The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 217

Inside the private suite.

Paul sat alone on the couch, his gaze lifting slightly as Arabella entered. He stared at her gloomily, and after a long silence, he finally spoke, “Our alliance is over, and I’m going public with the fact that the child you’re carrying has nothing to do with me.”

“How could you do this to me, Paul?” Arabella’s heart filled with resentment, but she still looked at Paul with a pitiful gaze.

“Don’t give me that act!” Paul was completely unaffected by Arabella’s attempt at playing the victim.

He had once thought Arabella was a pure and innocent goddess. His pursuit of her was causing him sleepless nights.

However, after learning she had been impregnated out of wedlock at eighteen and that she couldn’t even identify the father of her child, he found her past pretenses sickening.

“Do you think the Ellington family is a joke? I would never marry a woman who has been to jail”

Given the evidence, Arabella was destined to be sentenced. If he married her, he would become the laughingstock of the town.

He was vying for the position of head of the family against Percival. He couldn’t afford to have such a stain on his reputation.

“What if I manage to avoid jail?” Arabella bit her lip and asked.

abdomen. “You’re not thinking of keeping this child and using your pregnancy

last resort in case she got sentenced. But looking at Paul’s reaction, it was clear that he

start that I would never let

for me.” He looked at Arabella disdainfully. “You are this foolish because you were raised by the Hawthorn family. My parents may not be politicians, but my uncle is a high–ranking official. If I marry a

how Arabella got pampered by the Brooks family and thought that she was

engagement because of Arabella’s attempted murder, the Brooks family didn’t even utter a word in her defense. It was clear that she

him reconsider the merits of

didn’t push her and get her forgiveness, so she can drop the charges?” Arabella asked. suppressing her displeasure. “My grandmother wants money to revive the Hawthorn family business. If we give her two billion, she will

me to shell out that two billion, are you?” Paul laughed sarcastically.

Initially, Arabella wanted Paul to pay, but after seeing his obvious disdain for her now, she had

moment of contemplation, Paul weighed the benefits and difficulties of marrying Arabella. The immense benefits of aligning with the Brooks family eventually swayed him. “Fine. If you manage to avoid charges and a criminal record, then we can continue. But the child you’re carrying

She wanted to keep the child in case she got charged, but on

about to tell Arabella to leave, his phone rang. It was his father, Ryan Ellington.

quickly answered.

“You’re willing to accept any trash? Are you trying to kill me with anger?!

was stunned, wondering how his father

the fool willingly was too humiliating.

though his family planned to call off the engagement due to Arabella’s attempted murder charge, he had never told anyone

Ryan was practically livid with his foolish son. The news was all over the place, and Paul was still clueless.

want to win over the Brooks family, but not in this way! You’ve made a complete fool of yourself. How can you compete with Percival now?! Your engagement is off!

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only to see the

hand trembled as he clicked on the

a woman was heard speaking to him flirtatiously. “Paul, your fiancée is pregnant, and yet you invited the three of us