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Meanwhile in
the living room, Frederick greets his children into his home. "I can't thank
you enough for all coming tonight," he says as Meggan drinks some sparkling
water while Lukas, Daisy and Leah all have a glass of red wine in their hands.
"We all agreed that we wanted to hear you out," Meggan replies
to her father. "Whatever this announcement is, we wanted to support you by
hearing you out."
"I appreciate that," Frederick smiles
back to his daughter. "Please, everyone, come be seated. I'll have the chef
bring out the first course."
Lukas and Meggan move to the table
while Daisy and Leah share a quiet moment together.
"Are you ready
for this?" Daisy asks her in a whisper.
Leah nervously shrugs back
to her. "As ready as I'll ever be, come on, the sooner we sit down, the sooner
we can get up to leave."
Daisy chuckles back to her as they move
towards the large table that Frederick has set up, hoping that the announcement
that Frederick makes won't create more havoc than they already feel like is around
them.
Dominick's Townhouse
"You have to understand,
Felicia, I have been extremely worried about you," Dominick tells his ex-wife
as they sit next to one another on the sofa in the living room of the house he
shares with Abby. Dominick is, finally, having the chance to talk to Felicia about
her claims seeing Barbara alive; Dominick knows that it is impossible that she
has been seeing Barbara because se passed away years ago. All of these comments
about seeing Barbara have left Dominick feeling concerned that Felicia has, once
again, had a mental relapse.
"I know you have," Felicia nods
back to him. "The truth is, I've been worried myself. I know it is not possible
that I have seen Barbara, but I have, more than once. And that is the part that
I can't explain."
"We need to work together to solve this mystery,"
Dominick looks back into her eyes. "I don't want you to go through this alone."
On the staircase, Abby listens to Dominick tell Felicia that she won't go
through this alone. She sighs heavily, wishing that he would let Felicia's family
support her; in her mind, Dominick should be focused on her and their marriage.
"I am so grateful that you are always in my corner, Dominick,"
Felicia looks into his eyes. "You know that I adore you, right?"
Abby rolls her eyes to herself. "I know you do," Dominick nods
back to her. "And I am fond of you, Felicia. You're the mother of my children,
I will always be in your corner."
Hearing Dominick's proclamation
is too much for Abby, and she sneaks down the stairs and out of the house through
the back door.
"But we've got to figure out what is going on with
you," Dominick grabs Felicia's hand and squeezes it. "I won't rest until
I know what is going on with you, Felicia."
The Davenport House;
Trenyce & Chris' Home
"I am still on cloud nine Trey,"
Chris says with a huge smile on his face as he sets some taco shells down on the
table between him and Trenyce that he made for dinner. He can't help but think
back to earlier in the afternoon when Trenyce surprised him with a lunch date
and she revealed that she is expecting his child. For so long, Chris believed
that his time to be a father had passed but now, he is going to be a father and
he is over the moon with excitement. "We are going to have a baby, this is
really happening!"
Trenyce chuckles back to him as she puts some
of the taco-seasoned beef into her taco shell. "It is happening. I didn't
think I would have another child so quickly after BJ, but here we are."
"I mean, we are practically going to have twins in the house,"
Chris chuckles with her. "Are you sure you're up too this?"
"Of course I am," Trenyce nods back to him. "You and I, we spent
so many years looking for Cheresa; a part of me thought that I would miss the
chance to be a mother, really be a mother, you know? Now, we will have BJ and
this little guy or girl. This is the family I always dreamed of, Chris."
Chris reaches over and grabs her hand. "This has been my dream too,
Trey," he smiles at her. "I love you so much, I can't thank you enough
for giving this gift to me."
Trenyce gulps heavily as she knows
that Andrew could be the father of her child; she has been trying to push that
to the very back of her mind, because she and Andrew were only together once.
In her mind, Chris is the father of her baby, there is just no other explanation.
"We did this together," she finally replies to him. "Our love
created this life Chris, and we will be reminded of that forever."
The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino
"How are you enjoying
staying here? I haven't seen the suites yet," Cheresa admits to Andrew as
they sit in one of the booths together at the restaurant. Cheresa knows that Andrew
recently moved out of Trenyce's house and she is curious as to how he is getting
by in his new living arrangements.
"I mean, it's not bad,"
Andrew admits to her. "The truth is, it didn't matter where I went, I had
to leave Trenyce's house though."
Cheresa recalls how she saw Andrew
and Trenyce share a kiss at the house; she agreed to not say anything to Chris
because Trenyce told her that there was nothing between her and Andrew and that
the kiss was a mistake.
"You know you can be honest with me, right?"
Cheresa looks back at her friend. "We both know that I saw you kiss my mother,
Andrew. I agreed not to say anything to Chris because she told me that nothing
is going on between the two of you. Please tell me that is still the case."
Andrew gulps back to her as he thinks about the night of the gala where he
and Trenyce had sex with each other. In the aftermath, they both agreed that it
was a mistake because she is engaged to Chris but he hasn't been able to stop
thinking about it and he just overheard Trenyce tell Chris that she's pregnant.
He knows that it is a long shot, but he can't help but wonder if he could be the
father of the baby.
"There's nothing going on between Trenyce and
I," Andrew replies to her, as she breathes a sigh of relief. "But I
guess, on some level, I did care for her. So, me moving out was the best thing
possible."
Cheresa nods back to him. "I agree," she tells
him quickly. "Now you can move on from whatever this was; this is a time
for Trenyce and Chris to finally be happy, Andrew. And you can find your own happiness."
Andrew forces a smile on his face. "That's exactly what I'm going to
try to do."
The Cascade Apartments; Cassie & Max's Home
"We have to be quiet while we are talking," Cassie informs Max as she
moves back into the living room of the apartment that they live in together. "Carter
just went to sleep, and he has been fussy all day, so I'm hoping the sleep helps
with his mood."
"Not a problem, I don't want my little brother
to be grumpy," Max chuckles back to her. "I'm glad we have some time
alone though, we have to talk."
Cassie arches her eyebrow back to
him. "What is it?"
"It's about Jacob" Max reveals
to her as Cassie sits next to him on the sofa.
"Jacob?" Cassie
asks him back. "You know, we are getting closer every day," Cassie informs
him. "I really believe that Jacob, Carter and I will have the chance to be
a real family."
"Ugh," Max groans back to her. "See,
that's why I hate telling you this, Mom. You're still head over heels for that
son of a bitch."
"Hey, watch your mouth about Jacob. What's
gotten you so worked up about Jacob, anyways? Are you guys not getting along at
Roboto?"
"It's not that," Max shakes his head back to
her. "The other day when you came to the studio and interrupted the photoshoot,
did you happen to see the model, Isabelle?"
"I did," Cassie
nods back to him. "I heard you both call her beautiful. I just chalked it
up to you two being at work."
"It's beyond that," Max
reveals to her. "Isabelle and Jacob, they've been flirting. They were cleaning
up some spilled paint at the studio and then I saw them the next day at the coffeehouse.
I know you think you might have a future with Jacob, but his eye is already wandering."
Cassie sighs back to him. "I won't let that happen," she tells
him. "This is finally my chance to be happy with Jacob; this is a chance
for Carter to have his father in his life. We have to do something, Max. We have
to ensure Isabelle doesn't end up with Jacob."
Twin Peaks General
Hospital
Shane opens the door to his office at the hospital and moves
inside. He is caught off guard, however, when he sees Natasha pouring herself
a glass of water at the small bar he has. "Natasha?"
he asks in surprise at the sight of his ex-wife. "What are you doing here?
You don't have an appointment with me, do you?"
Natasha swallows
the water before she looks back at Shane. "No, but I had to see you. I had
to see if you ran the DNA test again."
Shane uneasily smiles back
to her as he recalls how Natasha presented him with one of baby Carter's pacifier's
that she took from Cassie's apartment and asked him to run another DNA test to
confirm that Jacob is the child's father. While they know that they've already
run one test, they both still suspect that Cassie might have had a hand in tampering
with the test results.
"Come on Shane," Natasha says to her
ex-husband. "Don't keep me waiting, tell me, did you run another DNA test
with the pacifier that I gave you?"
"I did," Shane nods
back to her as she breathes a sigh of relief. "We are running another test
that no one else knows about, so, Cassie will not be able to tamper with this
test. We will finally learn the truth about Carter and Jacob."
Natasha
rushes up to him and wraps her warms around him. "Thank you," she whispers
to him. "We have to do anything we can to keep Cassie away from Jacob and
I think this is the perfect start."
The Sugarbowl
"I must admit, when I heard that you ended things with Leah, I was rather
surprised," Robin tells Cory as they sit across from one another in the back
booth of the coffeehouse. Robin heard from Leah earlier that Cory left her after
she rejected his marriage proposal. Robin, who has always remained close to Cory,
decided to reach out to him to see how he is doing with the breakup. "You
two seemed pretty close these past few months."
Cory uneasily smiles
back to her before he takes a sip of his latte. "We were close," he
nods back to her. "I supported her in every possible way I could. But the
writing was on the wall when she couldn't commit to me."
"It
still couldn't have been easy for you to make the decision to walk away from her?"
"You know what's interesting," Cory looks back at his ex-wife.
"Is that, it has been easier than I thought, I guess that's telling, right?"
Robin chuckles back to him. "You and Leah getting together did create
a stir considering our history," Robin reminds him. "We also have a
long, sorted history together."
"That we do," Cory smirks.
"I don't know, I guess the love I felt for you was different than for Leah.
Part of me is wondering if I ever loved her at all. Anyways, I am doing okay with
this. I appreciate you coming to check in on me, considering Leah is your sister."
"I can support both of you," Robin tells him. "And, this is
a nice distraction from my own problems."
"I'm not the only
going through a breakup," Cory reminds her. "But I'm not pregnant. How
are you with Adam leaving?"
Robin shrugs back to him. "I mean,
I understand why he left. I'm having another man's baby, again. He can only take
so much. I guess I'm just trying to figure out what my future holds now because
for so long, I thought my future was with Adam."
"What about
Shane?" Cory asks her quickly. "Do you see a future with him?"
"Honestly, he asked me for that," Robin reveals to him. "He
thinks this is the chance for us to be a family with our children."
"Why do I get the feeling there's a but coming?"
"But,"
Robin chuckles back to him. "I don't love Shane. I never have. We've just…we've
just been there for each other when we have needed one another. And the result
is that we have two children together."
"Do you want my advice?"
Cory asks her as they lock eyes and she nods back to him. "If you don't love
him, he shouldn't be with him, Robin. You can't spend your life with someone you
don't love; it's not fair to you and it's certainly not fair to him."
Robin nervously nods back to him. "I've been thinking that way too.
It's just nice to hear someone else say it out loud to me."
"I'll
always tell you the truth, Robin. You know that."
"I do know
that," Robin smiles back to him. "That's why we are such good friends,
Cory."
The Park
Abby quickly walks through the park,
trying to get some fresh air in her lungs as she finds her heart racing over hearing
Dominick and Felicia's intimate conversation earlier in the evening. She wishes
that Dominick would focus on her and their marriage instead of throwing Felicia
in the middle of everything, but she realizes that she might have to get used
to have a third wheel in her marriage.
Without watching where she's doing,
she runs into another person who is walking on the pathway.
"Ohmygawd,"
she says as she tries to catch her breath. "I'm so sorry."
She looks over and sees Ethan stumbling back. "Ethan? Are you okay? I'm so
sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going."
"Yea, I'm fine,"
Ethan says moving closer to her. "Why are you walking so quickly? What's
the rush?"
Abby sighs back to him as she suddenly looks around to
make sure no one can see them together. She knows that Paige has seen her and
Ethan together and has confronted her about her relationship with the legal eagle
and told Dominick about it. Part of the reason she is attracted to Ethan is because
when they are together, he gives her his full attention, unlike Dominick.
"I just needed to clear my head, I guess," she admits to him. "There's
drama with Dominick and his ex-wife and that woman just gets under my skin."
Ethan chuckles back to her. "You're kinda cute when you're mad though,"
he tells her before she looks back at him with a glare. "I'm sorry, I was
just trying to lighten the mood. I hope you feel okay."
"I
will be okay," Abby nods back to him. "I'm glad I ran into you. You're
probably the one that understands me right now."
"Me?"
Ethan asks in surprise. "I'm just a good friend, that's all."
"Yea, a really good friend," she says as their eyes lock. She licks
her lips and finds herself leaning into him and kissing him on the lips. They
part ways before he leans in and kisses her again.
The Victors Mansion;
Frederick's Lair
"The lobster bisque was lovely," Daisy
says as she sets her spoon down on the table and a waiter comes to collect her
soup bowl. "I've tried to make my own but have never been this successful."
Frederick chuckles back to his family. "Well, I hired the finest chef
for this meal. I wanted it to be special."
"Before the main
course comes," Leah looks over at him. "Could we hear your announcement?
The suspense is killing me!"
"I must admit Dad, I am eager
to hear what you have to say as well," Meggan nods back to him.
"Very well, I guess I've kept you all in the dark long enough," Frederick
says as he stands up and moves over to the bar where he picks up an envelope.
"What's in the envelope, Dad?" Lukas asks him, wondering if they
are about to get some sort of legal document thrown at them. While he has tried
to give Frederick the benefit of the doubt, he can't help but recall how homophobic
Frederick was right before he "died".
"We have some DNA
test results back," Frederick announces as he looks over at Leah. "And
congratulations are in order; Leah, you are officially a Richardson. The test
confirms that you're my daughter."
Leah takes the test results from
Frederick's hands and reads the results for herself. Despite knowing that this
was coming, Leah feels like the wind has been knocked out of her sail. She feels
her eyes swell with water and she covers her mouth as she gasps.
"My
God," she says as a tear falls down her cheek. "It's true; I'm your
daughter? I'm a Richardson?"
"Yes, you are my darling,"
Frederick smiles at her. "And it's time that you are officially welcomed
to the family, so everyone, raise your glass and welcome Leah to the fold."
"This isn't cause for celebration," Lukas huffs back to his father.
"In fact, I'm wondering how many other bastard children you're going to spring
on Meggan and I!"
"Lukas, please," Frederick looks back
at him in horror at his tone. "Just try to calm down."
"No,
Lukas is right," Leah snaps at him as she stands up and glares a Frederick.
"This isn't good news; this is the worst thing that could have happened to
me! I hate you, Frederick! Do you hear me? I hate you! I will never think of you
as my father! Not now, not ever!"
Next on One Day at a Time
- Robbie comes up with a plan of attack
- Lukas confronts Jasper
- Robin
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