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

 

was shallow and his eyes were barely open. When

 

you’re this sick?” Avery said

 

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

 

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

 

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 cured! He’s better

 

saying such cruel words, Wanda heartlessly stormed out of

 

not leave with

 

end of the day, Jack was still her father. He had always loved her,

 

treated, but the family really doesn’t have

 

deaf ear to

 

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

 

holding hers

 

shrill cry tore through

 

throbbed

 

underwent an

 

was married and pregnant,

 

just a child herself, but life

 

was a gloomy and rainy

 

people attended the funeral, not since the fall

 

to a hotel with

 

crowd scattered like a flock of wild

 

Avery and Laura were the only

 

moods were as dark

 

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.

 

are you

 

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

 

dragged her worn out body back to

 

end

 

mansion at all during

 

the Foster family

 

not tell anyone in the Foster

 

with Elliot was colder than ice

 

lights were

 

the nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses in their

 

in

 

noticed her

 

was because Avery’s cold and pitiful expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room, but the smile on

 

said as she held Avery’s

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