Thomas manipulates her to keep quit. Steffy keeps quiet until she sees Thomas's sketch for the showstopper gown for Hope for the future and realize that Liam and Brooke were right about Thomas all along. As well as finally learning that the gown was for Hope for her to marry him again for the sake of Douglas. Steffy confronts Thomas on using Zoe and Douglas to get to Hope. Steffy finally tells Liam and Hope the truth. All three make a plan to expose Thomas at his wedding with Zoe. When Thomas is about to marry Zoe, Hope stops him by wearing the showstopper gown. Thinking that his plan worked, Thomas picks Hope over Zoe, but his plan backfired when Hope tells him that she knows what he has been up to. Hope reveals to the family that Thomas has been using Zoe to get to her and manipulating Douglas into thinking that he would lose another mother if Thomas married Zoe. When Thomas tries to marry Zoe again, Zoe also informs him that Hope already told her before the wedding his plan to be with Hope again and refuses to marry him. Steffy tells Thomas that Hope and Liam knows about the staged kiss, as well as Hope knowing about the showstopper gown. The family and mostly Ridge are disappointed in Thomas because they believed him over Brooke and Liam. Thomas then pleads with Hope to be with him, but Hope refuses and rejects him. In July 2020, after a motorbike accident, Steffy lands at the hospital and meets her doctor, John Finnegan (Tanner Novlan) and both experience an immediate attraction to each other and cultivate a love at first sight connection. Suffering from a back injury and fractured ribs, Steffy began taking pills for pain relief as prescribed by Finn. Finn visited Steffy, as he lived near Steffy's home, to drop off her missing paperwork. He asks Steffy that since he lived nearby if he could come see her to check on her recovery, Steffy promptly agrees and expresses how she would love that. During the visits, the two bond over past emotional trauma and pain. Steffy soon developed a heavy dependence on the pills and began asking Finn for an extra prescription during one of his house visits. He accepts it once, before flat out refusing thereafter due to the addictive nature of opioids. Finn later decides