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

 

breathing was shallow and his eyes were barely open. When he saw Avery, he raised his arm

 

sick?” Avery said as she held her father’s cold hand. Tears welled

 

Where would we get the money to take your father to

 

a large sum of money from the

 

company owes? Don’t look at me like I ate your money up, Avery! Besides, your

 

Wanda

 

not leave

 

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

 

really doesn’t have much money,” Avery

 

deaf ear to

 

his voice was low as he said, “Avery… My darling girl… I’ve failed

 

large hand holding hers

 

tore through the

 

heart throbbed in

 

underwent an earth-shattering

 

pregnant, and her father was

 

had thought that she was just still just a child herself, but life swept her up and pushed her into a lonely, hopeless

 

of the funeral was a gloomy and rainy

 

attended the funeral, not since the fall of

 

the service, Wanda went to a hotel with

 

a

 

the only

 

as dark as the gray

 

you hate Dad, Mom?” Avery asked as she stared at her father’s

 

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

 

Avery did not understand.

 

you crying?”

 

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

 

Avery dragged her worn out body back to

 

end of the funeral, the process had taken

 

the mansion

 

the Foster family

 

not tell anyone in the Foster

 

colder than

 

she noticed the mansion’s lights were lit, and the living room was filled with

 

the nines and chatting away

 

paused in her

 

noticed

 

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

 

in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm and

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