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Was the nurse talking about Logan? She had to be. He and Nick were the same age. They didn’t look alike but they were similar in height. And not all twins were identical. But still...
This couldn’t be right. Why would the nurse wait so long to come forward?
Either way, this news was going to shatter Logan’s world. He had always prided himself on being the best mix of his mom and dad. If Juliette wasn’t his biological mom—Quinn wondered if she’d seen this story before the family. She started to text Logan but he needed to hear this in person so she raced over to his gran’s house. There were a lot of cars in the driveway, which was to be expected given that Adler was getting married on Saturday.
Now that she was there, Quinn didn’t want to just go into the house and blurt the news out. She texted Logan to meet her outside.
He was quick to respond.
Can’t. Family meeting. Talk later.
This is important, she frantically typed.
I can’t leave now. We can talk about sleeping together later.
Ok. It’s about a news thing involving you not us hooking up.
Shit. But I can’t talk now. Thanks for trying to warn me.
She realized that the news must have been delivered to the family. Quinn wasn’t sure what to do. As the wedding video producer, this didn’t affect her job. Sure, Nick and Adler would be upset, but the wedding details still needed to be filmed and everything needed to go on.
She’d focus on work.
She wasn’t Logan’s girlfriend, she told herself as she walked back to her house. But she was his friend. That hadn’t changed over the years. And with his family in shambles, whether this story was true or just someone trying to make a quick buck off the Bisset and Williams names, didn’t matter. Logan’s sense of self was his rock. It was how he defined himself. And she knew, with his competitive nature, this kind of revelation would deeply affect how he viewed himself.
Quinn got together with her team and made sure that everything was ready for the wedding rehearsal and then the dinner afterward. Given all of the recent bombshells dropping about Nick and the Bisset family, she wanted to make sure her shoot went smoothly. That at least a small part of the weekend would go as planned.
She texted Iris to see if she’d talked to Adler, and Iris called her back.
“Hey, is something up?” Iris asked. “I’m with Adler. She and her dad are talking about the walk down the aisle. She wants to make sure that he plays the right song. Apparently, he wrote something new last night. Anyway, what’s up?”
She debated telling Iris about the news story she’d read, but right now it was all unconfirmed and, for the first time since Quinn had gotten to Nantucket, Adler was doing just bride stuff. “Nothing. I was just checking on you both. Can I bring a cameraman over?”
Iris conferred with Adler and got the okay.
Quinn would do her job. If anything came of the news report then she’d be with Adler, the friend she’d actually come to Nantucket to celebrate and support.
The entire family, including Logan’s grandmother, were in the study as Carlton read them the wire story. Logan couldn’t believe what he heard. He turned to his mom, as did everyone else, and her face was ashen. From what felt like a great distance, he heard Carlton say that he’d dispute the nurse’s claim. But Logan knew that wouldn’t be necessary.
The look on his mother’s face told him the story was true.
“Jules?” his father said. “How is this possible? Nick and Logan don’t look like each other. Is it true?”
She took a deep breath, wrapping her arms around her waist as she stood there in the corner next to the floor-to-ceiling bookcases lined with books that had been in his mother’s family for generations. Though now Logan realized that wasn’t his family. There was no part of him connected by blood to his mother’s family, the Wallises. He was a Bisset, though. Maybe he should feel better about his cutthroat instincts because he might need them in this crisis.
But he didn’t.
Logan hated every second of this and as much as he wanted to rage about this secret having been kept from him, he also needed all of the details. He wanted every bit of information so that it couldn’t be used against him again.
“You know I was alone when I went into labor. Dare, you were here with Gran, and Auggie, you were away on a business trip. I met Bonnie—I mean... I guess she goes by Cora now. We were in the delivery room together. The hospital was very small and we were talking before the births. I was trying—”
“Skip to the part where you swap your dead baby for me,” Logan said.
Everyone turned on him. He knew it had been a mean thing to say, but he wasn’t interested in the long, drawn-out story with all the emotion. He was after facts. That was all he could handle at this moment.
“Don’t be such a dick,” Leo said.
“I’ll be whatever I want, she’s not my mom,” Logan said. “Right? That’s true, isn’t it?”
