His Eagle Eyes on Me

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

breathing was shallow and his eyes were barely open. When he

his arm in

sick?" Avery said as she held her father's cold hand. Tears welled up in her eyes. "That's easy for you to say! Where would we get the money to take your father to the hospital?"

said, "Didn't you get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn't you use that

owes? Don't look at me like I ate your money up, Avery! Besides, your father's illness can't be cured!

Wanda heartlessly stormed out

did not leave

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

family really doesn't have much money," Avery sniffled as she stood crying by the bed. "Dad, I really hope you get

turned a deaf ear to

looked at her with eyes filled with

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

holding hers

shrill cry tore through

throbbed

her world underwent an

pregnant, and

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

funeral was a

the funeral, not

to a hotel with the

crowd scattered like a

the

were as dark as the

Avery asked as she stared

said in a dull voice, "I do. Even if he's dead, I

Avery did not understand.

are you

complicated, Avery. It isn't just a matter of love or

worn out

day of Jack's death to the end of the funeral, the process had

return to the mansion at

Foster family

not tell anyone in the

was colder

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

the nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses in their

paused in her

Mrs. Cooper noticed her and

cold and pitiful expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room, but the smile on Mrs. Cooper's face tensed as she hesitated. "It's raining outside. Come on in!" Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery's arm and pulled her into the living

black trench coat with her slender, fair calves peeping out from underneath the hem. On her feet were a pair of

which was different from her

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