743 The Siblings’ Deadly Secre (1/2)
The five test results all appeared one after another. All came out positive.
”I'm really pregnant!” Iris grabbed one of the test kits while her other arm hooked around Jin Liwei's neck in a half-hug.
He glanced at the results. ”Of course you are. Second Brother already confirmed that you're pregnant. A doctor of his calibre won't make such an amateur mistake, not to mention that we already saw our babies from the ultrasound.”
She nodded.
”Did the test kits satisfy your curiosity?”
”It was fun.” Then she paused before asking, ”Do you think what I just did is pointless?”
”If you had fun, then it's not pointless. It served its purpose.”
She blessed him with a bright smile which infected him and made him smile as well. Then his smile dimmed as he observed her expression. ”Are you still afraid?”
”What do you mean?” She tilted her head to the side in confusion.
”Afraid of becoming a mother, of carrying our babies inside you, and of giving birth.”
”A little,” she admitted.
He nodded, and then he turned serious. ”I'll tell you a secret.”
”What secret?”
He leaned his head down and whispered to her ear. ”The truth is…I'm also a little afraid of becoming a father.”
Her eyes widened. ”Really? But you told me that you're very happy and excited to become a father!”
”Of course I'm happy and excited. I'm fathering the babies of the woman I love. I feel like the happiest man in the world right now.”
”Then why?”
Shifting his body, he stood in front of her so that they were now face to face with their eyes locked on each other. Then he grabbed both her hands and held them tightly but not hard enough to hurt her, just enough to convey to her the sincerity of his words.
”Because it's something that I've never experienced before,” he said. ”We can only imagine what it's really like how to be parents and we've also had some practice with our cats and Little Jun, but having our own human children that we made ourselves is a whole different experience, don't you think? Our twins growing inside you literally came from a piece of you and me. It's something new to both of us.”
She understood what he meant. His was more of an intrinsic fear of the unknown. Hers, however, was deeply rooted from her personal experiences with her own mother from her past life. Both of them were afraid of becoming parents but for different reasons. She didn't tell him that, though. Maybe he thought that her fear was the same as his.
Despite his misunderstanding, she still received his good intentions. Warmth filled her heart and made her stomach flutter with happiness. Before they met and got together as lovers, Jin Liwei was a cold, hard, dominant, controlling and ruthless man. He didn't care much about other people's feelings. He only cared about getting what he wanted. Back then, his main priority was protecting the interests of the Jin family and continuing the legacy of Jin Corporation as the number one company in the country.
This kind of man was an alpha and would never show his vulnerable side to anyone else, even to his own friends and family (now demoted as ”relatives” because she was now his main family). Hell would freeze over before that could happen. At least, that was what everyone believed back then, including him.