Chapter 9
There was no sign of two gestational sacs during the last checkup.
Avery could not believe that there were two babies inside of her a short week later.
She held the ultrasound scan in her hands as she sat in a quiet daze on one of the benches in the hospital corridor.
The doctor told her that the probability of being pregnant with twins was extremely low.
If she had an abortion now, she might never be able to have twins again.
Avery chuckled bitterly. All of this was the work of the Fosters’ private doctors.
When they had implanted the fertilized eggs into her, they had not mentioned that she was going to have twins.
Perhaps in their eyes, she was nothing but a birthing tool for the Fosters from the beginning.
When she began to bleed the week before, she thought that her period had arrived. When the Fosters’ doctors found out, they thought that the procedure had failed. When Elliot said that he would divorce her after he had woken up, the doctors had never seen her again.
The decision to give birth or not was now solely on her shoulders.
Avery’s phone rang in her bag. She had been in the hospital for over an hour.
She pulled out her phone, stood up, and walked toward the hospital’s exit.
“Avery, your father’s dying! Come home right away!”
Her mother’s hoarse voice came from the other side of the line.
Avery was stunned.
Dad was dying? How could this be?
She knew that her father had been hospitalized after his company got in trouble. He could not even attend her wedding.
She did not know that his condition was this serious. Avery’s mind was a mess.
She did not have a good relationship with her father. She could never forgive him for having an affair.
However, her heart stung painfully upon suddenly hearing the news of his serious illness.
……
The living room of the Tate house was a chaotic mess when Avery arrived.
straight to the
his eyes were barely open. When he saw Avery, he
didn’t you go to the hospital if you’re this sick?” Avery said as she held her father’s cold hand. Tears welled
the money to take your
you get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn’t you use
off the debts! Do you know how much money your father’s company owes? Don’t look at me like
saying such cruel words, Wanda heartlessly stormed out
did not
father. He had always
she didn’t want to get you treated, but the family really doesn’t
deaf ear to
at her with eyes filled with tears. His lips trembled and his voice was low as he said, “Avery… My darling
holding hers suddenly
tore through
throbbed in
world underwent an earth-shattering
married and pregnant, and
still just a child herself, but life swept
of the funeral was a
people attended the funeral, not since the fall of the
the service, Wanda went to a hotel with
a flock of wild
the only
dark as the gray
Mom?” Avery asked as she stared at her father’s gravestone
dull voice, “I do. Even if he’s dead, I will never
Avery did not understand.
are you crying?”
isn’t just a matter of love or hate.
Avery dragged her worn
day of Jack’s death to the end of
to the mansion at all
the Foster family contacted
in the Foster house
with Elliot was colder than ice
courtyard, she noticed the mansion’s lights were lit, and the living room was filled with
to the nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses in their
paused in her
noticed her
was because Avery’s cold and pitiful expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room,
raining outside. Come on in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm and pulled her into the living
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