Bold and the Beautiful: Hope’s Shocking New Lies Deepen Brutal Betrayal – Everyone Hurt!

Bold and the Beautiful delivers Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) reeling when Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) tells Hope flat out that her leave of absence is over and she’s expected back at Forrester Creations because they are going to relaunch Hope for the Future right away.

However, Hope has got obligations to Katie Logan (Heather Tom) and Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) over at Logan. So, basically, Hope has been backed into a corner, and while it looks like she’s about to confess to Steffy, I don’t think so. I think Hope decides to tell more lies instead.

Bold and the Beautiful: Steffy’s Suspicious Offer

So, this week, Steffy told Hope, “Enough with the games.” And she said, “I know what you’re up to.” So, Hope was panicking that Steffy might know that she went over to Logan, but Hope played dumb. And in the end, Steffy basically accused her of being up to something. She said that Hope took a leave of absence to force her hand. And Steffy told Hope that, “Okay, you got what you wanted.” So Steffy told Hope flat out, “It’s time to end your leave of absence and come back to work.” And Steffy said they were going to make a big announcement in the press about Hope for the Future coming back at Forrester Creations.

The thing is, I kind of suspect that Steffy was not being sincere. I think she might actually be testing Hope. The vibe that I got watching those scenes is that Steffy knows that something is up. She knows Hope is up to something and this leave of absence is sketchy. Ever since the coup with Carte Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor), we have seen Steffy eyeing Hope and she’s been suspicious of her, which is understandable. And Steffy knows that Brooke Logan’s (Katherine Kelly Lang) co-CEO move was all a plot by Hope.

Bold and Beautiful: Steffy’s Odd Behavior

So, when I was watching those scenes, I was thinking, hm, okay, Steffy is channeling her grandma, Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery), who was always skeptical of the Logan women. And when Steffy told Hope, “Bring it in.” And then hugged her, that’s when I was like, “No way. What is this even happening right now?” Steffy and Hope are not hug it out stepsisters. Never have been.

So, my BS meter was off the charts. And I was thinking, okay, this is either insane writing, which is possible, or Steffy is suspicious. She, I think, senses that something is up with Hope. Things don’t add up. But I don’t think that she knows exactly what it is.

Hope’s Confession Cliffhanger and Lies on B&B

After Steffy hugged Hope and Steffy said, “I support you,” Hope seemed ready to confess. And she told Steffy, “There’s something you need to know.” That was the cliffhanger moment. But honestly, it’s way too soon and not very soapy for Hope to come clean to Steffy at this moment. Yes, I think that Hope should come clean. She should have quit and made a clean break away from Forrester Creations when this all started, but instead she lied to Steffy, to Brooke, and to Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) about her leave of absence. And that was super dodgy.

And while Hope confessing would be the right thing to do, I just don’t see it happening. I cannot see her telling Steffy, “Oh, by the way, I’ve got a new line about to debut over at Logan, and I signed a deal with Katie and Bill.” And during this whole discussion, the look on Steffy’s face was almost like, “Ha, I’ve got you.” But I think Hope is going to chicken out and instead of confessing, she’s going to tell more lies. Just like when she went out and did a leave of absence, instead of telling Steffy and Ridge, “Okay, I quit,” Hope may say that, you know, she’s still working through things and she’s not quite ready to come back.

She may tell Steffy she needs more time to work through her feelings, but nothing Hope says is going to convince Steffy to take no for an answer. And in the end, I suspect Hope may just tell a bunch more lies, trying to buy a little more time while she sorts through things. Basically anything to put Steffy off so that Hope can just get out of the CEO office and leave.

Bold and the Beautiful: Hope’s Strategy and Logan Launch Plans

There’s an official Bold and the Beautiful spoiler that says Steffy’s offer changes everything and another that says Brooke celebrates a bright future with Hope. So I think that you know Steffy may tell Brooke that okay Hope’s going to come back to Forrester Creations. Steffy says, “I told her to end her leave of absence.”

But at the same time, I think Hope is going to tell Steffy that she just needs to sort through some things. And I think she’s vague and then is going to skitter out of there. And then Hope is going to run over to Logan to talk to Katie and everybody else. Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) and Deke Sharpe (Harrison Cone) and Katie and Bill are all waiting. They’re all worrying. And Hope’s going to tell them that Steffy told her to end her leave of absence and come back.

It’s about to Hit the Fan on Bold and the Beautiful

And I think Katie may encourage Hope to just buy time to get to the launch because once Katie reveals Hope is her new designer, it’s going to all be out in the open anyway. And that way, Hope won’t have to come clean to anybody. She won’t have to work up the nerve to tell Steffy and Brooke what she’s done and how she’s betrayed them. At the same time, I think it’s very cowardly if Hope does it this way and doesn’t come clean and keeps lying. But I think Bill will call it strategy.

But if Hope lies like I suspect she might, then it’s all going to be so much worse than if she just came clean from the start. She should have told Steffy, Ridge and Brooke the truth. Or, you know, Hope could have told Steffy when she decided to reactivate her line this week.

So, if it does go this way and Hope does more fibbing to Steffy and Brooke just lying right in their face, it’s going to obviously make everything worse. And we already know Hope isn’t going to walk away from Logan because we’ve seen a leaked video of Brooke over at Logan going insane on Katie.

And while that’s happening, Hope is hiding behind the screen and she’s basically cowering while Brooke rages at Katie. So, that means Hope doesn’t come clean to Steffy or Brooke would already know the truth about who her new designer was and Hope would have warned Katie.

Bold and the Beautiful: Steffy’s Suspicions and the Launch Showdown

But I think Steffy’s going to do the math because Brooke told her Katie can only hire Spencers, not Forresters. And of course, Steffy was expecting Hope to be thrilled about her line coming back. And Hope not jumping at the chance to get back to work is going to make Steffy more suspicious. She told Hope that Forrester Creations wants to announce Hope for the Future is back.

And say Steffy really believes this and isn’t on to her. If they put that out in the press and then Hope winds up launching over at Logan, that will absolutely humiliate the Foresters, it’ll be as bad or worse than when news broke that Eric Forrester (John McCook) was debuting a line over at Logan. Only, of course, he backed out at the last minute and didn’t walk the runway with Katie as Eric promised he would.

Too Little Too Late for Hope on B&B

But I think Hope’s not going to back out just because Steffy green lit her line. Of course, greenlighting it doesn’t erase all the times that Hope felt disrespected, that Steffy put her line on hold and basically laughed in her face and flexed her power. So, I think if Hope tells more lies, it’s going to make it so much more of a betrayal when she and Deke make their debut and they walk down the runway with the Hope for the Future diamond on her and they’re thanking Katie and Bill.

So, it could be Steffy who gets Brooke amped up and is why she goes over to confront Katie and demand to know who’s her designer. Steffy may suspect that Hope defected to Logan, but I don’t think Brooke is going to believe that her precious daughter would ever do that. And that may be why Brooke goes over to confront Katie.

So, I think if Steffy does wind up suspecting that Hope defected, I think Brooke’s going to hope that she’s wrong. But Katie is not going to come clean and I don’t think Hope will either. That means we’re going to probably get a huge throwdown showdown at the Hope for the Future launch during sweeps and it may actually coincide with Eric’s launch and it could be because Bill and Katie are plotting it to steal Forrester’s thunder, but I anticipate more lies, not a confession.

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