B&B: HOPE'S DIFFICULT WEEK

Hope is trying to be understanding while at the same time walking a very fine line

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Hope discovers that Deacon has a "new" woman in his life, but is unaware it's Sheila. "She seems vaguely familiar ... almost as if it's someone she's seen before but maybe they had a lot of work done," muses Annika Noelle (Hope). "I think, quite frankly, Hope is more curious about who this woman is to her dad. Is it a one-night stand? A bar regular? Knowing Hope, she won't let her dad's ambiguous answers go and she'll try to get to the bottom of it." Hope, however, has more pressing matters on her mind because of Douglas and Thomas.