Thomas and Paris’s lavish wedding promised a new beginning, an elegant escape from the chaos of their pasts. For once, it seemed Thomas had found someone who not only accepted him but celebrated his flaws. Paris was radiant, determined to secure her place within the Forrester dynasty—not as a relic of past romances, but as a power player beside her new husband.

But beneath the glittering surface of celebration, a storm was brewing. Hope Logan, the woman Thomas once adored with unmatched obsession, had watched the engagement unfold with barely concealed anguish. She forced herself to smile, to act unbothered, to pretend she had moved on. In truth, Hope was unraveling. Liam and her marriage had already splintered. And the man she tried so hard to forget was about to belong to someone else.

On the night of Thomas’s wedding, when the guests had gone and the lights had dimmed, Hope found herself at his hotel room door. The moment he opened it, her trembling confession—”I made a mistake”—ignited a passionate and reckless reunion. Thomas hesitated, torn between loyalty and longing, but the truth was undeniable: he had never stopped loving Hope. Their union was explosive, raw, and riddled with guilt.

The next morning, Paris awoke to subtle signs of betrayal—an unfamiliar scent, a cold bed, and an unsettling energy in the room. Soon, her suspicions hardened into certainty, pieced together by casual remarks and hard evidence. But rather than confront her husband or Hope, Paris masked her devastation behind charm and grace. She played the role of the perfect wife while plotting a calculated revenge.

The ultimate shock came when Hope discovered she was pregnant. Whispers began to spread—first about her glow, then about the noticeable strain in her marriage to Liam. When Steffy cornered her, Hope crumbled, admitting the truth: she didn’t know who the father was. Liam’s silent exit from their life was devastating, but it was Paris’s icy demeanor that truly unsettled Hope.

Behind her façade, Paris was orchestrating something sinister. She offered Hope “relaxing” teas and supplements—harmless at first glance, but intentionally designed to induce harm under stress. Paris wasn’t trying to kill the baby outright; she was engineering circumstances for nature to take its cruel course.

As public speculation grew, Thomas tried to preserve his fragile new marriage, but guilt gnawed at him. When Hope agreed to a paternity test, both Liam and Thomas braced for impact. But Paris wasn’t done yet—she bribed a lab technician to alter the results, ensuring they were inconclusive and igniting a firestorm of mistrust.

Accusations flew. Liam blamed Thomas. Thomas blamed Liam. The Forrester and Logan families fractured under the strain. Hope’s world collapsed further when she suffered a fall at work—a deliberate trap set by Paris. Though the baby survived, a new timeline emerged, casting fresh doubt on the baby’s paternity.

Then came Hope’s heartbreaking confession: she had also been with Liam the night before Thomas’s wedding. Everything Thomas believed—about her love, her motives—crumbled. Disillusioned, he walked away, unable to trust either woman in his life.

In the end, Paris delivered her final blow. Selling the full story to the press, she painted herself as the wronged wife and let the world judge Hope and Thomas as the villains. Hope, left with her reputation in ruins and her future uncertain, could only cling to the secret still locked in a hospital safe—the envelope containing the truth about her child’s father.