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 glance.

son of the

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

and after the engagement party, rumors of her scandalous private life surfaced. Then she had a bastard child, which dragged

Rhett remembered him because he was different

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

into a joke in

Chapter 15

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

family but seemed out of

be the type

Rhett’s gaze darkened with

home just to starve her?

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

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

no respect for these

seething and said

was once your brother’s fiancée,” Connor added,

Rhett and wanted to cling to him, but Connor couldn’t

to women, so how did Kristin get all these

the wrong end of the

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

icy. “She beat herself into

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

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

was stunned. Had

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