All Chapters of A Heart Torn by Betrayal: Chapter 11

The next time I saw Channing, it was just as Grayson and I were about to board the plane. Grayson's health had worsened from accompanying me back home, and now he had to seek the most advanced treatment abroad. The once arrogant heir of the Waltz family, who had been untouchable in his day, was no longer the man he had once been. Channing was dressed in a tattered shirt, one of his legs gone, a shadow of his former self. He stood in the gleaming, luxurious airport, feeling out of place, like a broken thing among the polished splendor. It was rumored that, in a desperate attempt to save his family's fortune, he had borrowed from the black market at extortionate interest rates, only to fall into debt so deep that the creditors had taken his leg.His eyes, once full of arrogance, were now filled with an unfamiliar self-loathing and fear. "Amanda," he asked, his voice edged with uncertainty. "Will you ever come back?" "If the Waltz family rises again, I'll come back—just to ruin