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 to the

was lying on the bed. His breathing was shallow and his eyes were barely open. When he

his arm

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

get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn't

and said, "We used that money to pay off the debts! Do you know how much money your father's company owes? Don't look at me like I ate your money up, Avery!

cruel words, Wanda heartlessly stormed out of the

did not

the day, Jack was still her father. He had always loved her,

be mad at her, Dad. It's not that she didn't want to get you treated, but the family really doesn't have much money," Avery sniffled

a deaf ear

he looked at her with

darling girl... I've failed you... I've failed your mother... I'll make it up to both of you in the

holding

tore through the

heart throbbed in

her world underwent

was married and pregnant, and

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

day of the funeral was

many people attended the funeral, not

went to a hotel with

a

and Laura were the only ones left

moods were as dark as the

Mom?" Avery asked as she stared at her father's gravestone

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

Avery did not understand.

why are you

complicated, Avery. It isn't just

night, Avery dragged her worn out

to the end of the funeral, the process had

did not return to the mansion at all

from the Foster family contacted her

tell anyone in the Foster house about

colder than ice and frostier than

the courtyard, she noticed the mansion's lights were

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

in

Mrs. Cooper noticed

Avery's 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

black trench coat with her slender, fair calves peeping out from underneath the hem.

aura was chilly, which was different from her usual

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