Chapter 218: What Kind of Goods Will You Take?!
In the private room, Nathaniel Farrell sat alone on the sofa. When Amber Reed entered, he lifted his eyes slightly and looked at her with a gloomy expression. After a while, he spoke, “Our cooperation is over. I will also publicly announce that the child in your womb has nothing to do with me.”
“Nathaniel, how can you treat me like this?” Amber Reed’s heart was full of anger, but she still looked at Nathaniel Farrell with pitiful eyes.
“Stop playing that game with me!” Nathaniel Farrell was no longer buying Amber Reed’s act of innocence. He used to think she was a pure goddess who haunted his dreams. But after learning that she had been pregnant out of wedlock at eighteen and couldn’t even find the father of her child, leaving him to take the blame, he felt disgusted by her past pretense.
“Do you think the Farrell family is some lowly household? No matter what, I can’t marry a woman who has been to prison.”
Amber Reed’s scandal had solid evidence and would definitely lead to a conviction. If he married her, he would become a laughingstock. He was competing with Jared Farrell for the position of family head; how could he allow such a stain on his reputation?
“What if I don’t have to go to prison?” Amber Reed bit her lip and asked.
“What do you mean?” Nathaniel Farrell frowned slightly, then suddenly widened his eyes and stared at Amber Reed’s belly in anger. “You don’t intend to keep this child and use your pregnancy to get a suspended sentence, do you?”
Amber Reed had indeed considered using the child as a last resort if she had no other options. But seeing Nathaniel Farrell’s expression now, it was clear he wouldn’t agree.
Sure enough, he sneered at her, “We agreed from the beginning that I would never let the child in your womb become my firstborn! Besides, even if you get a suspended sentence, you’ll still have a criminal record. That’s no different from having been in prison for me!”
He continued contemptuously, “You must not have grown up in the capital’s Reed family to be so foolish. My parents may not be in politics, but my uncle works in the government. If I bring home a wife with a criminal record, it will surely affect his career! Do you think my grandfather would agree to sacrifice my uncle’s future for you?”
Moreover, when he saw how pampered Amber Reed was by the Reed family elders and Jasper Reed in the capital, he thought they cared deeply for her. But seeing how they didn’t even put up a fight when his grandfather went to break off the engagement showed she wasn’t valued much by the Reed family.
This made him reconsider whether marrying Amber Reed for an alliance was worth it.
“What if I can convince my grandmother that I didn’t push her and get her forgiveness to withdraw the lawsuit?” Amber Reed suppressed her dissatisfaction and asked again. “My grandmother wants money to help the Ensford Reed family rise again. If we give her two billion dollars, she’ll definitely agree!”
“You don’t expect me to come up with that two billion dollars, do you?” Nathaniel Farrell sneered.
“My grandmother and father will help me with that money.” Although Amber Reed had hoped Nathaniel Farrell would pay, it was clear he wouldn’t be such a fool. Since he refused to be taken advantage of, she had no choice but to find a way for Annabelle and Jasper Reed to help her with the money.
Nathaniel Farrell pondered for a moment. Weighing the benefits and troubles of marrying Amber Reed, he finally succumbed to the enormous benefits that the capital’s Reed family could bring. He nodded, “Fine. If you can avoid prosecution and not have a criminal record, but you absolutely cannot keep the child!”
“Don’t worry.” Amber Reed gritted her teeth. She planned to keep the child only as a last resort if she were prosecuted but outwardly agreed obediently. “I want this child even less than you do.”
Nathaniel Farrell nodded and was about to tell Amber Reed to leave when his phone rang. It was his father Arthur.
“Dad,” he answered quickly.
“Are you out of your mind!” Arthur’s angry voice was so loud that even Amber Reed could hear it. “What kind of trash are you taking in?! Do you want to drive me into an early grave?! Why are you marrying Amber Reed when you know she’s pregnant with someone else’s child?! Do you know how much of a laughingstock you’ve made us?!”
“Dad?” Nathaniel Farrell was stunned and wanted to ask how his father knew about this.
Such an embarrassing situation where he willingly took on someone else’s responsibility was too shameful. Even though the family intended to break off the engagement due to Amber Reed’s attempted murder case, he hadn’t told anyone about it.
“Look at the news yourself!” Arthur was furious with his foolish son. The matter had already become widely known while Nathaniel Farrell remained oblivious during his meeting with Amber Reed!
“I know you’re trying to win over the Reed family, but not like this! You’ve turned yourself into a joke! How can you compete with Jared Farrell now? Your marriage is off! Get back to the capital immediately!”
Nathaniel Farrell opened social media and saw that the top headline was glaringly titled “Nathaniel Farrell Amber Reed.”
His pupils contracted as he shakily clicked on it and heard an audio recording.
In the recording, a woman coyly said, “… Mr. Farrell, your fiancee is pregnant yet you’ve called us here to accompany you. Aren’t you afraid she’ll miscarry from anger?”
He seemed drunk and slurred his words slightly, “So what if she miscarries? I’d be glad if she did! The child isn’t mine anyway!”
Another woman exclaimed in surprise, “The child isn’t yours? Then whose is it?”
He replied coldly, “She doesn’t even know whose it is; how would I know?”
The woman gasped in shock, “No way! Mr. Farrell, your fiancee looks so young and innocent! How could she be so promiscuous that she doesn’t even know who the father is?”
His cold laughter grew louder. “Innocent my foot! We’ve all been deceived! I’ve been deceived too! She’s just trash who got knocked up and came begging me to take responsibility…”
Nathaniel Farrell’s face turned extremely ugly. No wonder his father was so angry; now everyone knew he had willingly worn a green hat and played daddy!
He only wanted to find those three women from that night and see who dared betray him!
He would skin them alive!
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“Mr. Farrell is truly the most outstanding simp I’ve ever seen!”
“Nathaniel Farrell did nothing wrong; he just wanted to give a fallen woman a home!”
“Fallen woman my foot! Upstairs commenter must mean ‘hookup princess’ instead; otherwise how could she not know who her child’s father is? Didn’t you see those photos where she’s clearly enjoying herself!”
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