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
on the bed. His breathing was shallow and his eyes were
the hospital if you’re this sick?” Avery said as she held
for you to say! Where would we get the money to take your father to the
“Didn’t you get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn’t you use that to
father’s company owes? Don’t look at me like I ate your money up, Avery!
cruel words, Wanda heartlessly stormed
not leave
of the day, Jack was still her father. He had always loved her, and she did not want
you treated, but the family really doesn’t have much money,” Avery
deaf ear to Avery’s
low as he said, “Avery… My darling girl… I’ve failed you… I’ve failed your mother… I’ll
hand holding hers suddenly let
cry tore through the
heart throbbed in
underwent an
and pregnant,
was just still just a child herself, but life swept her up and pushed her into a lonely,
of the funeral was
not since the fall of the
service, Wanda went to a
scattered like a
Laura were the only
dark as the gray
Avery asked as she stared
“I do. Even if
Avery did not understand.
you crying?” she
Laura sighed. “Relationships are complicated, Avery. It isn’t just a matter
dragged her worn
death to the end of the funeral, the
to the mansion at all during the
the Foster family
in the Foster
was colder than ice
stepped into the courtyard, she noticed the mansion’s lights were lit, and the living
and chatting away merrily
in her
Mrs. Cooper noticed her and rushed
because Avery’s cold and pitiful expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room, but the smile on
Come on in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held
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