Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Rafe & David Reunite, Raises Evan’s Son – How DOOL Keeps Daddy Rafe in Salem After Hope Exits?

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Rafe & David Reunite, Raises Evan’s Son – How DOOL Keeps Daddy Rafe in Salem After Hope Exits?

Days of Our Lives (DOOL) spoilers tease that Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) may have a big decision to make down the road. DOOL fans know Rafe and Hope Brady (Kristian Alfonso) decided to reunite, but they were promptly ripped apart again.

Thanks to the lethal threat Eduardo Hernandez (A Martinez) brought to Rafe and Gabi Hernandez DiMera’s (Camila Banus) lives, they had no choice but to flee.

That meant Rafe had to lie to Hope during their emotional goodbye. Rafe fibbed about his mom being sick and blamed his abrupt departure on visiting her in Mexico.

What happens once Hope realizes that’s not true and goes looking for Rafe? Since Alfonso won’t be around to film more episodes, it seems likely Hope will disappear during her Rafe hunt.

Here’s where Days may have a bit of a writing obstacle. Once Rafe comes home and Hope isn’t there, he’ll certainly want to find Hope and bring her back to Salem. That’s especially true if Hope’s missing because of the Rafe search. Rafe may wind up feeling guilty and heartbroken, so he’ll want to track Hope down.

The problem is Days is bringing back Rafe for stories in Salem, not a wild goose chase. Hope won’t be returning, so it would be a pointless mission. Of course, it’s possible Hope will be presumed dead eventually, but that might take some work and time to figure out.

Days of Our Lives might need a more immediate reason to keep Rafe in Salem – and we can think of a good one.

Let’s say Rafe comes home once Eduardo’s threat is eliminated. Rafe might get updates on Hope heading off to search for him and never coming back. Naturally, Rafe would start gearing up for a search of his own – one he’d hope would lead him to Hope and spark a “Rope” reunion.

Just before Rafe can take off, he might get a crucial phone call that changes his life.

Days recently put out a promo that featured some fall returns. One of them was Evan Frears aka Christian Maddox (Brock Kelly), who’s currently behind bars for Jordan Ridgeway’s (Chrishell Stause) murder.

Evan was adamant that he didn’t want Rafe taking care of his son, David Ridgeway (Kyler Ends), but could he change his mind? Evan just might if Zoey Burge (Alyshia Ochse) is suddenly unable to care for David.

Zoey might run into some trouble that ties in with their father, Orpheus (George DelHoyo), which could lead to her death. That’d leave Evan with two choices: let David enter the foster care system or return him to someone he already loves – that someone being Rafe.

Deep down, Evan knows what a great dad Rafe is. He saw it first-hand when he served as Rafe’s nanny. Evan’s probably had some time to reflect and potentially soften in prison. Perhaps Evan could decide to put David first and let Rafe take custody again.

Rafe might even end up with Zoey’s son, too! He’s always wanted to be a father, so Days might finally give him the chance. The catch is Rafe would have to stay in town and focus on being a dad.

Rafe might task others with searching for Hope so he could raise David and potentially Zoey’s kid as well.

Do you think Rafe and David will be reunited? Will that be how DOOL keeps Rafe in Salem without Hope? We’ll keep you in the loop as other news emerges. Days of Our Lives spoilers say some bombshells are looming, so keep watching! CDL’s where you want to be for scorching Days of Our Lives spoilers, news and updates.