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.

landed on Arabella’s abdomen. “You’re not thinking of keeping

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

expected, he scoffed at Arabella. “We agreed from the start that I

“You are this foolish because you 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 criminal record, it

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

family didn’t even utter a word in her

made him reconsider the merits of marrying

convince my grandmother that I didn’t push her and get her forgiveness, so she can drop the charges?” Arabella asked. suppressing her displeasure.

that two billion, are you?”

will help me out Initially, Arabella wanted Paul to pay, but after seeing his obvious disdain for her now, she had no choice but to turn to her grandmother, Judith, and father, Scott, for

the benefits and difficulties of marrying Arabella. The immense benefits of aligning with the Brooks family eventually swayed him. “Fine.

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

Arabella to leave, his phone rang. It was his father, Ryan Ellington.

quickly answered.

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

stunned, wondering how his father

willingly

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

foolish son. The news was all over the

fool of yourself.

Chapter 21

Twitter, only to see the

as he clicked on the link, leading him

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