Genoa City continues to reel from the violent fallout in Nice, but nothing could have prepared Nate Hastings for the emotional double blow he suffers in Tuesday’s gripping episode of The Young and the Restless. First comes the heartbreak of Damian’s death, delivered cold and quiet by Lily. But then comes a betrayal far closer to home — a truth from Amy Lewis that rips through Nate like a blade.

At the start, Nate is controlled but clearly shaken. Damian may have been a difficult presence in his life, but he was still blood. Still family. Nate needed answers. What he got instead was more secrets.

Lily tries to comfort him, but Nate isn’t having it. He confronts her with bitterness, accusing her of hiding the truth and manipulating events in the shadows. “You lied to all of us,” he says, his voice cracking under the weight of his pain. For Lily, it’s a moment of reckoning — one where all her attempts to protect those she loves only seem to create more wreckage.

But just as this confrontation reaches its peak, Amy Lewis steps forward with trembling hands and a tear-streaked face. Her voice is soft, but the words land like bombs.

“I was in love with Damian,” she says. “And he loved me too.”

The room falls silent. Nate can’t speak — he can barely breathe. Amy had always spoken of Damian as a friend, a source of strength. But this? This was something deeper, something that cuts through all the assumptions Nate had clung to.

Amy explains that their relationship had grown in secret. That Damian had planned to start a new life with her — a fresh chapter far away from the violence and guilt that haunted them both. He died before he could make good on that promise.

The realization shakes Nate to his core. He feels like a stranger in his own life, as if the ground beneath him has disappeared. He had come to mourn a cousin. He leaves mourning the version of his reality he thought was true.

Lily, witnessing this implosion, stands paralyzed. Her silence now feels like betrayal. And Amy, though honest at last, can barely meet Nate’s eyes.

As Nate walks away from both women, stunned and broken, one thing is clear — nothing in Genoa City will ever be the same again.

When love, loss, and lies collide, who do you turn to when everyone you trusted is part of the pain?