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

youngest son of the Lawrence family.

Gladstone families. The Turner family

Kristin was a 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 through the mud in Silvergrove

remembered him because he was

the Lawrence heir, he showed no interest in the family business but chose to become a doctor against the wishes of the Lawrence family.

the Lawrence family into a joke

Chapter 15

shot, severe malnutrition, and she’s on the brink of starvation. How bizarre,” Connor scoffed

the Fitzgerald family but seemed out of lifelines.

Vincent would be the type to torment Kristin, but Rhett,

darkened

Vincent brought her home just

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 be pushed to

so–called reputation of high society. They tormented a woman just for

no respect

seething and said

just a heads–up. This girl was once your brother’s fiancée,” Connor added, seeing

wanted to

women, so how did Kristin get all these

the strong, silent type, and even knowing Connor had the wrong end of the stick,

we must clear up a few things. The folks at the

gaze was icy. “She beat herself

Mr. Fitzgerald. We need evidence

said, checking the time. Since the cops were there, he saw no need to stick

stunned. Had he

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