Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband novel Chapter 524

(Jayden)

The kids are sprawled across the living room floor, their energy buzzing like they’ve downed three bags of sugar each. Henry’s babbling as he stacks blocks, while Abbey and Sarah argue about whether they should play schools or princesses.

Bobby is pretending not to care, phone in hand. Anne is at the shops.

It’s noisy and busy, just like normal.

I think of Winona and Lisa. I wonder how they are going with the meeting? I pat my pocket, then the other side.

“Guys, I left my phone outside on the bench. Try not to kill each other and watch Henry while I go and grab it.”

They all look at me and nod and keep doing what they are doing. Henry seems taken with his blocks, so I whip out through the kitchen and out the back door.

I see I’ve missed a call and she’s left a message. I scoop up my phone and head back inside to listen to the message. I won’t call back yet, they may be in the meeting still.

I hurry back in and check out the kids. No one has moved. Great. I listen to the message to call Winona back right away. I hope it’s good news. Her voice sounds different.

I hit the speed dial.

“Hey, babe,” I say. “I missed your call. What’s up?” There’s a lot of background noise.

“I’m in emergency.”

“Shit, are you okay?” My heart hammers.

“Yes. It’s Lisa. I’m waiting outside her cubicle until they call me.”

“What happened?”

“The ER’s a madhouse, but I’m not leaving until I talk to her.”

“Is Lisa okay?” I ask, glancing at Bobby as he casually takes a block from Henry’s tower. The kid’s going to lose it if that thing collapses.

“Jayden,” she says, and her tone shifts. There’s something there—something heavy. “You might want to sit down for this.”

I frown, the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. “I’m fine. Just tell me.”

“The person Lisa was meeting today wasn’t the CEO like she thought,” she starts, her voice trembling slightly. “It was the CFO of Lance’s charities.”

“Okay…” I prompt, sensing there’s more. “What does that have to do with Lisa being in emergency?”

“Jayden, the CFO… it’s Lance’s twin brother. Like identical twin.”

“What?”

“Lance’s identical twin,” she repeats. “His name is Logan Bennett. Same face, same build, but neater. Polished. Like... a buttoned-up Lance.”

I can’t breathe. “Are you kidding me right now?”

“No. He said Lance found him about a year ago,” she continues, her words rushing out like she’s trying to process them as she says them. “Logan thought we knew, but Lance... He never told me. Did he ever tell you?”

“No,” I say, my voice rough. “Not a word.”

“It’s just like Lance,” she says, quietly as if she’s afraid to speak of him with me. “Always full of surprises, always pulling some kind of stunt.”

I sit down heavily on the couch, my mind spinning. Lance had a twin? A whole twin, walking around with the same damn face, and he didn’t think to mention it?

Winona’s voice pulls me back. “Jayden, are you okay?”

I lean forward, running a hand through my hair. “I don’t know. I just… I can’t believe it. Lance was my best friend. Well until…” I can’t say it out loud. “We told each other everything—or at least I thought we did. Why would he keep something like this from us?”