Tuesday, August 15, 2006, Episode #4873

Dante tells Bridget he'll always care about her.

In the Forrester CEO's office - just whose office is that, anyway? Brooke's? Eric's? -- Dante and Felicia are kissing and talking about their lovemaking last life. Felicia wants to be sure last night wasn't a dream. Dante assures her that it wasn't; he meant it when he said he wanted a life with her and Dino, and he's sorry for what he put her through before realizing that. She tells him it wasn't his fault. Bridget enters and says it was her fault. Dante apologizes to Bridget, as he didn't want her to find out about him and Felicia this way. Bridget is OK with it; she admits her life is a mess and she's hurt people by not knowing what she wanted, so she's glad to see Dante and Felicia happy. Dante says he'll always care about her. Bridget says she knows, but she also knows his life is with Felicia and their son now, as it should be; now he'll be loved the way he deserves to be. She kisses him on the cheek.

Felicia comes clean with Bridget.

After Dante leaves, Bridget apologizes to Felicia for not realizing how she felt about Dante sooner. She just wishes she didn't have to stop the wedding to make that happen and just hopes Felicia can forgive her. Felicia admits she's actually gotten back at Bridget already and admits what she did with the sunblock and the botox cream. Bridget recalls how scared she was when her face was frozen. "You deserved it," Felicia retorts. Bridget guesses she did deserve that, and probably more. Felicia says she felt bad doing it, but she had to do something. "At least you didn't hire a hit man," Bridget quips; Felicia jokes that it crossed her mind. Bridget says again that she's so sorry, but she's pleased to get past that and get her life back again.

Bridget confides in Felicia about how she feels about Nick.

Speaking of that, Felicia says she heard about Bridget graduating a got her a gift: a stethoscope. She says that now that Bridget is qualified to fix other people's hearts, maybe she should fix her own. She guesses that everything Bridget did with Dante was really about Nick. Bridget admits that she loved Nick from the time they first kissed at Big Bear. Then why did she let him go? Felicia asks, answering her own question that it must be because Nick "still had Brooke in him." Bridget confides that she never admitted this to anyone, including herself, but she thought that once Nick experienced the drama of being involved with her mom, he'd leave Brooke and come back to her. Seeing as how that hasn't happened yet, she doesn't think it will now. Felicia says she can't know that. Bridget then wonders if it was a mistake to urge Nick to stop her mother's wedding to Ridge. She admits her mom is a hard person to figure out, but she thinks Brooke should be with Ridge if that's who he wants, before anyone or anything else gets in the way of that happening.

Nick fills Brooke in on what happened when she was gone.

Over at Brooke's, she is in bed with Nick, making love after her return home. She tells him how she missed him and asks him if Donna helped out; when Nick doesn't answer, Brooke takes that to mean her sister didn't help. Nick says it's not that. It's just that Ridge was there last night. To see R.J., Brooke says. And Donna, Nick adds; Ridge was all over Donna, who didn't look like she was resisting. Getting out of bed, Brooke is bothered by what Nick just told her, since she told her sister to keep things with Ridge strictly professional. Nick suggests that maybe Ridge is the one she should be upset with. Brooke says that she's trying to protect Donna, who seems hell bent on getting her heart broken anyway. Nick suggests that Ridge is trying to get a reaction out of Brooke by paying attention to Donna - and from the way Brooke's acting, it's working. He doesn't like the way Ridge is using this situation with Donna and the modeling for the Bedroom line to play with Brooke's head, which is why he thinks Brooke might want to step back from Forrester for a while. Brooke reminds him that she already agreed to run Forrester from Marone. Which brings Nick to an idea he had: since she's working out of Marone, why doesn't she get involved with his company. There's a board meeting today and that would be the perfect time to break her in. Brooke isn't sure what she knows about the shipping business. If she doesn't like it, Nick jokes, he'll kick the board out and make love to her on the boardroom table. Brooke agrees to do it for Nick; she just has to stop at Forrester to pick up some sales reports and then she'll meet him at Marone.

Ridge tells Donna how he feels.

Donna arrives at Forrester and apologizes to Ridge for being late. He gives her an outfit, so she takes it to get changed. Ridge asks if something's wrong. She tells him that she couldn't sleep last night, because she kept thinking about what Nick said, that Ridge is using her to make Brooke jealous. If that's true, she wants to know. Ridge admits that he's not sure, because it's complicated. He has to admit that he still loves Brooke and will until the day he dies. He's not making excuses for that, but that's how it is, and it means he's dangerous from being on the rebound right now. At the same time, he finds it hard to hold back what he feels when he's working with her, since she's beautiful and sexy, and she's his inspiration. That turns him on, but he admits he doesn't know how he'll feel next week, or even tomorrow. Donna pauses and admits she's scared, but she knows that even good girls like to play with fire sometimes. That's what she'd be doing, he says. If he's afraid that she'll get burned, she says, she'll take that risk, especially if it means... She pauses and tells him that she's lived in Brooke's shadow all her life, but now she's out of that shadow, and it feels amazing. So she's willing to take this ride for what it's worth, even with the chance she can be hurt. They stare at each other, but the intercom buzzes, so Donna suggests he get that while she changes.

Brooke confronts Ridge about him and Donna.

Donna soon returns and lets Ridge check her outfit out. Brooke walks in and sees Ridge running his hands on Donna's body. She shuts the door and asks what's going on. Ridge and Donna welcome her back and ask how camp was. It was fine, Brooke replies. Ridge asks Brooke what she thinks of his latest design; not looking pleased, Brooke says they need to talk about sales figures, so she asks Donna to excuse them. Once Donna leaves, Brooke asks Ridge what he was doing; she reminds him that she expected him to stay professional with Donna. Ridge says they were just working, but Brooke says it looked like more. Ridge suggests that they talk about this after today's meeting, but Brooke says she won't be there, since she'll be at a board meeting at Marone. Ridge is upset that Nick would pull her into a business she knows nothing about just to keep her away from him. They were talking about him and Donna, Brooke reminds Ridge, especially the two of them disregarding her feelings. She asks if he knows how much it hurt her to see him with his hands all over Donna. No more than she hurt him with Nick, Ridge retorts. Brooke asks if this is payback, but Ridge says he's just moving on. "With my sister," Brooke states. Ridge admits he's not really sure how he feels, any more than she is. She reminds him that she's married. Yet it eats her up inside to see him with another woman, Ridge states, especially since the woman is her sister. She asks if he wants to be with Donna.