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.

her straight to the master

shallow and his eyes were barely open. When he saw Avery, he raised

go to the hospital if you’re this sick?” Avery said as she held her father’s cold hand. Tears

we get the money to take your father to the hospital?” Wanda

large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn’t you

father’s company owes? Don’t

saying such cruel words, Wanda heartlessly

did not leave

still her father. He had always loved her, and she did

her, Dad. It’s not that she didn’t want to get you treated, but the family really doesn’t have much money,” Avery sniffled as she stood crying by the

deaf ear

looked at her with eyes filled with tears. His lips trembled and his voice was low as he said, “Avery… My darling girl… I’ve failed you… I’ve failed your mother… I’ll make it up to both

large hand holding hers suddenly

cry tore through the

heart throbbed in

world underwent

pregnant, and

just a child herself, but life swept her up and pushed her into

the funeral was a gloomy

funeral, not since the

Wanda went to

a flock of

Avery and Laura were the only ones

were as dark

Avery asked as she stared at her father’s gravestone through teary

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

Avery did not understand.

are you crying?” she

loved him,” Laura sighed. “Relationships are complicated, Avery. It isn’t just a matter of love

dragged her worn out body back

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

the mansion at all during the three

Foster family contacted her

did not tell anyone in the

was colder than ice and

the mansion’s lights were lit, and

chatting away merrily with wine

paused in

Cooper noticed her and rushed

stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room, but the smile on Mrs. Cooper’s face tensed as she

Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm and pulled her into the living

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