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.

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,

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

Arabella. “We agreed from the start that

a criminal record, which 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

he had seen how Arabella got pampered by the Brooks family and thought that she was well–loved

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

him reconsider the merits

asked. suppressing her displeasure. “My grandmother wants money to revive the Hawthorn family business. If we give her two billion,

that

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

of aligning with the Brooks family eventually swayed him. “Fine. If

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

leave, his

He quickly

trying to kill

Paul was stunned, wondering how his father knew.

willingly was

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

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

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

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only to see the trending hashtag,

he clicked

speaking to him flirtatiously. “Paul, your fiancée is pregnant, and yet you invited the