Thursday, April 9, 2026: Today on The Young and the Restless, Stephanie and Malcolm are forced to discuss their complicated past, Lily leans on Traci for guidance, and Claire sees a new side to Holden.
Malcolm reveals that he is Holden’s biological father, leaving Lily stunned to learn Holden is also her brother.
Lily joins Traci at the Abbott estate. She says her whole world is imploding.
Choking up, she explains that Devon is angry with her and she feels like she can’t talk to him right now.
Lily adds that Malcolm confided in her and she has to tell someone. Traci promises to keep her confidence.
She’s sorry to hear Malcolm isn’t well. Lily fills her in on the bone marrow donation and how she can’t help him with it.
Traci holds her as she sobs.
Lily fills her in about the blood disorder. His aplastic anemia could be cured if addressed early.
She cries about how she couldn’t save Neil and now she can’t save Malcolm due to her past cancer treatment.
Traci tells her this isn’t her fault and assures her she can find other ways to help.
Lily doesn’t know what she will do if she loses Malcolm too. She lost her mom and the best dad in the world.
Traci tells her there is always a reason to hope. She needs to believe there will be a positive outcome.
Lily sees that Malcolm texted her. Traci urges her to tell him she can’t be a donor immediately.
Lily feels like she’s letting him down, but Traci promises she’s not. Malcolm will understand and not blame her.
Lily thanks her for always being there for her.
Stephanie tells Holden what he needs to do to test for being a donor to Malcolm. His newfound father says he doesn’t need to agree to donate now, just to find out if he’s a viable option.
Holden agrees to do that much. Malcolm is sorry he’s being blindsided by this.
Stephanie walks off to arrange a test.
The men talk. Holden grew up wishing he had brothers. He can’t believe he’s Lily’s brother.
Malcolm hopes they are on good terms. Holden explains it’s less tense than it was. They are civil.
He admits this all feels surreal. He has no memories of Jerry, but the fact that his mom sat on this for decades blows his mind.
Malcolm says he has the right to be angry. Holden just feels numb.
Malcolm would like to process this but has no time. He feels like he’s “drinking through a fire hose going full blast.” He hopes Holden will want a relationship.
Stephanie returns to remind them the disease is very treatable. A clinic can see Holden this afternoon.
After he heads over, Malcolm asks her how she could have kept his son from him.
She admits she can’t totally justify it. She didn’t want to disrupt his life.
They flash back to how Dru and Neil set them up. They didn’t hit it off at first, but they had some fun later and remember how good the looked in spandex.
The spark fizzled and she left.
He says she had no right to keep the child from him. She’s sure he would have resented a kid in his life at the time.
“I guess we’ll never know,” he says.
She can’t change what she did and admits she likely never would have told him the truth if he wasn’t dying.
He has to go and see Lily and fill her in about having a brother. It won’t be the first time she’s had a bomb like this dropped on her.
In a shocking twist that left fans stunned, the complicated relationship between Kim Burgess and Adam Ruzek takes another dramatic turn — this time with unexpected pregnancy news that changes everything.
It all begins after an emotional and intimate moment between the two. What seemed like a fleeting connection quickly turns into something far more serious when Burgess discovers she’s pregnant — and Ruzek is the father.
The news hits hard. Not just for Ruzek, but for Burgess herself, who finds herself completely overwhelmed by the reality of the situation.
With a dangerous job, an unstable life, and a relationship still full of unresolved tension, Burgess is forced to face the hardest question of her life:
Should she keep the baby… or let it go?
At first, she hesitates. The timing feels wrong, the risks feel too high. Ruzek, equally shaken, struggles to process it all — but makes one thing clear: he will stand by her, no matter what she decides.
The pressure builds as both of them realize that this isn’t just about love anymore — it’s about responsibility, fear, and the unknown future ahead.
After a deeply emotional case, Burgess begins to see things differently. The idea of becoming a mother slowly starts to feel right. Against all odds, she decides to keep the baby.
For a brief moment, it seems like hope has returned.
But then… everything falls apart.
During a dangerous mission, Burgess is brutally attacked. The consequences are devastating — she loses the baby before it ever has a chance to be born.
The loss shatters both of them.
In an instant, hope turns into heartbreak, leaving fans completely devastated by one of the most emotional storylines in the series.
The tragedy doesn’t just take the baby — it leaves a deep emotional scar between them. Burgess shuts down, drowning in grief, while Ruzek is left feeling helpless and broken.
And yet, somehow, this shared pain begins to pull them back toward each other.