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 the master

 

his eyes were barely open. When he

 

you’re this sick?” Avery said as

 

we get the money to take your father to the hospital?” Wanda snapped

 

you get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why

 

debts! Do 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

 

such cruel words, Wanda heartlessly

 

did not

 

father. He had always loved her, and she did not

 

she didn’t want to get you treated, but the family really doesn’t have much money,”

 

turned a deaf ear to Avery’s

 

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

 

hand holding hers suddenly let

 

shrill cry tore through

 

throbbed

 

her world underwent an earth-shattering

 

was married and pregnant, and her

 

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

 

the funeral was a gloomy

 

the funeral, not since the fall of the

 

Wanda went to a hotel

 

scattered like a flock of wild

 

and Laura were the

 

were as dark as the

 

Mom?” Avery asked as she stared at her father’s gravestone

 

“I

 

Avery did not understand.

 

why are you

 

are complicated, Avery. It isn’t just a matter of love

 

her worn out body

 

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

 

mansion at all during

 

Foster family contacted her

 

anyone in the Foster house about her father’s

 

Elliot was colder than ice

 

into the courtyard, she noticed the mansion’s lights were lit, and the living room

 

nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses

 

paused in

 

Cooper noticed

 

to the liveliness of the living room, but the smile on Mrs. Cooper’s face tensed as she

 

outside. Come on in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held

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