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

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

if you’re this sick?” Avery said as she

the money

up as she said, “Didn’t you get a large sum

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

cruel words, Wanda

not

her father. He had always loved

at 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

turned a deaf ear to Avery’s

at her with eyes filled with tears. His lips trembled and his voice was low as he said, “Avery… My darling girl… I’ve

holding hers suddenly

shrill cry tore through

heart throbbed in

underwent

married and pregnant,

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

the funeral was a gloomy and

the funeral, not since the fall

Wanda went to a hotel with

a flock of

Laura were the only ones left

were as dark as the gray

Avery asked as she stared at her father’s

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

Avery did not understand.

are you

sighed. “Relationships are complicated, Avery. It isn’t just a matter of love or hate. It could also be a love-hate

her worn out body back

of Jack’s death to the end

mansion at all during the

the Foster

anyone in the Foster house

was colder than ice

the courtyard, she noticed the mansion’s lights were lit, and the

chatting

paused in her

Mrs. Cooper noticed her and

expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living

on in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm and pulled her into the

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