The Billionaire Twins Need A New Mommy! novel Chapter 818

Chapter 818: The Truth

[First Timeline]

"What did you say?" the cardinal—still a young seminarist at the time—turned to Lola, who was seated beside him on the same pew.

She wore a small smile as she looked back at him. "I’m getting married."

"Why?" he asked before he could stop himself. "Didn’t you say you wanted to enter the convent?"

"I did." She nodded, then chuckled softly. "I kept praying and praying after the last time we talked. Entering the convent was something I truly wanted. But I kept delaying it. I don’t want to enter with hesitation in my heart."

She pursed her lips and looked toward the altar. "Not long ago, I imagined myself standing in front of this altar, reciting vows as the wife of someone I love."

"I’m pregnant," she added without warning. Yet the smile on her face was unlike anything he had ever seen. "And he asked me to marry him."

She opened her fist and revealed a small ring. Her eyes softened as she gazed at it, as though it carried countless memories already.

"I know everything feels rushed, but I’ve never been this certain in my life," she whispered. "I can’t even believe it."

She grinned as she looked at him. "Do you believe in love at first sight?"

The cardinal fell silent, staring at the brightness of her smile. Of course, he believed in love at first sight.

That was what he had felt the first time he saw her. But he was not allowed to feel such things, or rather to act on them.

He was a seminarist—nearly a priest.

Yet ever since meeting her in the chapel where she volunteered, he had been drawn to her. Her beauty. Her kindness. Her presence. She was a secret he would never confess to anyone. After all, he was meant to become a priest, and she had once wanted to become a nun.

That could never happen.

That was what he kept telling himself.

Above all...

"Lola, do you know what kind of man he is?" he asked quietly.

She blinked, then smiled. "The secret society? I heard you’re aware of it too. I didn’t know the church held such secrets, but it’s alright. I won’t say a word. I’m sure the church has its reasons."

"It’s a dangerous world," he insisted.

But her mind did not change.

She didn’t argue. She simply shifted the topic and avoided it. No matter how much he tried to dissuade her, it didn’t matter. How could it? She was already pregnant.

The last thing he clearly remembered from one of their conversations was her saying;

"You’ll officiate our wedding, right?"

He didn’t even remember how he responded. But later that same day, an unexpected visitor came to the chapel.

Atlas.

He had only a few words to say.

"From what I know, feelings are not a sin. However, acting on them is a violation of your vow of celibacy, which is a grave matter. I’m saying this as a warning. The next time your eyes drift in her direction, and you attempt to sway my fiancée with your poisonous tongue."

It was a warning from a man protecting the woman he loved—from what he deemed the poisonous words of a proclaimed man of God.

But to the seminarist, those words felt like a challenge.

Words he would never forget.

Even being asked to officiate their wedding felt like a mockery. It wasn’t that he forgot Lola’s wish to be married in the chapel where she met her husband, with him presiding over the ceremony.

He simply ignored it.

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