, so the families

kept a poker face, glancing at Tam once before issuing a stern