When His Eyes Opened (Avery and Elliott)

Chapter 9

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.

 

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?”

 

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! Besides, your father’s illness

 

such cruel words, Wanda

 

did not

 

He had always loved her, and she

 

doesn’t have much money,” Avery sniffled as she stood crying by the bed. “Dad, I

 

a deaf ear to

 

said, “Avery… My darling girl… I’ve failed you… I’ve failed your mother… I’ll make it up to both of you in the

 

large hand holding hers suddenly let

 

tore through

 

heart throbbed in

 

her world underwent an earth-shattering

 

and pregnant,

 

child herself, but life swept her

 

was a

 

the funeral, not

 

service, Wanda went to a hotel

 

crowd scattered like a

 

and Laura were the only ones left at

 

were as dark as the

 

Dad, Mom?” Avery asked as she stared at her father’s gravestone through teary

 

gaze and said in a dull voice, “I do. Even if he’s dead,

 

Avery did not understand.

 

you crying?” she

 

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

 

night, Avery dragged her worn out

 

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

 

to the mansion at all during the

 

Foster family contacted

 

not tell anyone in the Foster house about her father’s

 

was colder than ice

 

she noticed the mansion’s lights were lit, and the living

 

nines and chatting away

 

paused in

 

Mrs. Cooper noticed

 

was because Avery’s cold and pitiful expression stood in stark contrast to the liveliness of the living room,

 

on in!” Mrs. Cooper said as she held Avery’s arm and pulled her

 

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

 

which was

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