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When she received the report, her eyes sparkled with joy, as bright as rippling spring water, radiant beyond compare.
She was going to have two little family members at once. How wonderful!
And she couldn’t help but wonder-how silly with joy would James be when he heard?
“Lily, what did the results say?”
Seeing her with the report, James hurried toward her, his eyes betraying the tension he couldn’t hide.
Meeting his gaze, so filled with worry and care, Lily’s smile bloomed even brighter.
“James, you’re going to be the father of two babies!”
“What? Two babies?”
James was usually quick-witted, but this time he stood frozen, dumbstruck, as if unable to process what she’d said.
The doctor had mentioned before that she might be carrying twins.
But hearing it confirmed-that she was indeed carrying two children-still left him stunned with joy.
That joy was quickly followed by a wave of dread and aching worry.
He knew how hard pregnancy was, how it dragged a woman through the valley of life and death.
Carrying one child was exhausting enough. But two? How could she bear the burden?
It was his fault. How could he have let her conceive twins?
“Why aren’t you saying anything? Don’t you like our babies?” Lily teased, putting on a mock scowl when he didn’t answer right away.
He stepped forward and pulled her into a crushing embrace.
GAY
“I don’t dislike them,” he rasped, his voice rough with fear and longing. “I’m just worried it will be too hard on you.”
But Lily didn’t feel burdened.
Her morning sickness had already faded.
Grace and Nancy ensured the chef made her delicious meals every day, and she was being looked after with such care.
She felt strong, energetic-like she could even handle triplets if it came to it.
Still, his words warmed her heart, softening it.
She gently hugged him back. “James, having two babies at once makes me so happy. Don’t worry too much. I’ll be fine, and so will they.”
He held her tighter, determined to do everything in his power to keep her and their children safe. But when he thought about her slender frame, soon to bear the weight of two growing lives, his worry gnawed at him, making his heart ache.
He was just about to kiss her, uncaring of the people passing by, when John’s furious voice cut through like a blade.
“Lily, you’re carrying twins?!”
“Answer me! How could you be pregnant with James’s twins?!”
His eyes were bloodshot, veins crawling across them like cracks in glass. His heart clenched as though torn to shreds, leaving it crushed and bleeding.
He could not accept that Lily was carrying James’s children.
And he especially could not accept that she was carrying two of them.
It felt like betrayal twice over, like being pierced through with ten thousand arro
Lily’s smile froze, the joy on her face slowly hardening into ice.
She truly loved children.
To have once been told she could never conceive, only to now be carrying two lives at once- her heart had been brimming with delight.
She had been reveling in James’s warm embrace, glowing with happiness, when John’s crazed outburst cut through the moment like filth splattering across sunlight. It was foul, maddening, utterly ruinous.
Lifting her face from James’s chest, she turned with cold disdain toward him. “John, this happens to be a hospital. If you’re sick, hurry up and get treated. Stop acting like a rabid dog every time you appear.”
“James is my boyfriend-the man I love with all my heart. So what if I give him twins? Even if I bore him triplets, quintuplets, ten children-it’s none of your business!”
“Lily!”
Hearing her say again that James was her true love, hearing her talk of giving him ten children, John’s eyes all but burst with red, his chest twisting with agony until he bent over in pain.
He couldn’t bear it.
When they had once been together, she had nestled in his arms, speaking of their future. She had told him time and again she wanted to give him two children-best of all, a boy and a girl, to make a perfect “family.”
She had promised him. Promised.
But now, their children had never come to be, and instead she was carrying twins for James.
The betrayal gutted him.
His lips trembled for a long time before a broken, rasping voice escaped, dry as a desert.
“Lily, you said you’d only ever have children with me. You can’t go back on your word. Bob, Dawn… are you really abandoning our babies?”
Lily’s forehead throbbed with black lines of exasperation.
Yes, once upon a time, when she had loved John with all her heart, she had spoken those dreams aloud, even given their imaginary children nicknames-Bob and Dawn.
She had been so foolish, so hopeful, imagining a happy little home with him, filled with sweetness.
But after his betrayal, hearing him bring it up now only made her feel sick.
“How I treat someone depends on how they treat me.”
When he mentioned Bob and Dawn, she caught the sour tang of jealousy in the air.
She cursed him inwardly again.
He was too malicious-always trying to provoke James’s jealousy, as if he wanted James to smother her with kisses until she couldn’t breathe.
Why did he want to ruin her?
Had she slaughtered his entire family in some past life?
Taking a deep breath, she snapped, “James has been loyal and true to me. Naturally I will love him with everything I have-he is the only one for me in this life. You, John-faithless, fickle, shameless-do you deserve anyone’s heart? Please, do the world a favor and stop disgusting me!”
With every word she spoke, John’s face drained paler still.
He knew he had hurt her again and again for Elsa’s sake, and he regretted it bitterly.
But he had only stayed by Elsa out of guilt, he told himself. His heart had always belonged to Lily. He had truly believed she would never leave him.
“Lily…”
When she turned away, unwilling even to look at him, her hand in James’s as she prepared to leave, John panicked and blocked her path.
His trembling fingers fumbled in his pocket, pulling out the diamond ring he had once ripped from Elsa’s hand. Dropping to one knee, he offered it to Lily with desperate reverence.
“I know… I know you’ve always hated me for placing your wedding ring on Elsa’s finger. But I’ve taken it back. I don’t care that you’re carrying James’s twins-I’ll accept it. Please, just give me one last chance. Let’s start over. Elsa lied to me-she never had cancer, her suffering abroad wasn’t my doing. I was wrong. I regret it all. Don’t leave me. Please, don’t abandon me.”
Lily’s gaze fell to the ring in his palm.
It was the very ring he had commissioned for her, a unique design, exquisite, one she had once adored.
She had dreamed of the day he would slide it onto her finger himself.
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