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?” 

forced herself to look away from the filthy sight before her and stood there expressionlessly like

teased, “Say whatever you have to say here!”

bit her lip wordlessly and stared

so aggressive that night

your family went bankrupt? It’s okay if he doesn’t want to, I will. But let’s get those

he came over to tug at

months ago flashed before her eyes, and she was instantly overwhelmed

“Uurgh—!” 

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

on purpose?!” Furious, the man

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

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

at Catelyn’s stomach and gritted

crushing the bones on her wrist, yet she managed

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

‘I must have been blind to have agreed to marry him in

and she took out a hundred-dollar bill before throwing it at Jamie’s face furiously. “Have you ever seen a client who hires

she was done, Catelyn left the cruise ship without a second glance at Jamie’s

onward? Should she truly get rid of

up with a mother, her father having raised her on his own. Though her stepmother treated her fine, it was

ironically saw fit to make her pregnant when

in the square dazedly for a long while. As she stared at the moving crowd walking past her in joy, anxiety, or no emotion at

a commercial popped up on the large screen in the square.

the microphone, and in a clear voice, she said, “This just came

was specifically designed for a woman who appeared in Room

demonstration of No. 520, the

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

Family. She would have bought this perfume for the creative concept behind it, because she had

her father even went the length to collect all kinds