The Bold and the Beautiful Recap May 15: Ridge Chooses Steffy Over Brooke, Zende Explodes, Electra Makes Peace With Dylan

TL;DR: In today’s Bold and the Beautiful recap, Ridge tells Brooke she can’t have Steffy’s co-CEO role. Zende lashes out at Carter about the unfairness at Forrester, and  Electra lets Dylan be her friend as long as she follows her list of conditions.

The Bold and the Beautiful Recap May 15

At Spencer, Hope continued to bounce between fretting and hoping about what was happening at Forrester. She told Liam that if only her mom were co-CEO, she wouldn’t be sidelined by Steffy anymore. 

Liam reiterated all the reasons Hope should come to Logan, and added that although things could get fixed if changes were made, at Logan she wouldn’t have to ask or wait.

Zende Is Frustrated

In the CEOs’ office, Zende told Carter about his mounting frustration working at Forrester and that all of his efforts seemed fruitless. 

Carter told Zende that working on the couture line instead of HFTF wasn’t a demotion. Zende fumed that he was asked to review RJ’s work when he’d designed an entire collection for HFTF that was never going to see the light of day.

“I’m here to create, but now the golden child is back in town, and Steffy hates Hope. So all this love and passion is gone and doesn’t matter,” Zende added. “And it has nothing to do with business — it’s all personal. I am getting screwed here, Carter. And so is Hope!”

Zende said that RJ was family and deserved a place there, but he wouldn’t play second fiddle to him. “I’ve worked too hard here, and Hope has too,” he said.

Electra and Dylan Find Peace

In the design office, Electra told Dylan that she still wasn’t comfortable seeing her at Forrester but understood that she needed a job. Electra said she wouldn’t get in her way but Dylan needed to follow her rules. 

With zero irony, Electra told Dylan she had to focus on work, not her love life; she couldn’t cross the line with anyone at work; and, of course, she couldn’t be with Will.

Dylan had no problem with Electra’s conditions, and was super happy to be able to be in her orbit again. Electra told her that she’d had a rough time trusting people. She didn’t want to talk about Ivy but told her how her last best friend, Remy, had hurt her. 

Dylan and Electra hugged, but over her shoulder, Dylan spotted Remy lingering in the doorway, watching them.

Ridge Makes a Decision

When Ridge came home, Brooke wanted to know if he’d talked to Steffy, but when he paused, she reiterated her reasons for wanting to be co-CEO, including for Hope’s sake. 

Brooke noted that Hope had also grown up in the halls of Forrester and didn’t think it was fair that Steffy was in charge and Hope wasn’t. When she saw that argument wasn’t landing, she said that they could talk about it more when she was co-CEO.

Ridge told Brooke that he couldn’t demote Steffy when she’d done a great job. He said that it wasn’t fair, and he couldn’t give Brooke what he wanted. “I can’t do that to my daughter,” he told her as Brooke’s jaw dropped.

Brooke told Ridge she didn’t want to be just a face of Forrester that people could swipe off their screens. She said that Katie did a lot of things wrong, but one thing she did right was build something where she got credit for what she did.

“I deserve some sort of title,” Brooke said. Ridge agreed, but said he wouldn’t take Steffy’s away from her. He said he loved Brooke, and he would give her anything she wanted, except that.

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