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

 

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

 

didn’t you go to the hospital if you’re this sick?” Avery said as she held her father’s cold hand. Tears welled up

 

the money to take

 

up as she said, “Didn’t you get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn’t you use

 

money your father’s company owes? Don’t look

 

saying such cruel words, Wanda

 

did not leave with

 

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

 

treated, but the family really doesn’t have much

 

turned a deaf ear

 

“Avery… My darling girl… I’ve failed you… I’ve failed your mother…

 

holding

 

tore through

 

throbbed in

 

her world underwent

 

married and pregnant, and her

 

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

 

day of the funeral was a gloomy and

 

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

 

went to a hotel with the

 

crowd scattered like a flock

 

Laura were the only ones

 

were as dark

 

asked as she stared at her

 

a dull voice, “I do.

 

Avery did not understand.

 

why are you crying?” she

 

sighed. “Relationships are complicated, Avery. It isn’t just a matter of love or hate.

 

her worn out body back to

 

the day of Jack’s death to the end of

 

to the mansion at all

 

Foster family contacted her

 

not tell anyone in the

 

was colder than ice and frostier than

 

Avery stepped into the courtyard, she noticed the mansion’s lights were

 

nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses in their

 

in her

 

Cooper noticed

 

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

 

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

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