Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Abe Carver Betrays Theo in Secret EJ DiMera Pact

TL;DR: Abe Carver went behind Theo’s back and cut a secret deal with EJ DiMera to strip his own son of power at DiMera. Now Theo knows, and the betrayal could cost Abe everything on Days of Our Lives.

Theo Overhears the Deal That Changes Everything

Brace yourselves, because Days of Our Lives spoilers confirm Abe Carver just blew his own family apart. For months, the former Salem mayor swore he only wanted to shield his son from the DiMera poison. Now Theo has caught his dad in a lie that cuts to the bone. Abe teamed up with EJ DiMera to force Theo Carver out of DiMera Enterprises, and the boy heard him admit every word. This was never protection, just a father picking the family shark over his own son.

Picture it. Theo, still raw from losing the DiMera CEO chair he fought so hard to earn, finally corners his father for answers. Instead of comfort, he gets a confession. Abe admits he went to EJ, the slipperiest DiMera of them all, and asked him to make sure Theo never ran the company. For a young man who has beaten every obstacle Salem ever threw at him, hearing that the sabotage came from his own dad is the cruelest twist yet.

Here is what makes it sting. Abe did not just cave to EJ, he sought him out first. Terrified the DiMera empire would swallow Theo whole the way it once swallowed Lexie Carver, Abe begged Theo’s own uncle EJ to pry the boy loose from the corner office. EJ, ever the opportunist, was delighted to oblige. One rival cleared off the board, and Abe never suspected he had just handed the man in the late Stefano’s Phoenix ring a gift.

And what a gift it was. Days of Our Lives spoilers have tracked EJ’s cold march to the top for months, from that Phoenix ring to his shadow war on Titan through ARO Wealth Management. Clearing Theo, a true DiMera by blood, off the leadership ladder fit that plan perfectly. Fans stitching the timeline together through circulating spoiler chatter could watch EJ tightening his grip while everyone else looked away. Abe handed him the last piece and called it love.

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The Betrayal Abe Carver Cannot Take Back

Theo has spent his whole life proving he belongs at the DiMera table, and he clawed back to a co-CEO seat beside Johnny DiMera after the ouster nobody would explain. Now he knows why the floor fell out from under him. His own father engineered it. When Theo replays every hug and every pep talk, he will hear Abe Carver lying straight to his face. That kind of wound does not close with a simple apology.

Why Did Abe Carver Team Up With EJ DiMera Against His Own Son?

The short answer is fear. Abe watched the DiMera name nearly erase Lexie once already, and he would rather shatter Theo’s trust than watch Salem’s darkest dynasty claim his son too. It is the same fear that has Paulina Price watching her marriage to Abe crumble while he drifts back toward a dying Lexie. Here is the piece other coverage keeps glossing over. Abe was not tricked into this pact, because he walked into EJ’s office and asked for it himself, which flips the whole story onto Abe.

What Abe’s Choice Means for the DiMera War

So where does this leave Salem? Reading between the lines, Abe Carver just became an unwitting soldier in EJ’s takeover, and Theo is now the wild card nobody can control. Do not be surprised if a gutted Theo swings the other way and hurls his DiMera stock straight at EJ out of pure spite, or if he torches the father-son bond for good. My gut says this fracture reshapes the entire power map, and EJ is the only one in Salem still smiling.

Sound off in the comments: is Abe a monster or just a desperate dad who ran out of road? We want your verdict.

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Abe Just Proved Blood Means Nothing Against DiMera Greed

Let us be honest about what we watched. A good man talked himself into believing that betraying his own child was a rescue mission, and he did it hand in hand with the one DiMera who never needed convincing. Abe wanted to keep Theo clean. Instead he taught the boy that the people who love you loudest can knife you the quietest.

We are Team Theo until the credits roll, and we suspect EJ is nowhere near done collecting on the favors he is owed. Come fight it out with us over on our Facebook page and tell us whether Abe deserves forgiveness or exile.