GH’s Serena Baldwin Could Be Lucy Coe’s Secret Weapon Against Michael Corinthos, and Not the Boardroom Kind

SERENA BALDWIN MIGHT WIN THE DECEPTION WAR WITH A WEDDING RING, NOT A VOTE

Michael Corinthos now holds Maxie Jones’s Deception shares and the swing vote Lucy Coe cannot buy, but could Serena Baldwin be the one weapon Lucy actually needs? A whirlwind romance, a rushed marriage with no prenup, and a quick divorce could hand Lucy the shares without a single boardroom fight.

The Shares Nobody Can Stop Fighting Over

Maxie Jones sold her Deception shares to Michael Corinthos before she and Spinelli packed up their entire family for Australia, and that single decision turned Michael into the swing vote Tracy, Lucy Coe, and Brook Lynn are all quietly terrified of. He has already sided with Brook Lynn once, and he keeps insisting his votes will only ever serve the company, not any one woman in that boardroom. Nobody in that room actually believes he can stay that neutral forever.

That is exactly the kind of neutral, principled stance that makes Michael dangerous to Lucy right now. She cannot buy his loyalty and she cannot out-argue him, so if Serena Baldwin is walking into this fight at Lucy’s side, Michael’s shares are the real prize, not the Quartermaines’ seat at the table. Lucy has spent her whole career finding the side door when the front one is locked, and Serena might be exactly that door.

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Serena Has Never Needed a Boardroom to Win a Fight

Serena Baldwin does not have a business background or a paper trail of corporate wins, but she has never needed either to get what she wants. Her entire history is built on walking into a cause with nothing but charm and conviction and walking out having changed the outcome anyway, and Michael Corinthos being newly protective of a company that is not even his birthright is exactly the kind of target she knows how to work.

He is currently involved with Jacinda Bracken, but a steady relationship has never stopped a Port Charles love triangle from forming the moment someone new and unpredictable shows up. Serena Baldwin does not need to plan a seduction. She simply needs to be interesting at the exact moment Michael is already stressed about Willow, his kids, and a company full of women who do not fully trust him. That kind of timing has started far bigger disasters than this one.

A Whirlwind Romance Would Solve Two Problems at Once

Here is where this gets dangerous for Jacinda: if Serena and Michael fall into anything resembling a fast, reckless romance, the show does not need much of an excuse to fast-track it into a wedding. Michael already has a pattern of leaping before he looks when it comes to relationships, and a broke, grieving, impulsive Serena Baldwin chasing her next cause is not going to be the one to slow things down.

No prenup means no protection, and a marriage that flames out fast enough would hand Serena a claim to exactly the shares Lucy needs to win her war. It would not even need to be calculated on Serena’s part for it to work out that conveniently for Lucy, though we would not put it past either of them to see the opportunity coming. A soap wedding built on impulse rarely survives the first real crisis, and this family manufactures crises weekly.

Do you think Michael actually falls for Serena, or is this the kind of thing that blows up before it gets that far? Head to the comments and tell us what you think.

This Ends With Somebody Losing a Wife or Losing a Company

If this plays out anywhere close to how it looks right now, Michael is not only risking his relationship with Jacinda, he is risking the one thing he has left to prove he belongs at Deception at all. A company he swore he would vote for fairly could end up the exact thing that costs him everything else. Head over to our Facebook page and tell us whether you think Serena walks away with a ring, a divorce, or a Deception seat of her own.

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