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.

you mean?” Paul furrowed his brows and widened 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,

sentenced. But looking at Paul’s reaction,

at Arabella. “We agreed from the start that I would never let your child become my

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

the Brooks family and thought that she was well–loved by them.

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

him reconsider the merits of marrying

didn’t push her and get her forgiveness, so she can drop the charges?” Arabella asked. suppressing her displeasure. “My grandmother wants

shell out that two billion, are you?” Paul

help me out Initially, Arabella wanted Paul to pay, but after seeing his obvious disdain for her now, she had no choice but

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 cannot

keep the child in case she got charged, but on the surface, she agreed obediently “I want this child

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

quickly answered.

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 of our

stunned, wondering how

willingly was

family planned to call off the engagement due to Arabella’s attempted murder charge, he had never told anyone what was truly going on.

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

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

Chapter 21

the trending

hand trembled as he clicked on the link, leading him to an

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