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.
Laura took her straight to the master bedroom.
Jack Tate was lying on the bed. His breathing was shallow and his eyes were barely open. When he saw Avery, he raised his arm in her direction.
“Dad, why 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 in her eyes.
“That’s easy for you to say! Where would we get the money to take your father to the hospital?” Wanda snapped frostily.
Avery’s head shot up as she said, “Didn’t you get a large sum of money from the Fosters? Why didn’t you use that to help Dad?”
money your father’s company owes?
such cruel words, Wanda
not leave with
Jack was still her father. He had
not that she didn’t want to get you treated, but the family really doesn’t have much money,” Avery sniffled as she stood crying by the bed. “Dad,
deaf
and his voice was low as he said, “Avery… My darling
hand holding hers suddenly
shrill cry tore through
heart throbbed
underwent an
was married and pregnant, and her father was
thought that she was just still just a child herself, but life swept her up
the funeral was
not since the fall of the
service, Wanda went to a hotel
like a
and Laura were the only ones
dark
you hate Dad, Mom?” Avery asked as she stared at her father’s gravestone through teary
“I do. Even if
Avery did not understand.
are you crying?”
“Relationships are complicated, Avery. It isn’t just a matter of love or hate. It could also be a love-hate
worn out body back to Elliot’s
end of the funeral, the process had
mansion at all during
the Foster family contacted
in the Foster house about
relationship with Elliot was colder than ice and frostier
mansion’s lights were lit, and the living room was filled with
to the nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses
paused in her
noticed her
the liveliness of the
Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s
with her slender, fair calves peeping out from underneath the hem. On her
was chilly, which was different
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