ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Link Only LANI GETS THE FULL STORY FROM BRADY AND CONFRONTS ELI, KRISTEN HAS A NEW SECRET AND HER NAME IS AVA VITALI! 1200 words Beware of copycats. These are my words. There is only one DaysCafe :) THIS IS THE WAY IT WAS At the pub, Eli insists Lani will never know his inconvenient truth. Abe has concerns ... Lani wants full disclosure. Brady denies there is a secret surrounding Eli. Lani plays the recording she made of Eli and Abe mentioning him as the keeper of the secret ... Marlena the emotional healer pays Kristen a visit at the slammer. Brady told her all about Rachel ... Tripp is at Allie’s door, imploring her not to take action in London. T’would be long and hard for them both. She still believes he is a liar ... Ava steps away seconds before Steve opens his door. Kayla suddenly comes home. He wonders who knocked. Not Kayla. Ava is back outside the door but loses her nerve again since Sweetness is with Steve ... Tripp begs Allie to hear him out and regrets their earlier scream fest. He promises to be the perfect gentleman, so she lets him inside. Tripp talks turkey. She was cute and he was truly trying to help when he took her home in London. She still believes he was her attacker. He dramatically denies it ... Kristen is embittered and refuses to let Brady bring Rachel back to the facility ... Brady gets the back story on Lani setting up Eli and Abe for a secret recording. He suggests she speak to Eli. She complains he is not cooperating and urges him to tell her the truth. Brady does not want the mom-to-be to be stressed. She fears the worst for her family. He sighs the secret concerns Kristen ... Kristen hated seeing Rachel weep when they made her leave. Marlena is sympathetic. Kristen blames herself. Marlena gets her to focus on the future, how the visits will get better in time and before long she will be home. She and Rachel will have their bond. Kristen is realizing she is right. She admits she regrets the past. Marlena assures her their bad blood is water under the bridge ... Kayla is incensed to hear the D.A. will not try Tripp in Salem and argues with Steve, who still believes his son is innocent ... Allie heard that Tripp held a scalpel to Kayla once upon a time. He points out he was in a bad place. He believed Kayla had offed his mother ... Kristen looks like she is seeing a ghost when Ava Vitali appears before her looking stylishly alive ... Lani is all ears. Brady updates her on the duplicitous D.A. blackmailing Eli into getting Kristen to confess. That was the only way she would leave Lani alone. It gets worse. Brady reveals Eli set Kristen up ... Tripp gets emotional about losing the support of mentor Kayla, who was almost like a mom. He insists he is innocent and implores Allie to drop the case for all their sakes. Allie looks torn ... Kayla feels the 4 DNA tests proved Tripp’s inconvenient truth and suggests Steve stop fooling himself. He accuses her of assuming the worst since the boy’s biological mother was Ava Vitali ... Ava slinks in with her black dress and a triumphant smile. Kristen is elated to see her alive. Ava used an alias to get in. Kristen had no idea she had survived the warehouse fire. Ava fumes Xander was useless and she saved herself. This is the second time she has cheated death in these last years. The first time was when Kristen arranged for Dr. Rolf to take her to Nashville. She too had her own door with her initials and is eternally grateful to Kristen, who coos tis what friends do. They remember meeting in Italy in 2015, when wheelchair Kristen met Ava the girl in the animal print dress at the convent. She was visiting Aunt Sister Margarita and admitted she was a sinner. Kristen could relate and referred to Marlena trying to push her to her death from that fateful tower. Back to the present, Mafia princess Ava giggles Marlena being Kristen’s arch enemy made her relatable. They were on the same side ... Brady explains how Eli encouraged Kristen to admit to sticking a knife in slick Vic as revenge. Eli then warned Kristen he caught her revealing confession on tape and complained about Trask’s blackmail. Kristen agreed to confess to save Lani. Eli destroyed the damning recording afterwards. Lani is appalled ... Kristen smiles Marlena is neither friend nor foe now. Ava tells how she took her advice to go back to Salem and tell Steve about their child. Alas Kayla came between them again when she rescued Steve the prisoner ... Kayla angrily reminds Steve that Ava raped him just as his son did to Allie. Tripp walks in and is horrified to hear it ... At Julie’s Place the shower planner perceives something is bothering Eli and tries to give him a pep talk. She praises him for being the perfect husband ... Lani apologizes to Brady for everything. He knew Eli was just trying to save his family. Lani is overwhelmed by Kristen’s sacrifice ... Ava admits she is not in Salem for Steve, though the strong connection is still there. She almost visited him today and complains about Kayla ... Tripp believes Kayla is bashing his mother, but Steve is sorry to say she spoke the truth ... Marlena now pays Allie a visit. The girl is torn after Tripp’s impassioned plea. He seemed so sincere, but the DNA says otherwise. Marlena is on her side no matter what. Allie thanks her youthful grandmother. They exchange I love yous and a sweet hug ... Eli is happy to find Lani waiting for him at home. He gushes about Julie getting the baby shower ready. Lani stares him down and announces there shall be no shower ... Marlena updates Brady on her meeting with Kristen, who came around. Brady is grateful and asks her to stay with Rachel while he goes to see the woman he loves ... Ava assures good friend Kristen she will be back. Kristen smiles she will keep the secret of her return. Ava thanks her and waltzes out ... Steve admits to Tripp that Ava did make him sleep with her. Otherwise she would have offed Kayla! Tripp concludes Kayla considers him the same kind of person ... At Julie’s Place, the colorful diva gushes to Abe about the babies bringing both their families a bright future ... Lani coldly tells Eli she knows what he did to Kristen ... Kristen flashes back to finding Ava’s door at the warehouse. She comes back to reality when Brady appears. After they embrace, he wonders who her woman visitor that the guard mentioned was ... Tripp is hanging his head, alone at a park bench. Ava gets emotional when she spies her son and reaches out to touch him. Alas he takes off, not even knowing she was there ... Steve is upset about Kayla upsetting Tripp. She argues he is a grown man who has to answer for what he did to Allie ... Allie calls D.A. Trask. About taking her case to London ... STAY TUNED! Luv Cathy |
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