Bold and the Beautiful: Deacon & Taylor Finally Free – What’s Next After Their Shocking Split?

Bold and the Beautiful reveals Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) knows the truth about Taylor Hayes (Rebecca Budig) and Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan), we’re going to see Sheila and Deacon officially split up this week and then Taylor and Deacon can be together.

So, we’re wondering what comes next. What comes for Taylor and Deacon now that they can be an official couple? It’s Belynda from Soap Dirt and we’re going to talk about what happens after Sheila steps aside reluctantly this week.

Sheila and Deacon Officially Split on Bold and the Beautiful

So, this week, Taylor cracked under pressure and told Sheila the heartbreaking truth. Yes, she and Deacon are not just in an affair. They are in love and they want to be together. After Sheila confronted Deacon, he confirmed that what Taylor said is true.

And Deacon made clear that Sheila also broke his trust with her lies about Luna. She lied once, he forgave it, and then she went back, doubled down, did it again. But then Sheila started begging Deacon to not walk away from their marriage, you know, not abandon her like everybody else has.

And Sheila may have raged at Taylor, but she’s not raging at Deacon. She’s heartbroken and she’s pleading and she wants him to stay with her. It’s really very sad. But after revisiting the timeline of their romance this week, Sheila’s begging isn’t going to work.

And looks like she and Deacon are done by Friday. And then Taylor and Deacon’s relationship goes public. And we’ll see lots of reactions. As soon as Sheila and Deacon’s conversation is gone and over with, he runs right to the new girl.

So, by the end of this week, we’re also going to see Taylor and Deacon together, but they don’t realize somebody is lurking and watching, and that’s presumably Sheila. So, today I want to talk about what is coming next for Deacon and Taylor after the official split, after they can be out as a couple.

Will Deacon File for Divorce on B&B?

So, first of all, I suspect before too long, Deacon is going to file for divorce from Sheila. That way he’ll be legally single and if Deacon wants to marry his new gal pal Taylor, he will be free to do that. But a divorce could be tricky because Sheila’s heartbroken right now.

But I think that’s going to turn to anger and she might fight the divorce. There’s a chance Deacon may hold off and he won’t immediately run down to the courthouse to file for divorce because he doesn’t want to hurt Sheila. He wants what he wants. She broke his trust.

You know, Deacon’s done with her, but I don’t think he’s going to want to kick Sheila while she’s down. But at the same time, it has to be done. And Taylor may press Deacon to file so that she’s not with a married man. Plus, there’s a chance Sheila could contest the divorce or try and take Deacon to the cleaners.

Sheila was just saying she’s not like Taylor. She doesn’t have any skill. She used to be a nurse, but she can’t do that anymore because of the whole criminal record. She only has that job at Il Giardino because Deacon handed it to her. So Sheila might demand alimony or just make the divorce difficult.

Family Disapproval For Taylor and Deacon on Bold and the Beautiful

Another thing we could see is Taylor and Deacon I think are going to want to start living their best lives as a new couple, but there’s going to be many people aligned against them who disapprove of Taylor being with Deacon.

Taylor’s family is totally against this pairing and it’s understandable. Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) is just terrified that Sheila is going to hurt Taylor or hurt someone else in her family. You know, Finn Finnegan (Tanner Novlan) was kind of like, well, you know, she walked away without killing her.

That’s a positive sign. But Steffy is also furious with her mom, Taylor, for putting the family in danger from Sheila at all after Steffy warned Taylor repeatedly, “Don’t do this.”

Bold and the Beautiful: Hope and Steffy Turn?

So, let’s be real. The fear is legit because not only did Sheila shoot Taylor years ago and she wound up presumed dead for quite a while and Steffy and Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) and I think Phoebe Forrester back then.

They were being raised by Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) as their stepmom. It messed up the family. And then more recently, Sheila shot Steffy and Finn and left them for dead in a filthy alley. So Sheila has changed, but nobody believes it yet because those are all truly unforgivable deeds.

And the shooting of Steffy and Finn are relatively recent deeds within what, like the last 5 years. So, I’m sure Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) is going to have some more harsh things to say to Taylor about Deacon. And Ridge might have some things to say to Deacon directly.

And I do expect Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) and Steffy to be verbally brawling over their parents getting together. Hope wants Deacon to be with Taylor and Steffy is adamantly against it. There’s going to be turmoil. It’s going to cause problems at work for sure.

Will Steffy Kick Taylor Out?

So, the next thing we could see is that Taylor’s living situation may change because I think there’s a good chance Steffy could threaten and then follow through on kicking Taylor out of her house. She already threatened it before, but I could see Steffy one more time like, “Mom, this is your last chance.”

You know, because Sheila was in Steffy’s house walking around with a butcher knife after slithering through the back door, even though, you know, her excuse was she thought she was protecting Taylor. She should never have been in the house to have heard anything. The fact that she thought that was okay is problematic.

The bottom line is Steffy may want to err on the side of caution. Plus, she may think by making Taylor move out that it might scare her mom straight and she breaks up with Deacon and chooses Steffy and the grandkids over the man she loves. But I doubt Taylor’s going to cave.

But Steffy threatened to cut Taylor out of the family and Steffy reminded her of that ultimatum more than once. But Taylor persisted and couldn’t stay away from Deacon. So, we may find out soon exactly what love is going to cost Taylor.

Taylor and Deacon Moving in Together on B&B?

And that leads us to the next point. I’m pretty sure we’re going to see Deacon and Taylor move in together sooner rather than later. Whether Steffy kicks her mom out or lets her stay, you know, either way, we could see Deacon and Taylor buying their own house together, that might bother Sheila.

Taylor and Deacon want a future, and I’m sure they want to settle down together. So, I don’t think they’re going to waste any time moving in together. Taylor loves Deacon and I think they’ll start building their tomorrow together very soon.

Will Sheila Make Things Difficult on Bold?

So, the last thing to consider is that just as Taylor and Deacon think they’re going to get their happily ever after, we could see Sheila making things incredibly difficult for them. Not in a dangerous way. You know, the fact that she’s not getting violent with Deacon or Taylor doesn’t mean that Sheila is going to go away quietly on Bold and the Beautiful.

Deacon and Taylor broke her trust. They hurt her. They betrayed Sheila. And together, they thoroughly broke her heart. So, just because she’s not stabbing anybody doesn’t mean she won’t be looking for revenge on Taylor and Deacon.

Bold and the Beautiful: Sheila Finds New Ways to Get Revenge

As I mentioned before, she might fight the divorce primarily to be difficult so Deacon can’t marry Taylor. Or Sheila might try and take Deacon to the cleaners, you know, take half of Il Giardino in the divorce or try to because Sheila keeps saying, “We built this together.”

And that would really upset Deacon. Or Sheila could punish Taylor and go after her career because she was unethical. She broke the psychiatrist code when she got involved with Deacon, who was her patient. Even though he had stopped being her patient by the time Taylor slept with him, that doesn’t matter.

As a psychiatrist, you can never ever sleep with someone who’s been your patient. So, Sheila could report Taylor, get her fired, and she could get her medical license revoked. You know, Sheila may decide to take something important from Taylor since she took Deacon from Sheila.

So, it looks like Deacon and Taylor are going to jump right into a serious relationship by the end of this week, heading into early next week, and then we’ll see what unfolds from there.