EXCLUSIVE WEDNESDAY CANADIAN Y&R DAY AHEAD: Holden Novak Is Malcolm Winters’ SECRET SON!

MALCOLM WINTERS HAS A SON HE NEVER KNEW ABOUT AND HIS NAME IS HOLDEN NOVAK

TL;DR: Dr. Stephanie Simmons dropped a bomb on Wednesday’s episode of The Young and the Restless that changes everything. Holden Novak is Malcolm Winters’ biological son. She was pregnant when she left for her residency in New York, married Jerry, and never told Malcolm the truth. Now Malcolm needs a stem cell donor, Lily Winters cannot help because of her cancer history, and Holden is the genetic jackpot nobody saw coming. Meanwhile, Phyllis Summers offered Cane Ashby a job running her AI program and he told her there is nothing healthy about a friendship with her.

Malcolm Winters Has a Son

Let that sit for a moment.

Malcolm Winters walked into Crimson Lights and Dr. Stephanie Simmons looked him in the eye and told him that Holden Novak is his biological son. Not a maybe. Not a suspicion. A fact she has been carrying since before Holden was born.

Stephanie was pregnant with Malcolm’s child when she left for her residency in New York. She met Jerry. Jerry was brilliant and kind and loved them both. They talked about telling Malcolm the truth, but he had moved on with Olivia, and Stephanie and Jerry decided that raising Holden as theirs was the best thing for everyone. Then she heard Malcolm had died. She moved on. Jerry passed. And the secret stayed buried until Malcolm Winters showed up in Genoa City needing a stem cell donor and his only known biological daughter cannot help him.

Lily Winters cannot be Malcolm’s donor. Her cancer history makes her non-viable. She found out by phone while sitting alone at the GCAC and the devastation on her face was immediate. She came into this day believing she could save her father. She is leaving it knowing she cannot.

Holden is Malcolm’s best chance. He is the match nobody knew existed. And the look on his face when Stephanie told him Jerry was not his biological father was the look of a man whose entire identity shifted in a single sentence.

Do you think Holden Novak will agree to be Malcolm Winters’ donor? Send your wildest theories to [email protected] and we just might publish them!

Holden Novak Just Found Out Who He Is

Holden sat at Crimson Lights thinking Stephanie wanted to talk about medical history. Instead she told him his father was not his father and the man who actually shares his DNA was sitting across the room needing his help to survive.

Malcolm and Holden’s first meeting was awkward and loaded with everything neither of them knew how to say. Malcolm told him he needs stem cell treatment. Holden called himself “the genetic jackpot.” Stephanie begged her son to get tested.

Here is the detail that landed hardest. When Malcolm mentioned that his daughter is Lily, Holden’s face changed. He knows Lily. He has been orbiting her world through Cane Ashby‘s scheming. And now she is his sister.

Malcolm Winters has a son he never knew about, a daughter who cannot save him, and a medical team that has followed him from New York because the clock is ticking. Stephanie told them all to focus on what is in front of them. What is in front of them is a family that did not know it existed twelve hours ago.

Phyllis Summers Offered Cane Ashby a Job and He Said No in the Most Cane Way Possible

Phyllis Summers found Cane at the bar and did what Phyllis does. She poked. She prodded. She told him he has nothing going on and offered him the chief of her AI program because she is “lovely and kind” and they “have fun.”

Cane told her there is nothing healthy about a friendship with her. Any connection with her is a trap. He reminded her he could always build another AI and come after her. He could steal Newman and give it to Victor Newman just to watch her squirm.

Phyllis said people just hate what they do not understand. Cane said pity is all anyone has for her. These two in a room together is like watching two people who cannot stand each other but also cannot stop engaging, and Phyllis offering Cane a job she knows he will refuse is the most Phyllis move of the entire week.

Cane is not taking the job. Cane is not forgiving Phyllis. And Cane is not done scheming, because he sat down next to a clearly upset Lily, offered to listen, and she turned him away. He is watching. He is waiting. And he has plans that do not include being Phyllis Summers’ employee.

Which storyline has you more shook: Malcolm’s secret son or Phyllis trying to recruit Cane into her empire? Sound off below because Wednesday is LOADED!

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@soapoperamag Introducing Mr. Holden WINTERS! Are you shocked? I'm not. The second Stephanie called Holden her son we knew it was coming. Plus, why not make this handsome man a legacy player?! Love it! How do you feel about this big reveal, though? #YoungandtheRestless #YR ♬ original sound – Soap Opera Magazine