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.

took her straight to

was lying on the bed. His breathing was shallow and his eyes were barely open. When he saw Avery, he raised his arm in her

this sick?” Avery said as she held her father’s cold hand. Tears welled up

Where would we get the money to take your father

you get a large sum of money

money your father’s company owes? Don’t look at me

cruel words, Wanda heartlessly stormed out of the

not leave with

still her father. He had always loved her, and she did not

but the family really doesn’t have much money,” Avery sniffled as she stood crying by

a deaf

tears. His lips trembled and his voice was low as he said, “Avery… My

large hand holding hers suddenly

tore through the

throbbed in

world underwent an

and pregnant, and her father was

had thought that she was just still just a child herself, but

the funeral was

people attended the funeral, not since the

went to

crowd scattered like a

were the only ones left at the

moods were as dark as the

hate Dad, Mom?” Avery asked as she stared at her father’s

her gaze and said in a dull voice, “I do. Even if he’s dead, I will

Avery did not understand.

you crying?” she

just a

night, Avery dragged her worn out body back to

day of Jack’s death to the end of the funeral, the process had

to the mansion at all

from the Foster family contacted

not tell anyone in the Foster

Elliot was colder

mansion’s lights were lit, and the living room was filled

dressed to the nines and chatting away merrily with

in

noticed her and rushed

liveliness

on in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm

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