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?” 

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

and teased, “Say whatever you have

her lip wordlessly and

was so aggressive that night

in Catelyn’s direction 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 let’s get those clothes

he spoke, he came over

months ago flashed before her eyes, and she was instantly

“Uurgh—!” 

vomited at his chest with no regard to her appearance and instantly caused a

that on purpose?!” Furious, the man moved

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

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

glanced at

crushing the bones on her wrist,

He 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 be a lady from a powerful family. If I

must have been blind to have agreed to marry him in the first

seen a client who hires a prostitute to keep the baby? Here’s your tip, and

the cruise ship without a second glance

onward? Should she truly get rid of

her cheeks, knowing she did not have the heart to even do that. She did not grow up with a mother, her father having raised her on his own. Though her stepmother treated her fine, it was not the

fit to make her pregnant when her father went

sat on a branch 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 all, she slowly

up, a commercial popped up on the large screen

microphone, and in a clear voice, she said, “This just came in: Mason Group has launched their newest gardenia perfume named No. 520!

for a woman who appeared in Room 520, who also loved

demonstration of No. 520, the gardenia perfume, and the package was

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

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

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 from around the