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.
straight to the master
lying on the bed. His breathing was shallow and his eyes were barely open. When he
go to the hospital if you’re this sick?” Avery said as
to say! Where would we get the money to take your father to the hospital?” Wanda
she said, “Didn’t you get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn’t you use that to help
debts! Do you know how much money your father’s company owes? Don’t look at me like I ate your
such cruel words, Wanda heartlessly stormed out
did not leave with
He had always loved her, and she did not want to lose
get you treated, but the family really doesn’t have
a deaf ear
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
large hand holding
tore through
throbbed in
her world underwent an earth-shattering
pregnant, and her father
just still just a child herself, but life swept her up and
the funeral was a gloomy and rainy
the funeral, not since the fall of
went to a hotel with the
scattered like a flock
the only ones left
as dark as the
Dad, Mom?” Avery asked as she stared at her
her gaze and said in a dull voice, “I
Avery did not understand.
you crying?”
I loved him,” Laura sighed. “Relationships are complicated, Avery. It isn’t just a matter of
worn out body
Jack’s death to the end of the funeral, the
not return to the mansion
from the Foster family contacted her
in the Foster house about her
colder than
noticed the mansion’s lights were lit, and the living room
dressed to the nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses in
in
noticed her and
in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room, but the smile on Mrs. Cooper’s
on in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm
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