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

 

and his eyes were barely open. When he saw Avery,

 

the hospital if you’re this sick?” Avery said as she held her

 

to say! Where would we get the money to take your father to

 

“Didn’t you get a large sum

 

Do you know how much money your father’s company owes? Don’t

 

cruel words, Wanda heartlessly stormed out of the

 

did not leave with

 

day, Jack was still her father. He had always loved her, and she did

 

get you treated, but the family really doesn’t have much money,” Avery sniffled as she stood crying by the

 

deaf ear

 

her 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 next

 

large hand holding hers

 

shrill cry tore

 

heart throbbed in

 

underwent an

 

was married and pregnant,

 

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

 

funeral was

 

many people attended the funeral, not since the fall of the

 

to a

 

a flock of

 

Avery and Laura were the only ones left

 

dark as the

 

asked as she stared

 

lowered her gaze and said in a dull voice, “I do. Even

 

Avery did not understand.

 

are you crying?” she

 

just a matter

 

dragged her worn out body back to Elliot’s

 

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

 

not return to the mansion at

 

the Foster

 

anyone in the

 

relationship with Elliot was colder than

 

mansion’s lights were lit, and the living

 

nines and chatting away merrily with wine

 

in her

 

Mrs. Cooper noticed her and rushed

 

Avery’s cold and pitiful expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of

 

raining outside. Come on in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm and pulled her into the living

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