The Billionaire Twins Need A New Mommy! novel Chapter 482

Chapter 482: How Positive Are We?

"...did someone try to kill you?"

Silence followed Finn’s question. None of them spoke once those words left his mouth. All they could do was stare at each other in pure, heavy stillness.

As for Lola, she gazed down, her brows knitting together.

"Someone tried to kill me?" she whispered to herself, touching the back of her neck as an unsettling feeling crept into her heart. "Who would do such a thing?"

Back then, Loren was still alive. So Jasmine couldn’t have tried to kill her. And she didn’t think it was Lawrence either. That man had been too busy raising his daughter and nurturing his affair. Mike? He was rotting in jail, serving his time.

After a second, her mouth fell open and her heart slowed a beat.

Was it Loren? she whispered to her heart. Did she... try killing me?

Was Loren’s guilt consuming her every time she looked at Lola? Did she decide to take Lola with her? Or did she think that if Lola was gone, her own death and secrets would be buried forever?

Lola wasn’t sure, but the mere thought felt like a thorn lodged in her throat.

"I don’t know," she whispered, lifting her eyes and sparing her siblings from the bitterness swelling in her chest. "And I don’t think so. Maybe it was that time I almost drowned to death."

It was a lie.

Lola had already remembered her first life when she saved Derek from drowning. Even so, she chose this excuse because she didn’t want to think about Loren. The more she looked at that possibility, the more monstrous Loren’s image became in her mind.

Taking the cue, Penny, Slater, and Finn nodded in understanding. None of them pressed the matter further. It was obvious Lola had thought of someone, and whoever it was, they didn’t want to force her to reopen wounds she had fought so hard to heal.

"Anyway, that’s that!" Penny clapped, smiling. "The four of us—five, including my husband—are all in the same boat."

Lola forced a smile, her eyes glossing over their faces. Relief slowly replaced the bitterness in her heart, knowing she wasn’t as alone as she always felt.

"So, in your first life..." Finn leaned back, swirling his drink elegantly. "Did you also die?"

"Mhm." Lola pressed her lips. "I should be dead right now."

Their mouths formed an o-shape, only for Finn to joke, "All of us should be. Haha."

"So, how did you die?" Penny asked with curiosity, only for Slater to yell, "Penny, what do you think this is? Trauma bonding?"

"Pfft—" Lola stifled her laughter behind her hand. She rested her palm on her lap and huffed lightly. "I got into an accident."

Slater scrunched his nose. "Sis, don’t feed her more trauma! This isn’t group therapy!"

But they ignored him.

"I was paralyzed, kept in a small hospital storage room because I’d racked up a huge bill that Lawrence Young was unwilling to pay for," she said quietly. "And then Melissa helped me by pulling the plug."

"That bitch—!" Penny and Slater were about to jump to their feet, fists already clenched, when Finn reached out and stopped them.

"Easy now," Finn said. "They’ve been dealt with."

Lola nodded. "Finn is right. They’ve already paid for everything. So even if we get angry, they’re already exactly where they deserve to be." 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"That’s First Sister for you."

"Anyway." Lola motioned for Penny and Slater to sit back down. "You didn’t mention the secret society in your first life. How did you guys—how did Atlas get tangled up with that?"

Her question lingered in the air as Penny and Slater settled back. Lola’s brows rose as she studied their expressions—not reluctance, but a sense that they were figuring out where to even begin.

"Zoren." Another voice entered the conversation.

Everyone turned to see Hugo approaching them. Instead of taking an available seat, he plopped himself down on the floor, drenched head to toe. Hugging his knees, he smiled innocently.

"I need our brother alive, sis," Penny murmured, guilt weighing in her eyes. "And if keeping him alive meant he’d be part of the Secret Society, then we’d all take it."

Everyone nodded with deep breaths. None of them looked proud. More like resigned, carrying a burden they had already carried once before.

But then, Lola’s brows slowly knitted as a new thought formed in her mind.

"Penny," she called, and Penny hummed in response. "You said in your first life, you took the fall while Atlas was the one running the family business."

"Yep."

"And Atlas blamed himself because it should’ve been him."

"Uh-huh."

"And that the Bennets were just in the wrong place at the wrong time?" Lola repeated their old explanation, watching all of them nod until they didn’t with her next question.

"How positive are you that that’s the actual case?" she asked.

"First Sister, what are you insinuating?" Finn frowned. "That the Bennet family was actually chosen? And that Penny’s sentence was supposed to be..."

Finn’s words trailed off as his eyes slowly widened. Penny, Slater, and Hugo all furrowed their brows, their expressions shifting as old assumptions began to tilt.

"In hindsight, in the first life, it’s clear Global Prime Logistics was targeted," Lola said slowly, carefully organizing her thoughts. "And at that time, Atlas was the one running it. Doesn’t it make more sense that someone was targeting Atlas? But Penny interfered...?"

She paused as a chill ran down her spine.

"And the fact that my twins were delivered to him, and stolen from me."

"You guys..." Her heart skipped. "How positive are we that your case is actually closed? And not just something you were made to believe was closed?"