Y&R Spoilers: Diane is surprised to find out Cane is her son – Jack is worried

A Mother’s Secret: The Bombshell That Could Fracture the Abbotts

Genoa City – Diane Jenkins has always held secrets, but none as deeply buried as the one now threatening to upend the fragile life she has painstakingly rebuilt. It began with a feeling, an instinct she could neither ignore nor explain. Cane Ashby had never met her before, not formally.

And yet, when their paths crossed at a Chancellor-Winters event, something in his demeanor, his glance, his very presence, struck her with an unsettling familiarity.

This was different from the usual Genoa City drama. The more she observed Cane, the more she felt a strange, magnetic pull—a sense of déjà vu that wasn’t about attraction or admiration. It was primal, maternal, as if her bones remembered something her brain could not.

What no one knew—not Jack, not Kyle, not even the late Tucker McCall—was that long before she returned to reclaim her place at Jack’s side, Diane had carried and lost a child. A boy, born in a foreign country under a false identity during the darkest of her spiral years, a child she was pressured to give up.

She had convinced herself the baby hadn’t survived, a necessary lie to bury a past too painful to face. But Cane, with the piercing defiance in his eyes and a rebellious streak that echoed her own, had unearthed that buried possibility with a single look.

Unable to shake the suspicion, Diane did what she does best: she took control. Quietly, discreetly, she paid a private lab in Chicago to collect a sample of Cane’s DNA under the guise of a corporate security check. Submitting her own sample under a false name, she ensured no trail could link the inquiry back to her. The waiting nearly drove her mad, her mind spiraling into the terrifying “what ifs.”

When the results came, the silence was deafening. Sitting alone in a rental car, her hands trembling as she unfolded the document, she read the words that would change everything: a 99.997% match.

The paper shook in her hand as the world tilted. Cane Ashby—raised in Australia, adopted, a man forged by a life of his own—was her son. This revelation was not a joyful reunion; it was a ticking bomb.

If it ever came out that she had hidden another life-altering truth, it would destroy everything. Jack would never forgive her. Kyle would spiral. The Abbott family, already fraying at the edges, might never recover from the betrayal.

The situation grew more precarious when Cane, suspicious of her constant gaze, confronted her. Diane deflected, but the tremor in her voice betrayed her. He stared a moment too long, a knowing look in his eyes before he walked away.

The clock had started ticking. In a town with too many secrets and too many enemies, she knew someone else would eventually put the pieces together. And in the shadows, Victor Newman had already caught wind that Diane was hiding something—and Victor never lets a secret stay buried.