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 of

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

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

him because he was different from

heir, he showed no interest in the family business but

turned the Lawrence family into

Chapter 15

a tetanus shot, severe malnutrition, and she’s

the Fitzgerald family but seemed out

Vincent would be the type to torment Kristin,

gaze darkened

Vincent brought her home

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 penance for Kristin. She doesn’t need to be pushed to the

They tormented a woman just for the sake of that

respect for these people.

and

brother’s fiancée,” Connor added, seeing

wanted to cling to him,

was indifferent to women, so how did Kristin get all

was usually the strong, silent type, and even knowing Connor had the wrong end

“Sorry to disturb you, but we must clear up a few

icy. “She beat herself into critical condition?”

Mr. Fitzgerald. We need evidence

the hotel corridor’s CCTV footage over,” Rhett said, checking the time. Since the cops were there, he saw no

stunned. Had

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