YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS SPOILERS - THURSDAY, JUNE 18: Cane Ashby Trusted the Wrong Partner and Phyllis Summers Makes Him Pay
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YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS SPOILERS – THURSDAY, JUNE 18: Cane Ashby Trusted the Wrong Partner and Phyllis Summers Makes Him Pay

Y&R Spoilers: Cane Ashby gets struck where it wounds as Phyllis turns on him, Victor leashes Matt Clark, and Victoria dreads for Nikki.

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Young and the Restless Spoilers (Y&R Spoilers) Phyllis Summers June 18

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PHYLLIS SUMMERS STRIKES CANE ASHBY RIGHT WHERE IT WOUNDS

TL;DR: On Thursday’s Young and the Restless, Phyllis Summers turns on her former partner in crime and goes for Cane Ashby’s softest spot, Victor tightens his leash on Matt Clark, and Victoria quietly panics over Nikki’s failing health.


Thieves Always Turn on Each Other

There is no honor among thieves, and today Phyllis Summers proves it with surgical precision. She and Cane Ashbywere partners in the crime of the year, the two of them running a corporate heist that tore Newman Enterprises clean out of Victor’s hands before it all came crashing down around them. Partners like that know exactly where each other’s soft spots are buried, and today she presses on the tenderest one she can find.

Cane Ashby always fancied himself the smooth operator in this arrangement, the genius in the room while everyone else scrambled to keep up. Cane Ashby is learning the hard way that a woman scorned and cornered does not fight fair, and Phyllis has never once in her life fought fair. When she decides to wound someone, she does not aim for the arm, she aims for the heart, and Cane Ashby is squarely in her sights.


Have a theory about the blow Phyllis lands on Cane Ashby, or what she is really after now? Fire your wildest predictions to amber@soapoperamagazine.com and we may feature your scoop on the site!


The Black Knight Tightens His Grip

Across town, the air gets colder. Victor lays down the law with Matt Clark, the man he dragged back from the brink and is keeping on the shortest leash in Genoa City. Victor does not extend mercy without a price tag attached, and today the bill comes due in full.

Clark thought he had clawed his way toward redemption, but the man pulling his strings has other plans. When the Black Knight tightens his grip, the only question left is how much of his soul Matt has to hand over to keep breathing free air.

A Daughter’s Quiet Dread

The loudest alarm of the day rings in the quietest room. Victoria cannot shake her fear for her mother, whose blinding headaches keep getting waved off as nothing more than stress. A daughter knows when something is wrong long before a mother will admit it, and the dread coiling in Victoria’s gut refuses to be silenced.

There is a storm gathering around the Newman matriarch, the kind no empire or fortune can hold back, and the woman who loves her most is the first to feel it coming.


Who do you trust less right now, Phyllis or Cane Ashby? Sound off in the comments and let the rest of Genoa City know where you stand!


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