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?”

frowned, sparing Connor a glance.

Connor, the youngest son of the

family once got their darling.daughter Kristin engaged to Vincent, the youngest

life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child,

Rhett remembered him because he was

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

turned the Lawrence family into a joke in business circles.

Chapter 15

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

off the Fitzgerald family but seemed out of

type to

Rhett’s gaze darkened

brought her home just to

her 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 in prison should be enough penance for Kristin. She doesn’t need to

society. They tormented a woman just for

no respect

was seething and said nothing.

This girl was once your brother’s fiancée,” Connor added, seeing the marks

to cling to

so how

the wrong end of the stick, he couldn’t be bothered to correct him.

must clear up a few things. The

was icy. “She beat herself into critical

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

said, checking the time. Since

stunned. Had he misunderstood?