After the dark of sadness comes the glory of happiness!

A pleasant and an unpleasant visitor!

A few days later, Taylor and Ridge were back in San Francisco. Taylor was brunching with Susan, Stacy and Rosa on their terrace. She was just telling the others about her weekend in LA. She finished her report with how she had stood up to Brooke at the party and had told her off. Susan looked at her appreciatively.

"That certainly impressed her! I guess she'll have realized then that she can't do anything about Ridge being with you now." Taylor, however, shook her head skeptically.

"You all don't know Brooke, she never gives up when she wants something or someone! I'm sure she's sitting at home right now plotting up the next plan to win Ridge back. Stacy spoke in encouragement to her.

"Even if she does, she has no chance, I cannot imagine anything that could break up the two of you!"

"Well in the past she always managed to bring some major turbulence into our marriage. But she's not going to get away with it this time!" Taylor got a very defiant expression. Rosa put her hand on her shoulder. 

"Don't you think you react a little bit over the top? I mean, at some point every woman realizes when she has no chance with a man."

"Not Brooke! She's convinced, Ridge is her destiny and she alone has the right to be with him and she won't rest until he's hers again! In her opinion, no other woman deserves him and certainly not me! And I can tell you one thing: when Brooke Logan wants something, nothing and no one can stop her." Rosa gave her a suspicious look. 

"Come on, she can't be that bad! I'm sure there are some limits even for Brooke."

"Oh no! Believe me, I've known this woman for over 20 years now and during that time alone she's proven more than once, nothing is sacred to her. Back then when we met, she was in love with Ridge but couldn't have him, so she picked his father and had a child with him. Then Ridge was free and she wanted him back, even though she was married to his father. At the end Ridge married me, but that didn't impress her much. When she was pregnant with her second child, nobody knew if Ridge or his Dad was the father of her baby. Then years later, when Ridge and I already had our family with Thomas and the girls, not even that stopped her from making a pass at Ridge again. Then she started an affair with his brother, even though he was married, and when that relationship failed and she couldn't have Ridge back either, she had nothing better to do than hook up with her own daughter's husband and to have a baby with him. The whole scenario repeated itself a few years later and not so long ago her youngest daughter celebrated her graduation and there was a masked ball. At this party she managed to get involved with her daughter's boyfriend. Afterwards she claimed that she was so intoxicated and blown away, she didn't realize who she was doing it with." Taylor had really talked herself into this subject. Everyone stared at her with open mouths, horrified and stunned.

"Oh my God!" Susan finally found her voice again..

"Yeah! And that's just the tip of the Brooke Logan iceberg!" Stacy was shocked.

"Seriously? The husband of her own daughter? That's really gross. I mean, it may happen that you forget yourself once and that you get caught up in your emotions. We are all humans. But your daughter's husband, that's a No-go!" Everyone nodded in agreement. Taylor sighed.

"But the worst part for me over the last few years was, no matter what she's done and how much she humiliated and hurt him, Ridge has always forgiven and defended her. She was always able to convince him, some unfortunate circumstances led to this situation. He was completely devoted to her, he even put Thomas and Steffy aside and neglected them for her sake. I don't want that to happen again. Thomas and Steffy are so happy to have their father, their family back!" Rosa put an arm around her shoulder sympathetically.