Our Billion-Worth Twins by Velvet Antler

“Congratulations.” The doctor handed the ultrasound scan result to Catelyn. “You’re eight weeks pregnant!” 

Catelyn paled as though she had been struck by lightning. Refusing to accept it, she asked, “Could there be a mistake, Doctor?” 

“The sample of your urine shows that you are positive, and there couldn’t possibly be a mistake,” the doctor answered firmly. “Besides, your insomnia and postponed menstruation couldn’t be faked, could they?” 

Catelyn’s mind went blank, her hands shivering as she grabbed onto the scan result. 

She got pregnant, under the circumstances of her family’s decline and the Mason family’s withdrawal from the arranged marriage. 

It was from that time with Jamie two months ago… It was Jamie’s child. 

The doctor seemed to be used to this sort of situation and reminded her kindly, “If you choose to do an abortion, I suggest that you do so as early as possible. Nonetheless, you’re having twins, which rarely happens, so it’s best to discuss with the father whether to keep them or otherwise.” 

… 

Catelyn did not even remember how she left the hospital. 

Two months ago, her father was involved in a car accident, and the car fell into the river with him in it. Jamie took her that night but did not help the Clark family afterward. 

Instinctively, she knew that Jamie’s response to this would be to have her get an abortion, but she was responsible for two lives. 

Hope, however frail, rose within her as she was reluctant to take away these two lives. 

However, when she arrived on the cruise ship Jamie was on and saw all the beautiful women on deck clinging onto the men, her heart froze. 

“Master Jamie, here comes your fiancé,” one of the men teased inside the private room. 

Jamie shoved the young model in his arms away as his lips curled into a sarcastic sneer. “Catelyn Clark?” 

outside for a bit. There’s something I need to talk to you about.” Catelyn forced herself to look away from the filthy sight

teased, “Say

her lip wordlessly

himself, ‘This woman was so aggressive that night from two months ago,

borrow money from Master Jamie because your family went bankrupt? It’s okay if he doesn’t want to, I

came over to tug

from two months ago flashed before her eyes, and she

“Uurgh—!” 

toward her, Catelyn vomited at his chest with no regard to her

on purpose?!” Furious, the man moved

from the pregnancy and had no means to dodge the assault. She closed her eyes to brace herself for the slap, when Jamie stood up abruptly to stop the

deck, he flung her toward the handrail, which shot sharp

glanced at Catelyn’s stomach and gritted out.

as though he was crushing the bones on her wrist, yet she managed to squeeze a stubborn reply,

in a sarcastic, cold tone, “You’re just a lady without a penny to your name, and my wife has to be a lady from a powerful family. If I find out that you

must have been blind to have agreed

throwing it at Jamie’s face furiously. “Have you ever seen a client who hires a prostitute to keep the baby? Here’s your tip, and keep it! That’s

a second glance at Jamie’s darkened expression

do from here onward? Should

tears slid down her cheeks, knowing she did not have the heart to even do that. She did not grow up with a mother, her father having raised her on his own. Though her stepmother treated her fine, it was not the

saw fit to make her pregnant when

branch in the square dazedly for a long while. As she stared at the moving crowd

she got up, a commercial popped up on the large screen in the

and in a clear voice, she said, “This just came in: Mason

the concept behind it, the designer claims that it was specifically designed for a woman who appeared in Room 520, who also loved the

of No. 520, the gardenia perfume, and the package was incredibly

love you’ in some cultures. How romantic…’ pondered

still the princess of the Clark Family. She would have bought this perfume for the creative concept behind it, because she

symbolism of the flower was to stay strong and be patient, and her father even went the length to collect all kinds of perfume made with the gardenia scent from around