Chapter 16:
Hope wakes up with a pounding headache. She rolls over in bed to see a sleeping satisfied Liam. Hope gets up and puts her rob on feeling ashamed and needing to cover her body. She thinks to herself how disgusting she has been. She goes into the bathroom and looks at herself in the mirror. God you look just like your mother right now She thinks to herself. Liam must never know what happened with his father and Hollis. He will never know she thinks to herself. She gives herself a little pep talk and goes to make some coffee.
Meanwhile up at the main house, Brooke and Ridge are having breakfast. They are trying to plan another way for Ridge to be a majority share holder. "You deserve this Ridge," Brooke says with a tear in her eye.
"I know, I've worked my entire life and Felicia comes in and thinks she can just take this out from under me." Ridge states with a sense of smugness. As they both take a sip of their coffee they hear the door bell ring. They both exchange puzzled looks. They make their way to the front door and open it to see a refreshed Felicia standing there with a to go tray of coffees.
She looks at them and notes that Ridge is in sweat pants and a baggy t-shirt and Brooke is wearing see through lingerie, "Well I guess you two are not that eager to get into work."
"Felicia," Ridge says with a surprise, "Normally people just come in, I'm a little surprised you rang the door bell."
"Well, I didn't want to walk into anything inappropriate." She walks in as Ridge gestures in towards the living room.
"To what do we owe the pleasure?" Brooke says sarcastically.
"I've just been informed that S.T. Marone has had an attempted hacker."
A smile curls up on Brooke's lips, "What does this have to do with us?" She smugly says as she crosses her arms.
"I'm assuming with the history you two have with my niece and nephew," Felicia locks eyes with Ridge, "Your son and daughter," she pauses and keeps his gaze for a while. "You may either have something to do with this or know who has something to do with this. And before you grasp at your pearls that I would accuse you of this, I want to make sure that no one at Forrester has anything to do with any illegal activity, so this is protocol. Especially since RJ has been taking some pretty intense IT classes in Europe."
"How would you know any of this," Brooke says getting defensive.
"I have my own specialty tech guy." Felicia smiles mischievously.
"Well I personally have not talked to him in months." Brooke says as if she is in an interrogation.
"I wouldn't exactly call that something to brag about." Felicia says rolling her eyes.
"Who is this tech savvy person you have at your disposal." Ridge finally chiming in.
Felicia smirks, "That's none of your business big brother."
