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.

his eyes as his gaze landed on Arabella’s abdomen. “You’re not thinking of keeping this child and using your pregnancy to get a lighter sentence,

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

agreed from the start that I would never let your child become my

is no different than going to jail for me.” He looked at Arabella disdainfully. “You are this foolish because you were raised by the Hawthorn family. My parents

Arabella got pampered by the Brooks family and thought that she

engagement because of Arabella’s attempted murder, the Brooks family didn’t even utter a word

him reconsider the merits of

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,

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

me out Initially, Arabella wanted Paul to pay, but after seeing his obvious disdain

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

gritted her teeth. She wanted to keep the child in case she got charged, but on the surface,

Arabella to leave, his phone rang. It was

quickly

Are you trying to kill me with anger?! Why would you

was stunned, wondering how his father knew.

the fool willingly was too

engagement due to Arabella’s attempted murder charge,

the news yourself!” Ryan was practically livid with his foolish son. The news was all over the place, and

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

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to see the trending hashtag,

and his hand trembled as he clicked on the link, leading him to an audio clip.

to him flirtatiously. “Paul, your fiancée is pregnant, and yet