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 you about.” Catelyn forced herself to look away from

“Say whatever you have

wordlessly and stared at him.

so aggressive that night from

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

he spoke, he came over to

from two months ago flashed before her eyes, and she was instantly overwhelmed by the urge

“Uurgh—!” 

her, Catelyn vomited at his chest with

purpose?!” Furious, the man

She closed her eyes to brace herself for the slap, when Jamie stood up abruptly to stop

her toward the handrail,

at Catelyn’s stomach

as though he was crushing the bones on her wrist, yet she managed to

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

she scoffed. ‘I must have been blind to have

she 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

second glance at Jamie’s darkened expression before starting to

here onward? Should she truly get rid of the

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

to make her

As she stared at the moving crowd walking past her

a commercial popped up on the large screen in

female anchor held the 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

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

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

when she was still the princess of the Clark Family. She would have bought this

and her father even went the length to collect all kinds of perfume made with the gardenia scent from around the