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?” 

outside for a bit. There’s something I need to talk to you about.” Catelyn forced herself to look away from

lifted an eyebrow and teased, “Say

wordlessly and stared

to himself, ‘This woman was so aggressive that night from two months ago,

Master Jamie because your family went bankrupt? It’s okay if he doesn’t want

spoke, he came over to tug at Catelyn’s

her eyes,

“Uurgh—!” 

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

on purpose?!” Furious, the man

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 deck angrily.

he flung her toward the handrail, which shot sharp pain up

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

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

and my wife has to be a lady from a

have agreed to marry him in

face furiously. “Have you ever seen a client who hires a prostitute to

left the cruise ship without a second glance at Jamie’s darkened expression before

from here onward? Should she truly get rid

she did not have the heart to even do that. She did not grow up with a mother, her father having

saw fit to make her pregnant when her father

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

she got up, a commercial popped up on the large screen

and in a clear voice, she said, “This just

a woman who appeared in Room 520, who also loved the scent

screen switched to a demonstration of No. 520, the

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

bought this perfume for the creative concept behind it,

and be patient, and her father even went the