19. The twins.

So, after that remarkable introduction by Duke, he and his mother are discussing something privately outside.

About our sudden marriage I'm sure.

And while that is going on outside, I am left with these two little… little… little… POPCORNS!

Yes, he was right to call them popcorns. Sweet popcorns that are dripping with lots of butter, sugar and honey. The kind that you'll get a stomach ache from if you eat too much but you just can't stop even though you know it would do you harm because the popcorn is just so damn sweet!

These two gummy bears are so damn cute!! They are so cute! With eyes like their father but way bigger and innocent, and hair as dark as his own too. Only theirs is curly. It's so curly and bouncy that I want to play with it!!!

They look so much like their dad and yet they are nothing like him! They are infinitely cute, these little ones.

Why did he say they could be little devils? Far from it. They are angels. Sweet lovely angels. All they've done since Duke and his mother left to talk outside is sit quietly in their small stylish puff-jackets and winter boots, looking at me with big inquisitive eyes.

Oh, I'm dying just by staring at them!!

"Mummy," the word comes out so softly that I think I must have heard it wrongly.

"Mummy, did you kwiss daddy?" Renny asks.

"Huh?" D_did I hear her correctly? Did she just ask if I kissed her daddy? I wait for seconds and when she doesn't repeat herself, I think I must have heard wrongly.

"Gwandpa say that in the stowy he wead for wus. He say the mummy and daddy bwear kwiss togwether." Shelly is saying. God help me, it is times like this I wish I don't understand baby language, but I understand everything he said so easily!

"Did you? Did you kwiss daddy?" Uhm, how do I answer that? Where is Duke! He put me in this position by introducing me to the children as mummy!

"Uhm, well, Uhm. The thing is uh, your_ your daddy and I, we uhh—"

"Where wis your wing?" Renny suddenly asks.

"My_ my wing? I_ I don't have a wing."

"But Gwandpa say that the mummy and daddy bwear have wedding wings on their fingwer." She says… OhOh, Rings! Shoot.

"Gwandpa and Gwandma have wedding wings."

"Uh, wedding wings_ I mean rings. Wedding rings. I_ I_ I huh—"

"I yike your sweater." Shelly suddenly says out of nowhere.

"W_well, thank you Shelly, I_ I like your jacket." I touch his jacket and he smiles! God kill me now!!! That was a wholesome smile!!

"Me, I yike hair." Renny also says.

"Oh, Renny, I like your hair too." And she also gives me a wholesome smile! I can't take it. My heart can't take this much cuteness.

"I yike it too." Shelly adds with a cute smile.

"Thank you too."

"Can I touch it?" She asks with her big eyes.

"Oh, oh ok. Sure, why not. Come on here and touch it." It won't hurt to indulge her.

"Me too." Shelly instantly rises up too.

"Oh, okay. You can also touch it."

And in a matter of seconds, my thighs have become a footstool and my head… Let's just say the headache after this will be massive!

"Renny! Shelly! Get off her head this instant!" His voice thunders through the room and instantaneously the both of them are off my head and body and now they are sitting like nothing ever happened.

"Did they say they 'yike' your hair?" He asks and I nod and he clicks his tongue, "One advice, never listen to them saying they 'yike' your hair. It's a trap." I know that now.

"Oh you make them sound mischievous, they were just welcoming her into the family in their own way." Queen Em says.

"Dreamy dear—" She's talking to me so I quickly rise to my feet, "wait, should I call you Champagne now?" She wonders to herself.

If Duke already told her everything pertaining to our agreement, I'm certain she must be shocked and angry. Everyone who knows me in the fan base knows I'm a married woman. So how shocking it must be for her to learn that I got together with her son just after I divorced my husband whom I always claimed to love in my comments.

She must find me disgusting and—

"It's such a unique name." She's giggling.

"Dreamy dear—" She suddenly walks closer to me and holds my hands in her own.

"Oh, no wonder your username is dreamy. Because you were living such a shitty—"

"Mom, kids! Language,"

"Sorry, I am just so angry. To think something I always write about in my stories is actually happening to you, my favorite reader, is devastating!" Is_ Is she taking my side?

"That—" She stares at the kids and then at Duke, and in a whisper she says, "that son of a bitch does not deserve you at all."

"I mean, you are so beautiful and I heard you were a real CEO too? You are too smart for that imbecile. It's a good thing you met dukey. You will be perfect together and—" Wait what? Is she really not angry? Even though she knows everything?

"And seeing that the kids already 'yikes' your hair, they clearly love you too. You would make a fabulous mother. That idiot has no idea what he has lost."

Has he really lost anything? He is with Alicia. She is every man's desire. I feel like he gained a lot.

"What do you want? Do you want me to tell my husband to make Gold group run out of business?—"

"Huh?!"

"Tsk, that will be a piece of cake for a man like my Fredrick." She's bragging about her husband right now. This is seriously not how I expected this conversation to go.

"I'll tell him to make them go bankrupt, if that's what you want. They deserve it for all they did to you and—"

"Y_you will do that for me?" I don't even know when the question slips through my lips.

"Oh, oh darling, I'd do more for my highest paying subscriber." She laughs and I can't help but laugh along with a little so that I'm holding back. "Come here dear." She says and hugs me. She's a little taller than I am.

"Do not worry a thing, your days of pain are over. From now on, you will only know laughter, love and victory."

As she hugs me my eyes shift to Duke who is sitting with both the kids sitting on his thighs and playing with his biceps.

Our eyes meet as Em reassures me of a brighter future ahead, and he smiles at me. As though he's also silently telling me the exact same words his mother is saying.

And seeing that reassuring smile makes me realize that my decision has been made. I will take the hand that he's offering me.

And I will bring down the entire Gold group with my own hands…

So help me God.

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Hellow everyone author here, since there will be more chapters with the twins having lots of dialogues, if you don't understand baby talk and would like me to translate the things the twins are saying, please leave a comment. If a lot of readers want it, then in the coming chapters I'll make sure that at the end of each chapters, I'll leave a translation on what the twins are saying.

Although I think majority would be able to understand baby language.