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.

on Arabella’s abdomen. “You’re not thinking of keeping this child and using your pregnancy to get a lighter sentence, are you?”

in case she got sentenced. But looking at Paul’s reaction, it was clear that he wouldn’t

start that I

you were raised by the Hawthorn family. My parents may not be politicians, but my uncle is a high–ranking official. If I

seen how Arabella got pampered by the Brooks family and

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

him reconsider the merits of marrying Arabella.

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,

that two billion, are you?”

but after seeing his obvious disdain for her now, she had no choice but to turn to her grandmother,

swayed him. “Fine. If you manage to avoid charges and a criminal record, then we can

case she got charged, but on

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

quickly

any trash? Are you trying to kill me with anger?! Why would you marry Arabella knowing that she’s carrying someone else’s child? Do you know what a laughingstock you’ve made

Paul was stunned, wondering how his

the fool willingly was too humiliating.

attempted murder charge, he had never told anyone what was truly going on.

Ryan was practically livid with his foolish son. The

You’ve made a complete fool of

Chapter 21

only to see the

pupils contracted and his hand trembled as he clicked on the link, leading

to him flirtatiously. “Paul, your fiancée is pregnant, and yet you invited the three of us to accompany