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

an eyebrow and teased, “Say whatever you have

her lip wordlessly and stared at

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

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 of yours off, huh? It’s just a hot day to wear so many

over to tug at

ago flashed before her eyes, and she was instantly overwhelmed by the

“Uurgh—!” 

toward her, Catelyn vomited at his chest with no regard

the man

closed her eyes to brace herself for the slap, when Jamie stood up abruptly to stop the man before dragging Catelyn toward the

her toward

glanced at Catelyn’s stomach and gritted

was 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 you are secretly pregnant with my child, you should know

have agreed to marry him in the first

took out a hundred-dollar bill before throwing it at Jamie’s face furiously. “Have you ever seen a client who hires a prostitute to keep the baby? Here’s your tip, and keep it! That’s all you’re worth!

a second glance at Jamie’s darkened expression before starting to wander on

do from here onward? Should she

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

gods ironically saw fit to make her pregnant

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

up on the large

a clear voice, she said, “This just came

was specifically designed for a woman

anchor’s introduction, the screen switched to a demonstration of No. 520, the gardenia perfume, and the package

520. It’s a date that symbolizes ‘I love you’ in some cultures. How romantic…’

She would have bought this perfume for the creative concept behind it, because she had loved gardenia flowers since she

flower 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