It feels like it's been forever since Sloan stole Nicole's baby. Days of Our Lives often drags things out for ridiculously long, and it didn't help that the left us with substitute scribes who kept things more or less in a holding pattern for months. At the rate this story is moving, baby Jude will be a teenager before Nicole finds out he's his, and not a rapidly aged one! But spoilers for Days of Our Lives during the week of 5-20-24 suggest that there may finally be some significant movement forward here.

This story needs to hurry up and end for another reason. Soon Nicole will leave Salem, and it would suck if that happened before she was reunited with her son. t for wrongful termination is still moving forward, and the actress recently said she believes her final scenes will air at the end of July.

That means this story needs to end SOON. It's bad enough that a beloved character is being written out under these circumstances without leaving the story hanging. The spoiler video suggests we're at a messy crossroads, with Eric believing the baby is EJ and Nicole's and EJ determined to keep it secret that Eric is the father.

Nicole is already inching toward Eric, and EJ just caught her drunkenly kissing her ex. EJ is not one to slink quietly away and let his wife go. Ask Sami what happened when he found out she had slept with Lucas! At least Eric won't suddenly decide to kidnap Nicole to keep her safe from her EJ and end up in prison for scaring and tormenting her, so there's .