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…”

didn’t force myself on you? That the wounds on my body were self-inflicted, not caused by you?” William cut her off, “You claim to love me, yet you’ve framed me and

place to rest, but Carla had

his panic, 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 then on, everything spiraled out of control, and he had no

a sheet, “William, I love you too much.

her only opportunity of having him.

was okay. As long as they got married, she would make it

for Carla evaporated in an instant.

walked to the window, staying silent for a long time.

approached him gingerly, taking his hand. “William, don’t worry about the rumors. They’ll die down

any emotions, he said. “Set a date for

I inform the

“But I really want to

marrying William. At long last that the opportunity had

perhaps you should find someone else to marry. You could just do to them what you did to me, couldn’t

Carla was stunned.

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

to work, the office was

his place was a ruthless businessman who, within a matter of days, had ousted several old shareholders and promoted his own people. Thanks to his approach, the rumors about him

ceased contact, a fact that Hannah Chester found hard to believe.