Hope Logan's fight with Steffy Forrester hints at what she's really furious about on Bold and the Beautiful

I'd speculated that Hope Logan was using Carter Walton on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Wednesday, Dec. 4's episode added more fuel to that argument.

Hope has been unrepentant about the attempted coup she and Carter launched as a means of rectifying the perceived wrongs they've supposedly suffered. Anytime the two of them are met with reason, they bypass it in favor of playing the victim. But, interestingly though not surprisingly, it was a fight with Steffy Forrester that caused Hope's mask to slip.

She's been adamant that she and Carter only tried to take Forrester Creations because they felt they had no other choice. Steffy, however, is skilled at getting under Hope's skin and the more they argued in the cabin after she barged in, the more it became clear that the former brand ambassador is using words like "we" but this whole situation is about her and only her.

Hope is tired of being talked down to by Steffy and treated as less than because she bears the Logan name. She'd said months ago that she wanted to bring her rival down a peg and this seems to have been her opportunity though she didn't plan for it to be, it fell in her lap. Hope accused Steffy of wanting to take everything from her until she had nothing left and that started when the Co-CEO got through to her brother, Thomas, and urged him to break things off with Hope if she couldn't commit to him.

Steffy brought Thomas up more than once during the argument and each time Hope reacted strongly. Annika Noelle's acting choices in the scene implied that the dissolution of Thope also factored into Hope's decision making regarding the company. Hope's convinced that the misfortune she's been experiencing has to do with Steffy's pettiness, that she's been out to get her from the beginning, and that's been a repeated refrain for some time now.

Thomas left her because of Steffy not because she wasn't ready to get married and she couldn't give him any indication on whether she would ever be ready to marry him. Hope for the Future was on the chopping block for multiple quarters not because sales dropped and then stagnated no matter the new collections but because Steffy was being vindictive and wouldn't support her line.

HFTF was canceled and she was fired not because of her past attempt at trying to steal Steffy's husband, Finn, and then refusal to say who she was wearing lingerie for in the office if it wasn't for him, but because Steffy wanted to humiliate her and leave her with nothing.

At each turn it is Steffy's fault and that's the crux of the issue, that's what Hope's truly mad about. She can't take ownership of her actions so she must put the onus of her troubles on her nemesis. It's what's led her to try to take Forrester and push Carter to make decisions that benefit her even at the detriment of his standing at the company and his relationships with the Forresters, particularly his best friend Ridge.

At some point, something is going to have to give and when it does, Carter may be the one who feels betrayed as this "push back" as Hope referred to it doesn't really have anything to do with him. It has everything to do with Hope wanting someone who will prioritize her interests and needs. This was made clear when she told Steffy that Forrester needs leadership that takes into consideration merit and the intent behind the work i.e. someone who isn't going to cancel her line because it's not turning a profit.

Hope talks a good talk saying that the coup was for the "underdog" and the "voiceless" at Forrester Creations and how Carter is going to make the company better. But at the end of the day, the people who work at Forrester like their jobs, they're happy with their working environment, it's Hope who has had issues and it's Hope who wants a change. She thinks she can have that as long as Steffy and Ridge are out of the way. It has nothing at all to do with Carter beyond what he can do for her.

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