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

the bed. His breathing was shallow and his eyes were

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

for you to say! Where would we get the money to take your

she said, “Didn’t you get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn’t you use that

said, “We used that money to pay off the debts! Do you know how much money your father’s company owes?

words, Wanda heartlessly

did not

He had always

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

turned a deaf ear

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

hand holding hers suddenly

tore

heart throbbed in

underwent an earth-shattering

married and pregnant, and her father

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

day of the funeral was a gloomy

the funeral, not

service, Wanda went to a hotel with the

a flock of wild

were the only ones left

moods were as dark as the

asked as she stared at her father’s gravestone through

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

Avery did not understand.

you crying?” she

sighed. “Relationships are complicated, Avery. It isn’t just a matter

her worn out body back to

to the end of the funeral, the process had taken

to the mansion

the Foster family contacted her

anyone in the Foster house about her father’s

colder than ice and frostier than

she noticed the mansion’s lights were lit,

nines and chatting

in her

Mrs. Cooper noticed her

pitiful expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of the

as she held Avery’s arm and pulled her into the

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