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 to the
bed. His breathing was shallow and his eyes were barely open. When he saw
to the hospital if you’re this sick?” Avery said as
the money to take your
large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn’t you use
“We used that money to pay off the debts! Do you know how much money your father’s company owes? Don’t
cruel words, Wanda
did not leave
still her father. He had
mad at her, Dad. It’s not that she didn’t want to get you treated, but the family really doesn’t have much money,” Avery sniffled as she stood crying by the bed. “Dad, I really hope you get through
turned a deaf ear to Avery’s
tears. His lips trembled and his voice was low as he said, “Avery… My darling girl… I’ve failed you… I’ve failed your mother…
large hand holding hers suddenly
shrill cry tore through the
heart throbbed in
underwent an earth-shattering
pregnant, and her father
had thought that she was just still just a child herself, but life swept her
day of the funeral was a gloomy and rainy
attended the funeral, not since
went to a hotel with the
scattered like a flock of
and Laura were the only ones left at the
were as dark as
Mom?” Avery asked as she stared at her father’s gravestone
gaze and said in a dull voice, “I do. Even if he’s dead, I will never
Avery did not understand.
are you crying?” she
It isn’t just a
dragged her worn out
to the end of the funeral, the process had taken
return to the mansion at
Foster family contacted
tell anyone in the Foster house about her father’s
Elliot was colder than ice and frostier
she noticed the mansion’s lights were lit, and
the nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses
paused in her
noticed her and
in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room, but
Cooper said as she held Avery’s
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