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GH SIZZLING AFFAIR! Could Ava Jerome and Drew Cain’s “Common Interest” Turn Into Something Messier? (and more dangerous?)
GH’s Ava Jerome and Drew Cain affair could hand Willow Tait the perfect excuse to flip the script on her own messy divorce.
DREW CAIN AND AVA JEROME COULD BE HEADED FOR A DANGEROUS ALLIANCE
TL;DR: Drew Cain and Ava Jerome sat down as reluctant allies with a shared Sonny Corinthos problem, but the way they’re already talking about protecting their kids says this won’t stay platonic for long. Our theory: it turns into an affair, and Willow Tait catches them together right as her quiet divorce deal with Drew is barely dry. Suddenly the woman who shot her husband gets to play the wronged wife instead, and we cannot stop thinking about it.
Ava and Drew Cain Aren’t as Platonic as They’re Pretending
Ava Jerome invited Drew Cain for drinks at the Metro Court Gardens, and she made it very clear up front that she doesn’t even like him. She called his recovery worth celebrating anyway, which is a strange thing to say about a man you claim to dislike, and Hudson Parker watched the whole thing unfold from another table.
The two eventually landed on a “common interest” to explore: taking Sonny Corinthos down a peg. Ava’s terrified he’s coming for custody of Avery, and the second she brought it up, Drew Cain got fired up about protecting Scout, insisting he’d destroy anyone who tried to take her. He told Ava she should feel exactly the same way about Avery, and for a second it almost sounded like the start of something more than a business arrangement.
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This Kind of Alliance Never Stays Platonic on GH
Two of Port Charles’s most dangerous, self-interested people bonding over shared paranoia about their kids is the kind of setup that never stays strictly business on this show. Drew even pointed out that being Scout’s only parent works in his favor, while Ava admitted she envies him for it, since she still has to walk a tightrope with Sonny.
Add in the fact that Drew Cain recently agreed to a quiet divorce from Willow Tait, no public scandal, no mention of what actually happened between them, he keeps the house and the money, and you’ve got a freshly single man bonding intensely with a woman who already understands exactly how ruthless he can be. That’s a combustible combination, and daytime has never once let that setup stay purely strategic for long.
What Happens When Willow Tait Finds Out?
Here’s where it gets messy. Say the Ava and Drew alliance turns physical, and Willow finds them together before the ink on their divorce agreement even dries. She doesn’t know the full story about what happened to Drew, but she absolutely knows how to work a room, and walking in on her soon-to-be ex with Ava Jerome hands her something she doesn’t currently have: real leverage.
Right now Willow agreed to let Drew keep everything to make him disappear quietly. Catching him with Ava changes the math completely. Suddenly she’s not the woman who shot her husband and kept him trapped for months; she’s the devoted wife who nursed him back to health only to be humiliated the moment he could walk again, and every room in Port Charles would eat that story up.
Willow Tait Would Absolutely Use This
Willow rewriting herself as the wronged party this fast would be one of the boldest moves this show has pulled in a while, and given everything she’s already gotten away with, we would not put it past her for a second. She could use the affair to renegotiate the entire deal, the house, the money, even public sympathy, all while Drew is left holding evidence about her past that suddenly looks a lot less damaging next to a fresh betrayal everyone can see with their own eyes.
Ava, for her part, would have no idea she handed Willow Tait the exact kind of ammunition she’s been searching for since the moment Drew woke back up. Two women who think they’re playing everyone else could end up playing right into each other’s hands instead, and honestly, we would watch every single second of it unfold.
It also raises an uncomfortable question for Drew Cain himself. He spent weeks promising Willow would pay for what she did to him, and yet an affair with Ava would hand her the exact narrative she needs to make him look like the villain all over again. For a man this obsessed with control, that would be a spectacular own goal.
Think Willow would really spin an affair into sympathy, or has she finally run out of moves? Head to the comments and tell us.
Port Charles Cannot Handle Another Love Triangle Right Now
Between Drew’s messy exit from his marriage and Ava’s ongoing Sonny drama, this canvas already has enough combustible material without adding an affair into the mix. Head over to our Facebook page and tell us if you think Ava and Drew actually go there.
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