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?” 

I need to talk to you about.” Catelyn forced herself to look away

eyebrow and teased, “Say whatever

bit her lip wordlessly and stared at

that night from two months ago, and now she

trying to borrow money from Master Jamie because your family went bankrupt? It’s okay if he doesn’t want to, I will. But let’s get those clothes of yours off, huh? It’s just a hot day to wear so

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

flashed before her eyes, and she was

“Uurgh—!” 

chest with no regard to her appearance and instantly caused a

purpose?!” Furious, the man moved to slap

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

her toward the handrail, which shot

Jamie glanced at

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

narrowed his eyes, before continuing in a sarcastic, cold tone, “You’re just a lady without a penny to your name, and my wife has to

have been blind to have

you ever seen a client who hires a prostitute to keep

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

onward? Should she truly get

not grow up with a mother, her father having raised her on his own. Though her

moment, the gods ironically saw fit to make her pregnant

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

got up, a commercial popped up on

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

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

screen switched to a demonstration of No. 520, the gardenia

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

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

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