Episode 1046
 
Wait to Love You
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: April 21, 2024

Episode Theme song: "Billions" Alicia Keys

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Nicholas suggested to Andy that he move in with him to help deal with his nightmares about killing Clayton
- Cheresa and Chantel grew closer
- Gordy walked in on a close moment between Penny and Cory
- Daisy revealed to Antonio that she had enough money to pay back her, and Andrew's loan
- Lukas planned a romantic evening for him and Donovan, but he was on a date with Sergio
- Eva took Dominick home
- Frederick told Bryce he would help him with his plan, or he would expose the baby switch
- Robbie and Kim were served with a 7-million-dollar lawsuit from Madeline, who claimed she didn't get a divorce settlement

The River Rock Casino

Antonio feels his blood start to boil as he stands in his office in front of Daisy, who just informed him that she has enough money to pay back her loan to him in full and including interest. He has always hoped that she would return to her position as a call girl in the casino because he made a lot of money off of her, and he had hoped that Andrew would start to gamble again as the more young, attractive people that are seen gambling, the more attention the casino would gain. For him to be so close to losing his control over Daisy, and Andrew, it is something that makes him furious.

"You will not just walk away from me," he finally tells Daisy, breaking the tense silence in the office. "This is far from over."

"That's where you're wrong," Daisy glares back at him, thrilled that she can finally tell Antonio that they are through with him. "Andrew and I, we have enough money to pay you back, in full. You have nothing else, Antonio. Andrew and I, we will be leaving this hell today, and there's not a damn thing that you can do about it."

Antonio starts to chuckle back to her. "Oh, Daisy, sweet, sweet, Daisy," he looks at her with a devilish grin in his eyes. "That's where you're wrong. Neither you or Andrew are leaving the casino, in fact, you will both start doing my bidding again because if you don't, I will tell everyone exactly what you've been up too."

Daisy arches her eyebrow back to him in confusion. "What are you talking about? What have I been up too?"

"You're a hooker," Antonio reminds her as Daisy feels the blood drain from her face. "You've been sleeping with men, many men, for money. How do you think your family would feel about that? That's what I thought…like I said, you're not going anywhere, Daisy, no matter if you make your payment or not."

One Day House

Andy moves up to the Nicholas' office door at the One Day House and prepares to knock. He has been thinking about his boyfriend's offer to move into the Young Mansion with him, hoping that it will help him deal with some of the nightmares he has been having about killing Clayton. After talking to Trenyce about it, Andy has made some decisions. Andy finds himself knocking on the door and opening it, where he sees Nicholas behind his desk.

"Hey," Andy says as he moves into the office, causing Nicholas to look up from his spreadsheets that he is working on. "I hope I'm not interrupting?"

"I can always make time for you," Nicholas stands up and moves closer to his boyfriend. "How are you? I hope you didn't have another nightmare last night?"

"I slept pretty well," Andy replies to him. "But the nightmares, and this Clayton situation, it is why I am here today."

Nicholas arches his eyebrow back to him. "What's going on?"

"Your offer," Andy looks back into his eyes. "To move in with you. I'd…I'd like to accept, Nicholas. I want to live with you, because I agree, together, we can get through this."

Nicholas smiles back to him as he pulls Andy into a hug. "I'm so happy to hear that babe," Nicholas tells him as they exit their embrace. Nicholas looks into Andy's eyes and gives him a kiss on the lips. "We are in this together, so this is the perfect solution."

Twin Peaks General Hospital

Cheresa moves towards the computer station in the file room carrying a stack of files that she and Chantel are about to digitalize. Chantel notice Cheresa carrying the files and stands up quickly to help her friend and co-worker.

"Here, let me help you with those," Chantel chuckles as she grabs some of the files from Cheresa's arms. "I'd hate for you to drop them."

Cheresa giggles back to her. "Could you imagine the mess that would create?"

"I don't want to think about that," Chantel admits to her. "But thanks for grabbing these files. We are making good headway on the digitalization of the files."

"Yea, I agree," Cheresa smiles back to her. "You, Bryce and I, we make a good team."

"Between you and me, I think we are doing the heavy lifting," Chantel winks back to her. "So I'd say, you and I are the good team."

Cheresa chuckles back to her. "I won't argue with that."

At the door, Bryce stands and watches the unfolding between the two young women. He smirks thinking that they are, subtly, flirting with each other. He thinks that it is sweet and continues to watch them engage with each other.

Penny's Farmhouse; Holdenville, Oklahoma

"How is Cory feeling?" Gordy asks Penny, who moves back into the kitchen of her farmhouse after she went to check on Cory. Gordy knows that when he returned from the auction, he walked in on Penny and Cory looking at one another on the floor. Penny explained that Cory slipped off the step ladder and fell, and now he is resting. Gordy, however, couldn't help but sense some chemistry between the man staying with his fiancé and it hasn't been sitting well with him.

"He will be fine," Penny waves her hand in the air. "I think he has a small bruise on his back but nothing that won't heal."

"That's a relief," Gordy responds to her. "I guess he just needs some rest, and he should be good. In fact, maybe this was a good thing?"

"Cory falling is a good thing? How do you figure that?" Penny asks with a chuckle.

"Well," Gordy looks back at her as he crosses arms over his chest. "Who knows what will trigger his memory coming back? Maybe the hit on the head will jar something?"

Penny looks back at him in surprise. "I…I guess I haven't had a chance to fill you in," she starts to explain to him. "Cory, he got his memory back; while you were away at the auction, his memory came back."

"Really?" Gordy asks her, startled by her admission. "Then, Pen, I have to ask you something."

"Sure, what?"

"If Cory knows who he is and where he's from and where his family is, why is he still here?" he asks her as she looks back at him. "Why wouldn't he jump at the chance to leave here? What is possibly keeping him here? Or do I even have to ask?"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Penny asks him quickly.

"What's really going on between you and Cory, Pen?" Gordy asks her. "Cause I got the feeling that I walked in on something between you two when I got home."

The Richardson Estate; Meggan, Lukas, Donovan, & Olly's Home

Donovan moves into the living room of the Richardson Estate with a huge smile on his face, as his date with Sergio went very well. He feels like he is on cloud nine because after he got home from Mexico, he never thought he would see the police detective again, but he is back in town visiting Simona, and he enjoyed that the was able to reconnect with him. As he moves to the bar to get himself a nightcap, Lukas enters the living room.

"Ah, you're home," Lukas notes to his husband, still feeling upset that Donovan was out with a friend, which ruined the romantic dinner that he planned for them. "How was your dinner?"

"It was great," Donovan turns and smiles back to him. "I had a really nice time."

Lukas huffs back to him, realizing that Donovan was out with a man. There's no other explanation as to why Donovan has such a big smile on his face. "Are you going to tell me about this friend?"

"It was Sergio Lopez," Donovan reveals to him as Lukas' eyes open wider in surprise. "Simona is his sister and he is here visiting, so we…reconnected."

Lukas immediately recalls how much chemistry he felt between his husband and the detective in Mexico and feels his heart sink in his chest. "Oh, sweet for you."

"Don't do that Lukas," Donovan shoots him a look. "You're the one who cheated on me with Jasper and were the one that filed for divorce, not me. So, don't act like the victim now that I'm out enjoying myself, because it's not going to work."

Bruno's Gym

Will steps up to the boxing bag and prepares to start sparring with it. He lands his first couple of punches as he thinks about how he helped Stephanie bring Dominick out of his coma; now that Dominick is awake, he has no idea what will come with his relationship with Eva, as she is still married to him. He continues to unleash his frustration over the situation on the boxing bag.

Ethan moves up to Will and starts to chuckle at the sight. "You're not going easy on the bag, man," Ethan notes to him.

Will stops and looks at Ethan as he wipes his brow. "I guess I am taking out some frustration on the bag. But it's a good release."

"I hear you," Ethan nods back to him. "The best part of the gym is coming to get some pent-up frustration out of your system. I…I guess I have some of my own."

"Let me guess, women problems?" Will chuckles to him.

Ethan nods as he thinks about how kissed Abby recently, which Leah happened to see, and his mother, who he just discovered was his mother, told him to stay away from Abby. He has had an attraction to Abby for so long, that he can't help but want her, but obviously if he is going to have a relationship with Leah, he is going to have tread lightly.

"It's always complicated when it comes to the opposite sex," Ethan chuckles back to him. "I'm guessing you're in the same boat?"

"Same boat, same body of water," Will tells him. "Anyways, it's good to chat with you about this man, but I wanna get back to the boxing bag."

"Yea, have a good workout, Will."

Dominick's Townhouse

Eva opens the door to Dominick's bedroom at his townhouse and moves inside as she sees her husband laying in his bed. He turns his head and sees her moving closer to him. He has returned to home after coming out of his coma and Stephanie has already ensured that he is set up to continue to heal from his stroke. Dominick, however, has continued to ask for Abby as he still believes that she is his wife, not Eva.

"How are you feeling?" Eva asks Dominick as she sits next to him on the bed. "Can I get you anything?"

"I'm fine," Dominick responds to her. "And yes, you can tell Abby to come see me. Abby, she's my wife, not you, Eva."

"It is like I told you at the hospital," Eva looks back at him. "When Frederick faked my death, we were still married, Dominick. So, your marriage to Abby, it's not legal."

"Then I want to make it legal," Dominick replies to her quickly. "You slept with Will; you ended our marriage the moment that happened."

"I did call Abby for you," Eva admits to him. "She said that she will be right over."

Before Dominick can respond, the door opens again, and Abby appears. "Dominick?" Abby asks as Dominick turns and sees her.

"Abigail," he says as he reaches for and Abby rushes up to him, hugging him once she gets to the bed. "I'm so glad that you're here."

"I am here, darling," Abby tells him as they exit their embrace. "And I'm not going anywhere, I'm right here, where I will always be," she says as she turns and looks at Eva, who rolls her eyes at the younger woman.

The Victors Mansion

Frederick slowly walks through the secret tunnels of the mansion as he makes his way to Felicia's room. He recalls how he saw Bryce and he told his grandson that he would help him with his plans, or he would expose Bryce's role in the baby switch a few years ago. Frederick knows that Bryce and Victoria have agreed to make their marriage work, so if the truth about the baby switch came out, it would ruin his marriage once and for all.

"Bryce will help him, he will have too," Frederick whispers to himself as he moves into Felicia's room, where she is still fast asleep because Frederick is drugging her. "He will help me carry out my plans."

Frederick sits next to Felicia and wipes some of the hair out of her face. "And that means, that you and I, my beauty, we will be together very soon. And no one, or nothing, will ever stop that."

The Sugarbowl

Kim' opens the door to the coffeehouse and scurries inside. She is there to collect some coffees for her and the Roboto crew as they are hard at work on the Pink Rose collaboration with Rockwell Mining as the launch is weeks away. After she places her order, she happens to spot Greg sitting in the back booth by himself.

Kim finds herself moving up to her former fiancé. "Greg," she says as she sits across from him. "It's…it's been a while. How are you?"

Greg looks back at her and sighs. "Do you care?"

"Of course, I care," Kim responds to him quickly. "Look, I know that staying married to Robbie came as a blow to you, but I never meant to hurt you, please believe me."

"But you did hurt me," Greg tells her quickly. "If you loved Robbie all this time, why would you get involved with me in the first place? Why would you accept my marriage proposal?"

"I…I can't explain it," she says. "When we were together, I did love you, Greg. It's just…when I learned that Robbie and I were married, I realized that it was what I always wanted."

Greg shakes his head with a chuckle. "And to tell with everyone you two are hurting? Me, Madeline…the list goes on and on. But at least you two are getting what you deserve."

Kim arches her eyebrow back to him. "What does that mean?"

"The lawsuit," Greg looks back at her with a grin on his face. "That's right, I know about it. In fact, Madeline and I have been working together to get back at the two of you; the lawsuit, it was just the first step, Kim."

"Greg…"

"Shut up," he cuts her off. "I hope you and Robbie spend the rest of your lives together in hell, and I'm going to do everything in my power to ensure that it happens."

Twin Peaks General Hospital

Robbie storms off the elevator at the hospital and makes a beeline for Madeline's office. His head is spinning over the fact that she is suing him for 7-million dollars because she feels like she wasn't given a proper divorce settlement. In his mind, this is a stunt to get back and him and Kim for wanting to be happy together. He arrives at the office and opens the door.

"We need to talk," he says as he slams the door closed, causing Madeline to look up from the files in front of her.

"You can't just barge into my office whenever you want," Madeline tells him as she stands up from her desk. "I might have had a patient in here."

"I don't care, this can't wait," Robbie huffs back to her. "I got your little lawsuit papers last night, what the hell are you thinking?"

Madeline chuckles back to him as she moves closer to him. "I'm thinking that you annulled our marriage so you could go back to your ex-wife," she tells him. "Had I known that you weren't coming back to me, I wouldn't have agreed to the annulment. And now, I want what's rightfully mine, or what I would have received in a proper divorce, Robbie."

"We both know that you don't need 7-million dollars!" Robbie yells back at her. "You're doing this to get back at me for staying with Kim."

Madeline purses her lips together. "I, for one, call it karma," she winks back to him. "You're going to get exactly what you deserve Robbie, and I will not apologize for that. Now, I have a very busy day planned so kindly get the hell out of my office before I have security throw your ass out."

The River Rock Casino

"You…you wouldn't dare do that," a shaky Daisy tells Antonio as she continues to stand in his office, rattled that he just said that would reveal to everyone that she was a hooker if she tries to leave the casino. "You wouldn't tell anyone that I was working for you as a call girl."

Antonio chuckles back to her. "Like hell I wouldn't," he replies to her. "You made me a hell of a lot of money, I want you back in that position immediately, and we can pretend that this never happened."

Daisy gets tears in her eyes. "No, I won't let you do this!"

"Fine, then I'll tell everyone, and I haven't even gotten to the secret that I know about Andrew."

Daisy arches her eyebrow back to him. "A secret about Andrew?" she asks him in confusion. "What secret?"

Antonio continues to chuckle to her. "It's huge and would ruin your entire family," he tells her. "So, you can think about it. Either you stay working for me, or I will blow you and your family up completely. What's it going to be?"

Next on One Day at a Time
- Daisy grills Andrew about his secret
- Dominick and Abby grow closer
- Madeline makes a bold move

 
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