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.

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

resort in case she got sentenced. But looking at

expected, he scoffed at Arabella. “We agreed from the start that I would never

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

got pampered by the Brooks family and thought that

even utter a word

reconsider the merits of marrying

her and get her forgiveness, so she can drop the charges?” Arabella asked. suppressing her displeasure. “My

not expecting me to shell out that two billion, are you?” Paul

pay, but after seeing his obvious disdain

Arabella. The immense benefits of aligning with the Brooks family eventually swayed him. “Fine. If you manage to avoid charges

got charged, but on the surface, she agreed

to leave,

He quickly answered.

Are you trying to kill me with anger?! Why would you marry Arabella knowing that she’s carrying someone else’s child?

Paul was stunned, wondering how his

willingly

the engagement due to Arabella’s attempted murder charge, he had never told

news yourself!” Ryan was practically livid with his foolish son. The

in this way! You’ve made a complete fool

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only to see the trending hashtag, “Paul, The Cuckold.”

contracted and his hand trembled as he clicked

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