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

teased, “Say whatever you

bit her lip wordlessly and stared at

that night from two months ago, and now she

with a mysterious smile. “Miss Clark, are you trying to borrow money from Master Jamie because your family went bankrupt? It’s okay if he doesn’t want to, I will. But

he came over to tug at

eyes, and she

“Uurgh—!” 

the man’s hand moved toward her, Catelyn vomited at his chest with no regard to her appearance and instantly caused a mess.

that on purpose?!” Furious, the man

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

he flung her toward the handrail, which shot sharp

glanced at Catelyn’s stomach and

the bones on her wrist, yet she managed to squeeze a

a 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, you

she scoffed. ‘I must have been blind to have agreed to marry

and frustration rose within her, and she took out a hundred-dollar bill before throwing it at Jamie’s face furiously. “Have you ever seen a

glance at Jamie’s darkened expression before

could she do from here onward? Should

not have the heart to even do that. She did not grow up with

this moment, the gods ironically saw fit to make her pregnant when her father went

she stared at the moving crowd walking past her in joy, anxiety, or no emotion at all,

she got up, a commercial popped up on the

voice, she said, “This just came in: Mason Group has launched their newest gardenia perfume

claims that it was specifically designed for a

switched to a demonstration of No. 520, the gardenia perfume, and

symbolizes ‘I love you’ in some

have bought

even went the length to collect all kinds of perfume made with the gardenia scent from around the world.