CORONATION Street fans have been left terrified for Summer Spellman after her baby lie was finally exposed.
The teen – played by Harriet Bibby – has been keeping the fact she miscarried her baby a secret from surrogates Mike and Esther for a couple of weeks.
Summer miscarried her baby last month but hadn’t told Mike or Esther
Mike told Summer she ‘disgusts’ him for lying
Despite knowing she was no longer carrying the child they wished to adopt once it was born, she still took a handsome payment from the couple to help pay for boyfriend Aaron’s dad’s alcohol rehabilitation programme.
Summer has struggled with her deceit and the young couple have been trying to find a way to tell Mike and Esther the pregnancy has come to an end without revealing what really happened.
In tonight’s hour long episode, Summer pretended she was off for a baby scan, but was horrified when Mike and Esther not only showed up unannounced to take them to the hospital, but once inside, Mike appeared again asking if he could accompany Summer in for the scan.
Summer and Aaron got a last minute reprieve of sorts when Esther raced into the hospital and tearfully revealed her mother had died.
However, it left Summer feeling like she still couldn’t tell them that there was no baby either, and informed Aaron they’d have to keep it a secret for a bit longer.
But that evening back at the flat, Mike arrived asking if he could see a picture of the scan to cheer Esther up.
Having already thought about what to do regarding a scan picture, Summer showed him a generic one she had saved to her phone from the Internet.
However, Mike was immediately suspicious, wondering why it was on her phone and not a print out, as well as why there was no name or information around the edge.
As Summer visibly squirmed, he asked: “Are you lying to me?” before Summer admitted everything.
As Mike kicked off, Aaron said: “Mike you’ve got to understand how hard this has been”.
But he cried: “Not as hard as it’s going to be for Esther!”
Turning to Summer he asked: “What were you going to do? Stick a pillow up your jumper?”
He then asked when she had lost the baby, and when she revealed it was the 28th November, he said: “You took our money? Knowing you had lost the baby? You conned us!”
He then demanded: “I want it back! Every penny! Otherwise I’ll report you to the police!”
Aaron tried to hit back saying he couldn’t do that as what he and Esther were doing was illegal too, but Mike as having none of it.
He said: “You want to play hard ball do you? Because I’ll gladly take you on!”
Before he left, he turned to Summer and said: “You disgust me.”
Coronation Street viewers were quick to comment on the revelation on Twitter, with one writing: “Ooo, Mike was actually a bit scary this evening when he found out that Summer had been lying!”
Another added: “Summer and Aaron had both better sleep with one eye open. Esther and Mike are coming for them!”
A third tweeted: “Omg the evil mike!”
Mike and Esther had followed Summer and Aaron to the hospital
The couple had wondered how long their could keep lying
