The Billionaire Who Stole My Heart

Chapter 676

William had practically sequestered himself in his room for a solid week.

News of the impending union between the Dillion and the Salter families spread like wildfire.

Everything that had transpired at the engagement party was hushed up by the Salter family, but there were still those in the know who were gleefully spreading rumors within their social circles.

Accusations of deceit and even rape were being bandied about.

Carla had tried to visit him a few times, but William had refused to see her. On her last attempt, he finally agreed to meet her.

Carla looked at William’s sunken eyes and clenched her fists instinctively.

“William, are you okay?” She asked with concern in her voice.

William was dressed in a thin white knitted sweater. In just a week, he had lost over twenty pounds, looking ragged and haggard.

He stood up and asked her as he wanted to be sure, ‘Are you really sure you want to marry me?”

“William, you promised to marry me…” Carla panicked, thinking he was going to break off their engagement, “I really do love you. I know what happened that night wasn’t what you wanted, I…”

That the wounds on my body were self-inflicted, not caused by you?” William cut her off, “You claim to

but Carla had approached him, resulting in a scuffle that had him crashing

he grabbed a fruit knife and cut his own hand. By the time he had sobered up, Carla was sitting on the bed in disarray, and before he could apologize, the Salter family had barged in. From

she said, her face white as a sheet, “William, I love you too much. I know you don’t love me back,

her only opportunity of having him.

long as they got married, she would make

had for

window, staying

approached him gingerly, taking his hand. “William, don’t worry about the rumors. They’ll die down soon. After we get married, I promise to make

he said. “Set a date for the wedding. I’ll be

ceremony, should I inform the Salter family, or will you?”

turned ashen as she said, “But I really want to

last that the opportunity had landed

at her; his usually warm demeanor replaced by a cold hardness as he retorted, “Then perhaps you should find someone else

Carla was stunned.

her and went into the bathroom. After freshening up and changing into a suit, he left the Dillion house.

the office was

a matter of days, had ousted several old shareholders and promoted his own

mutually ceased contact, a fact that Hannah Chester found