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?”
your father’s company owes? Don’t look at me like I ate your money up, Avery! Besides, your father’s illness can’t be cured! He’s
Wanda heartlessly stormed out
not leave with
Jack was still her father. He had always loved her, and she did not want to lose
treated, but the family really doesn’t have much money,”
deaf ear to
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
large hand holding hers suddenly let
cry tore through the
heart throbbed in
underwent an
pregnant, and her father
child herself, but life swept her up and pushed
day of the funeral was a gloomy and rainy
people attended the funeral, not since
the service, Wanda went to
crowd scattered like a flock of wild
and Laura were the only
moods were as dark as the gray
Dad, Mom?” Avery asked as she stared at her father’s gravestone
her gaze and said in a dull voice, “I
Avery did not understand.
are you crying?” she
isn’t just a matter of love or hate. It could also be
Avery dragged her worn out body back
the day of Jack’s death to the end of the funeral, the
mansion
from the Foster family contacted her
tell anyone in the Foster house about her father’s
Elliot was colder than
she noticed the mansion’s lights were lit, and
to the nines and chatting away merrily with wine glasses in their
paused in
Cooper noticed her and rushed
liveliness of
Come on in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm and pulled her into the
peeping out from underneath the
aura was chilly, which was different from
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