Billionaire’s Twin Deception のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 7

JANICE’S POV“Tell me the fucking truth.” Eden’s voice sounds broken. “Who the hell are you?”“I can explain,” I whisper, but even I hear how broken the words sound.“Explain what?” His laugh comes out sharp and ugly. “Explain why I spent months grieving one woman while falling in love with another one wearing her face?”My stomach drops so hard I almost lose my balance. Fluorescent lights burn overhead, too white, and cold, making the hospital hallway feel unreal while funeral flowers downstairs still fill the air with that sickly sweet smell Chloe always hated.Eden looks destroyed in the kind of quiet way that feels worse because his grief is sitting right there in front of me, raw enough to choke on.His hands are shaking, Eden Duncan never shakes. “I didn’t mean for this to happen,” I whisper, and immediately hate how pathetic it sounds.His eyes shut for one rough second before he drags a hand through his hair hard enough to look painful. “Then what exactly did you mean for?” he

JANICE’S POV‘Impossible’, the word sits plainly on Eden Duncan’s face while he stares at me across the kitchen. His eyes stay locked on mine for one second too long, and my stomach twists hard enough to make breathing difficult.The kitchen keeps moving around us but all of it feels distant and muted because Eden is looking at me like he’s trying to solve a problem that shouldn’t exist.I force my attention back to the plate in front of me. “Table fourteen.”“Yes, Chef.” The line moves instantly. Better, focus on work not the man standing twenty feet away holding five years of buried mistakes in his hands without even knowing it.A server rushes forward for pickup, I hand off the plate without looking toward management again.That should help but it doesn’t, I can still feel him watching, my fingers pause over the garnish barely a second, but long enough to annoy the hell out of me. I haven’t hesitated on the line in years.Why won’t he stop looking at me? “Chef.” I glance toward Ce

JANICE’S POVThe photograph where me and Eden was is gone, the one Jack found was Chloe and Eden which I thought I threw away.I know exactly where I left it, top shelf of the hallway closet. Inside a faded storage box buried beneath old winter clothes and things I never look at anymore.I pull everything out, boxes, blankets, old paperwork but found nothing. My hands shake harder with every passing minute. “No……no……no.”I search the same shelf again and again. Then a fourth time. My hands won’t slow down even after my brain accepts what my eyes already know.The photograph is gone and all I can think about is Jack. The questions, the way he’d looked at me last night and the way he’d asked again.I sink onto the edge of the couch, maybe I misplaced it but I know better because children find things, notice things and my Jack notices everything.A small voice interrupts my thoughts. “Mama?” I look up, Jack stands in the hallway wearing dinosaur pajamas.Hair sticking up everywhere, slee

EDEN'S POVI should be thinking about Janice. Maybe even Chloe. Instead, my thoughts keep returning to the boy, Jack.I stare at the report open on my desk for nearly a full minute before realizing I haven't read a single word.My eyes are moving but my brain isn't. Instead, I see a small kid standing in a school uniform talking about dinosaurs like they personally know him.I close the file and immediately open another one. Three pages later, I'm thinking about Jack again.A knock sounds against the office door. "Come in." Richard walks inside carrying a tablet and one look at my face is apparently enough. "You look distracted.""I'm not." He snorts. "That's the most distracted you've looked in years." I lean back in my chair. "Do you have a reason for being here?""Besides protecting the company from whatever existential crisis you're having?""I'm not having a crisis." He sits on the chair across from me and he doesn't leave.Richard has known me too long, long enough to recognize