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?” 

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

and teased, “Say whatever you have to

her lip wordlessly and stared

that night from two

him, who was enjoying the drama, whistled in Catelyn’s direction with a mysterious smile. “Miss Clark, are you trying to borrow money from Master Jamie because your family went bankrupt?

spoke, he came over to tug at Catelyn’s clothes.

months ago flashed before her eyes, and she

“Uurgh—!” 

chest with no regard to her

on purpose?!” Furious, the man moved to

assault. She closed her eyes to brace herself for the slap, when Jamie stood

flung her toward

Jamie glanced at Catelyn’s stomach and gritted out.

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

your name, and my wife has to be a lady from a powerful family. If I find out that you are secretly pregnant with

must have been blind to have agreed to marry him in the

a hundred-dollar bill before 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 all you’re worth! You disgust

Catelyn left the cruise ship without a second glance at

she do from here onward? Should she truly get rid of

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

moment, the gods ironically saw fit to make

moving crowd walking past her in joy, anxiety, or

a commercial popped up on the large screen

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

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

anchor’s introduction, the screen switched to a demonstration of No. 520, the gardenia perfume, and the package was

It’s a date that symbolizes ‘I love you’ in some

the time when she was still the princess of the Clark Family. She would have bought this perfume for the creative concept behind it, because she had loved gardenia flowers since

symbolism of the flower was to stay strong and be patient, and her father even went the