Kate Reveals She’s Not Blind When Jake Confesses He Loves Gabi More Than the DiMera CEO Position

In the Monday, June 28, 2021, full episode recap of Days of our Lives, Kate shows herself, Jake is angry at losing the CEO position, EJ and Chad fight over who will become CEO, and Eli has advice for Rafe. In case you missed out, on Friday’s Days of our Lives episode, the board ousted Jake as CEO of DiMera.

Rafe walks into his office at SPD and holds Duke the bear as he flashes to kissing Nicole in his dream. Eli appears and asks what’s up with him and the bear. Rafe tells him it’s a gift from Nicole. Eli laughs. When he learns it’s an inside joke, Eli wonders if Ava would like that. He thinks Rafe has a thing for Nicole but will stay out of his business. Rafe admits he’s sort of right. There was a time when he thought he and Nic could be more than friends. But she’s still in love with Eric. “The guy’s been in Africa for a long time.” Rafe doesn’t say he’s over Nicole so Eli accuses him of asking for trouble. Rafe admits he dreamed he kissed Nicole. Eli reminds him of what Ava has done in the past and tells him he’s in trouble. “Throw this bear in the incinerator,” he suggests.

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At Rafe’s, Ava tells Nicole that Lucas was really jealous when he learned EJ was back. Since they got closer when they were locked into the DiMera tunnels, they wonder what happened. Ava says Rafe knows that Sami and Lucas are hiding something. Nicole reveals that Xander thinks they slept together. She needs to know because she’s had it with Sami being a “hypocritical bitch.” Ava talks about never being with a man like Rafe. Things are going well. She wonders what to make for dinner. Nicole’s glad and suggests Creole since Rafe mentioned wanting to go to New Orleans for the food. Ava invites Nicole. She tries to get out of it.

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At the pub, Sami isn’t worried about Nicole finding out that she and Lucas had sex. Kristen won’t be a problem since she handled it this morning. Lucas asks what Sami did now. She merely kept her out of the DiMera vote. Lucas thinks Sami is underestimating Kristen’s ability to multi-task. And Nicole’s determined to find out if they had sex. He asks her to let it go that Nicole might have cheated on Eric and then tells her he wants her to be happy, no matter who she is with. Sami tears up as Nicole watches from the door. She walks up and Sami says she’ll drop the subject of her sleeping with Xander. Nicole thanks her and takes Henry and goes. Once she’s gone, Sami is more determined than ever to screw Nicole to the wall.

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At an undisclosed location, Kristen reads about her brother being back in Salem. She laughs to herself that he’s already turning Salem upside down. She thinks about EJ going back to Sami and sits down and pens a letter. “Dearest EJ…” She tells him that she heard Sami sneaking Lucas out of the house and is sorry to tell her brother that they were talking about having sex the night before. Sami admitted she cheated. She slips the letter into an envelope and think to herself that Sami’s getting what she deserves.

At DiMera, Kate votes to oust Jake from DiMera and then removes her sunglasses and looks directly at Jake when he asks what the hell she’s doing. She convinced him not to contact Kristen about the DiMera vote today.  “You’re not a true DiMera until one of your own stabs you in the back,” EJ says to his brother. Jake takes off with Gabi after him and Kate asks Li to escort her out. The brothers cheer and hug each other, happily. Li returns and asks who the new CEO is. Chad and EJ both say, “I am,” simultaneously. Li leaves to let them fight it out. They snipe at each other and things get nasty. EJ blames him for allowing Stefan and Jake to take over their company and thinks he ruined his marriage too. “You’re an arrogant pompous ass,” Chad says. Tony yells, “That’s enough.” He thinks they’ve been behaving as children. “Okay, oh wise one. Then who do you think should be in charge?” Li returns. Tony asks them to be CO-CEOs. They shake on it and Li goes to tell the board.

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At Paulina’s Abe tells her she tired him out last night. She woke up due to a doozy of a dream. “It was a little racy,” she confides. He’s intrigued, but she admits it was about a woman. She made love to her. Maybe she’s sexually fluid like her daughter. She doesn’t know. Does he have a problem with that. He says no, as long as she’s not… “Crazy about anyone other than you?” Paulina admits she was brought up to be anti-gay but she has a mind of her own and no issues with sexual orientation as long as they’re good people. “It’s different when it’s your own child,” she says. Later, Paulina reveals she dreamed about Abe a few nights before.

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At home, Jake yells at Kate, asking why she voted against him at the board meeting. Kate planned on it until she learned she was just an obligation. Gabi is the reason she voted him out. Gabi walks in. “Excuse me?” Jake tells Kate that he’s still committed to her. He only slept with Gabi because he thought Kate left him. Gabi throws a fit and Kate tells him to pack up their things and get her out of there, and then swear he’ll never see, speak to Gabi again. Then she’ll change her vote. Gabi says it’s okay. She knows how much he’s come to love this job. “But I love you more,” he says. Jake’s sorry. Kate shrugs. She reveals she’s not blind and never was. She calls them the most “Craven, most self-serving creatures I’ve ever met.”

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