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

 

on the bed. His breathing was shallow and his eyes were barely open. When he

 

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

 

you to say! Where would we get the money to take your father to the hospital?”

 

sum of money from the Fosters? Why

 

you know how much money your father’s company owes? Don’t look at me like I ate your money up, Avery! Besides, your father’s illness can’t be

 

words, Wanda heartlessly stormed out

 

did not leave with

 

the day, Jack was still her father. He had always loved her, and she did not want to lose

 

but the family really doesn’t have much money,” Avery sniffled as she stood crying by the bed. “Dad, I really hope you get through

 

turned a deaf

 

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

 

holding

 

tore through the

 

throbbed in

 

her world underwent

 

pregnant,

 

herself, but

 

the funeral was

 

the funeral, not since the fall of the

 

the service, Wanda went to

 

crowd scattered like a flock of

 

were the

 

dark as

 

as she

 

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

 

Avery did not understand.

 

you crying?” she

 

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

 

worn out body

 

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

 

not return to the mansion at all during

 

the Foster family

 

did not tell anyone in the Foster house

 

relationship with Elliot was colder than ice and frostier

 

stepped into the courtyard, she noticed the mansion’s lights

 

and chatting away merrily

 

paused in

 

Cooper noticed her and rushed

 

pitiful expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room, but the

 

as she held

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