Alle Kapitel von Billionaire’s Twin Deception : Kapitel 31 – Kapitel 40

JANICE'S POVI've feared one question for five years and now it's finally been asked, yet somehow the answer feels even more terrifying because once those words leave my mouth, there won't be any taking them back.The silence after Eden's question follows me through the entire night as I sit beside Jack's hospital bed listening to monitors beep softly in the darkness, and every time I look at my son, another memory rises to the surface.Discovering I was pregnant, leaving New York alone, hearing his heartbeat for the first time, celebrating every birthday, watching every first step, sitting through every fever and every nightmare, and carrying every moment Eden never saw all come rushing back at once.Jack shifts in his sleep and immediately pulls his dinosaur blanket higher, and the sight makes my chest ache because none of this was ever about regretting him.It was always about regretting what they lost.Morning arrives slowly and the hospital begins waking around us as nurses excha

JANICE'S POVJack called him Dad.The word keeps replaying inside my head while morning sunlight spills through the hospital windows, and for the first time in five years I don't push it away because hearing it felt right.I stand outside Jack's room holding a cup of terrible hospital coffee while nurses move through the corridor around me, and every few seconds I catch myself looking through the glass window.Eden is inside.Jack is talking.Neither has noticed me yet.My chest tightens because for years I imagined this moment.Now it's real and that's somehow more terrifying.The secret is gone, finally gone.I spent so long preparing for the truth to come out that I never prepared for what comes after, and now I feel strangely exposed, like somebody peeled away a layer I've been hiding behind for years.Eden knows everything or almost everything.The thought follows me back into the room.Jack is currently trying to convince Eden that dinosaurs would've been better doctors than act

JANICE'S POVThe truth is finally out.For five years I feared the revelation and spent countless nights imagining what would happen when Eden learned the truth, yet somehow everything feels more uncertain now than it did before because secrets are predictable.The future isn't.Morning arrives with good news, actual good news. The kind doctors rarely deliver without adding a dozen warnings afterward.Jack's recovery continues improving and every specialist who enters his room seems slightly more optimistic than the last, while nurses smile more often and conversations about discharge begin appearing in medical discussions.For the first time since his collapse, going home feels real.Jack takes the news exactly as expected."Days?" He stares at the doctor like she's personally insulted him. "You said days."The cardiologist barely looks impressed. "That's generally how recovery works."Jack throws both hands into the air. "I've already been trapped here forever.""You've been here tw

JANICE'S POVOne phone call changes everything.The moment I lower the phone and tell Eden someone from the press has started asking questions, the fragile peace we've spent weeks building begins cracking all over again because secrets are dangerous, but public secrets are worse."How much do they know?" Eden immediately pushes away from the window and starts walking toward me.I shake my head."I don't know."The answer sounds pathetic even to me.For a second neither of us speaks.The city glows beyond the hospital windows while distant voices drift through the hallway, but suddenly all I can hear is my own heartbeat.Because this isn't about me and never was, it's about Jack, always Jack, and that's why the next morning the hospital feels different to me, not openly dangerous but watched, as though invisible eyes are following every movement.A nurse pauses a little longer than usual while speaking to Eden, two visitors whisper near the elevators, and I catch someone taking a photo

JANICE'S POVI can't stop staring at the photograph sitting in the middle of Eden's dining table because suddenly everything makes sense and absolutely nothing does.The surveillance image remains spread out beneath the apartment lights while nobody says a word for several seconds, and the silence feels heavier than any argument we've had so far.Amanda breaks first."Oh, hell no."Nobody disagrees.Eden remains staring at the image.Not defending her, not exactly.Just struggling to connect the woman he knew with the woman sitting across from a reporter investigating his family.Richard leans forward and rubs a hand across his jaw."Maybe there's another explanation."Amanda immediately turns toward him."Name one."Richard opens his mouth, then closes it.Amanda points at him. "Exactly."Despite everything, a tiny part of me almost laughs because nothing about this feels funny.Amara flips through several documents."The meeting wasn't a one-time event."That gets everyone's attenti