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.

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, are

sentenced. But looking at Paul’s reaction,

start that I would

are this foolish because you were raised by the Hawthorn family. My parents may not be politicians, but my uncle is

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

family didn’t even utter a word in her defense. It was clear that she

made him reconsider the merits

so she can drop the charges?” Arabella asked. suppressing her displeasure. “My grandmother wants money to revive the

out that two billion,

obvious disdain for her now, she had no choice but to turn to her grandmother, Judith, and father, Scott, for help.

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

keep the child in case she got charged, but

leave, his phone rang. It was his father,

He quickly answered.

“You’re willing to accept any trash? Are you trying to kill me with anger?!

was stunned, wondering how his father

the fool willingly was too

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

livid with his foolish son. The news was

made a complete fool of yourself. How can you compete with Percival

Chapter 21

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

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

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