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?” 

you about.” Catelyn forced herself to look away from the filthy sight before her and stood there expressionlessly like

lifted an eyebrow and teased, “Say whatever you have to

her lip wordlessly and stared at

‘This woman was so aggressive that

money from Master Jamie because your family went bankrupt? It’s okay if he

he spoke, he came over to tug

eyes, and she was instantly overwhelmed by the

“Uurgh—!” 

his chest with no regard to

purpose?!” Furious, the man moved to slap her.

was already weak 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 man before dragging Catelyn toward the

on the deck, he flung her toward the handrail, which

you pregnant?” Jamie glanced at Catelyn’s stomach and gritted

crushing the bones on her wrist, yet she managed to squeeze a stubborn reply, “No.”

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

‘I must have been blind to have agreed

seen a client who hires a prostitute to

Catelyn left the cruise ship without a second glance at Jamie’s darkened expression before starting to wander on the

do from here onward? Should she

grow up with a mother, her father having raised her on his own. Though her stepmother treated her fine, it was not

this moment, the gods ironically saw fit to

at the moving crowd

up, a commercial popped up on the

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

it was specifically designed for a woman who

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

that symbolizes ‘I love you’ in some cultures. How

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

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