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

 

His breathing was shallow and his eyes

 

you’re this sick?” Avery said as she held her father’s

 

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

 

you get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn’t you use that to help

 

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

 

Wanda heartlessly

 

not

 

He had always loved her, and she did not want to

 

the family really doesn’t have much money,” Avery sniffled as she stood crying by the bed. “Dad, I really hope you

 

a deaf ear

 

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 mother… I’ll make it up to both of you in the

 

hand holding hers suddenly

 

tore through the

 

throbbed in

 

her world underwent

 

married and pregnant, and

 

child herself, but life swept her up and pushed her

 

was a

 

funeral, not since the fall of

 

to a hotel with the

 

like a flock

 

were the only ones left

 

were as dark as

 

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

 

voice, “I do. Even if he’s dead, I

 

Avery did not understand.

 

you

 

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

 

Avery dragged her worn out body back to Elliot’s

 

the end of the funeral, the process had

 

not return to the mansion at all

 

Foster family contacted

 

did not tell anyone in the Foster house

 

colder than ice

 

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

 

to the nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses in their

 

in

 

Mrs. Cooper noticed her and

 

the liveliness of the living room, but

 

said as she held Avery’s arm and pulled her into the

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