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

 

shallow and his eyes

 

if you’re this sick?” Avery said as

 

the money to take your

 

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

 

used that money to pay off the debts! Do you know how much money your father’s company owes? Don’t look at me

 

saying such cruel words, Wanda heartlessly stormed out

 

did not leave

 

had always loved her,

 

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

 

deaf

 

said, “Avery… My darling girl… I’ve failed you… I’ve failed your mother… I’ll make it up to both of you in the next

 

hand holding hers suddenly

 

shrill cry tore

 

heart throbbed

 

her world underwent an

 

married and pregnant,

 

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

 

day of the funeral was a

 

the funeral, not since the fall of the

 

Wanda went to a hotel with the

 

a

 

long, Avery and Laura were the only

 

dark

 

as she stared at her father’s gravestone through

 

gaze and said in a dull voice, “I do. Even if he’s dead, I will never forgive

 

Avery did not understand.

 

are you crying?” she

 

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

 

dragged her worn out body

 

end of the funeral, the

 

mansion

 

Foster family contacted

 

anyone in the Foster

 

was colder than ice and frostier than

 

lights

 

was dressed to the nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses in

 

paused in her

 

Cooper noticed her

 

Avery’s cold and pitiful expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room, but the smile on Mrs. Cooper’s face

 

Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm and pulled

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