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?”

Connor a

Connor, the youngest son of the Lawrence

by the Turner, Lawrence. Haywood, and Gladstone families. The Turner family once got their darling.daughter Kristin engaged to Vincent, the youngest son of the

private life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child, which

for Connor, Rhett remembered him because

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

family into a joke

Chapter 15

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

family but

type

Rhett’s gaze darkened with confusion.

Vincent brought her home just

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 should be enough

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

respect for these people.

seething and said nothing.

Connor added, seeing the marks on Kristin’s neck and jumping

in Silvergrove City feared Rhett and wanted to

was indifferent to women, so how did Kristin get

silent type, and even knowing Connor had the wrong

we must clear up a few things. The folks at the hotel are denying they hurt the lady, saying

was icy. “She beat

powerful aura. “Sorry, Mr. Fitzgerald. We need

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

was stunned. Had he misunderstood?