Hiding His Twins From The Underboss

Hiding His Twins From The Underboss

Xiao Yan

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I saved a man bleeding out in the snow. He had no memory, so I called him Ben. We lived in a cabin, fell in love, and married by firelight with no witnesses but the ghosts of my parents. Then one day, he disappeared. Two years later, he returned. Not as my husband, but as Bernard Logan, the ruthless Underboss of the city's most dangerous crime family. And he didn't remember me. He brought his cruel new fiancée to my clinic and treated me like a stranger. When she threw my father's antique music box into a cactus display, he watched as I tore my hands apart trying to save it. He called our past a "drug-induced hallucination" and threatened to destroy me if I spoke up. Worst of all, I found out I was pregnant. He cornered me in the hospital room, his eyes cold and devoid of the warmth I used to know. "Is it mine?" I knew if I said yes, he would turn my child into a killer like him. Or his fiancée would ensure we never survived. So I looked the love of my life in the eye and lied. "No," I said. "It's not yours." I signed his NDA, took his hush money, and vanished to Europe to raise my twins alone. I thought I was free. I found a good man who actually loved me. But three years later, at an art gallery in Zurich, the crowd parted. Bernard was standing there, staring at me with a terrifying hunger. He had found out the truth. And he was ready to burn the world down to get us back.

Chapter 1

I saved a man bleeding out in the snow. He had no memory, so I called him Ben.

We lived in a cabin, fell in love, and married by firelight with no witnesses but the ghosts of my parents.

Then one day, he disappeared.

Two years later, he returned. Not as my husband, but as Bernard Logan, the ruthless Underboss of the city's most dangerous crime family.

And he didn't remember me.

He brought his cruel new fiancée to my clinic and treated me like a stranger.

When she threw my father's antique music box into a cactus display, he watched as I tore my hands apart trying to save it.

He called our past a "drug-induced hallucination" and threatened to destroy me if I spoke up.

Worst of all, I found out I was pregnant.

He cornered me in the hospital room, his eyes cold and devoid of the warmth I used to know.

"Is it mine?"

I knew if I said yes, he would turn my child into a killer like him. Or his fiancée would ensure we never survived.

So I looked the love of my life in the eye and lied.

"No," I said. "It's not yours."

I signed his NDA, took his hush money, and vanished to Europe to raise my twins alone.

I thought I was free. I found a good man who actually loved me.

But three years later, at an art gallery in Zurich, the crowd parted.

Bernard was standing there, staring at me with a terrifying hunger.

He had found out the truth.

And he was ready to burn the world down to get us back.

Chapter 1

Addison POV

The patient file Dr. Miles slapped onto my desk carried a warning label in red ink, but the name printed underneath was the real lethal weapon: Evelin Bennett, the future wife of the man I buried in my heart two years ago.

I stared at the folder.

My chest felt like someone had swung a sledgehammer against my ribs.

"You have five minutes to prep, Addison," Dr. Miles said, checking his watch. "The Bennett family does not wait. And neither does the Logan crime family."

The name *Logan* sucked the oxygen out of the room.

I knew that name.

Everyone in the city knew that name.

Bernard Logan. The Butcher. The Underboss.

But to me, he was just Ben.

He was the man I had found bleeding out in the snow near my father's cabin two years ago.

He was the man with no memory who had learned to chop wood and fix my leaky roof.

He was the man I had married in a living room lit only by firelight, with no witnesses but the ghosts of my parents.

He was the man who went out for supplies one morning and never came back.

I thought the wolves had gotten him.

Or the winter.

I spent months searching the ravine, screaming his name until my throat bled.

I sold my father's antique music box-the only thing I had left of my childhood-to pay for the surgeries that saved his life.

And now he was back.

Not as Ben.

But as a monster.

I walked down the hallway of the clinic, my legs feeling like they were moving through wet cement.

I could hear a woman's voice from inside the VIP suite.

"He is so cold, Dr. Addison," the voice whined. "It is like sleeping next to a statue."

I pushed the door open.

Evelin Bennett was draped over the velvet chaise like a bored cat.

She was beautiful in the way a diamond is beautiful-hard, cold, and expensive.

She held up her phone.

"Look at him," she said. "He disappears for two years, comes back to take over the city, and acts like I am a piece of furniture."

She thrust the screen toward me.

I looked.

It was him.

He was wearing a suit that fit him like armor.

His eyes were dark, devoid of the warmth I used to see when he looked at me across the dinner table.

Behind him was the logo of Logan Enterprises.

The front for the mob.

My stomach turned over.

"He is handsome, isn't he?" Evelin asked, pulling the phone back. "But he is damaged goods. Amnesia, they say. He remembers nothing from those two years."

My heart stopped.

He didn't remember.

He didn't remember the cabin.

He didn't remember the vows.

He didn't remember me.

The door to the suite opened behind me.

The air pressure in the room dropped.

I smelled it before I saw him.

Gunpowder and expensive cologne.

I turned around.

Bernard Logan stood in the doorway.

He was bigger than I remembered.

Broader.

Meaner.

His gaze swept the room, assessing threats, before landing on me.

I waited for the spark.

I waited for the recognition.

I waited for Ben to come back to me.

Bernard looked me in the eye.

There was no spark.

There was only the cold, dead stare of a shark looking at a seal.

"Addison, is it?" he asked. His voice was deep, scraping against my nerves.

I nodded, unable to speak.

He walked past me as if I were invisible.

He went to Evelin and placed a hand on her shoulder.

It was a possessive gesture.

Territorial.

Evelin leaned into him, smirking at me.

"See?" she said. "He does have a pulse."

Bernard looked at me over her head.

His eyes narrowed slightly.

It was a warning.

Silent.

Lethal.

He knew.

He remembered.

And he was telling me to keep my mouth shut or die.

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