Rodney Mathews accepted Lace Morris‘ roseate astatine the 2nd roseate ceremonial on Bachelor successful Paradise, but split week shook things up for the pair. While Lace and the different women were sent to a caller location, Rodney and the guys were backmost connected the formation with 5 caller women. Rodney instantly felt a transportation with Eliza Isichei. “Eliza and I are truly connecting,” Rodney admitted. “She has the aspects that I’m looking for successful a aboriginal partner, successful a wife. This is truly breathtaking for me. When I started here, Lace and I were vibing and connecting, and present that Eliza’s here, it’s pugnacious for maine this week being caught successful betwixt 2 astonishing people. I person a batch to fig out.”
Meanwhile, Lace was sulking successful bed, crying arsenic she wondered what Rodney was up to. Five caller men arrived astatine the ladies’ hotel, and Serene Russell and Victoria Fuller urged Lace to enactment herself retired determination and spot if determination mightiness beryllium different transportation for her. “I deliberation Lace should spell connected a day due to the fact that I deliberation Rodney would spell connected a date,” Serene said. “But accepting that is truly hard.”

As it turned out, Rodney did get a day card, and helium asked Eliza to spell with him. “Rodney makes maine consciousness truly good,” Eliza gushed. “He makes maine consciousness truly special. I really, truly similar him and I deliberation those feelings are reciprocated. I deliberation we truly are a large fit. It feels truthful organic. It feels really, truly effortless. I’m excited astir seeing wherever this could each go.”
The 2 enjoyed a romanticist meal wherever they had flirty speech and made out. “I’m really looking for love. This is wherever I’m meant to beryllium astatine this constituent successful time,” Rodney told Eliza. “My extremity is to permission present successful a narration and permission present with a peculiar pistillate I cognize I could bring location to my mom, my family, my friends. I person this feeling ever since you walked successful that I could truly really beryllium palmy successful this acquisition and find idiosyncratic to truly alteration and heighten my life.” Eliza reciprocated those feelings, adding, “I came into this, not with debased expectations, but with nary expectations. I wanted to travel in, beryllium unfastened and person an unfastened caput and spot what happens. Of course, it’s time 2 and I’m already like…it tin happen. It’s possible. It’s happening.”

Lace was inactive successful tears backmost astatine the hotel, and she couldn’t basal not knowing what Rodney was up to for a infinitesimal longer. “The past 2 days person been hell,” she said. “Being truthful unsure is truly starting to instrumentality a toll connected me. I’m fortunate I recovered Rodney. He’s conscionable implicit there, laughing and having a bully time. Is helium adjacent reasoning astir me? Why americium I crying astir idiosyncratic who perchance isn’t crying astir me? I’m truthful anxious due to the fact that I’m acrophobic helium made a stronger transportation and I’m implicit present miserable. It’s clip that I spell backmost to Rodney and spot if we are connected the aforesaid page. I request to fto him cognize however I consciousness astir him. I really, truly privation to prosecute this and instrumentality it earnestly and determination forward, but I presently bash not cognize if helium feels the aforesaid way. I’m truly nervous. Being unsocial without him…I can’t bash that. I volition spell insane.”
So, Lace took it upon herself to caput backmost to the formation and spot what was going on. She, of course, was less-than-thrilled to find retired that Rodney was connected a day with idiosyncratic else. Lace tried to get answers from the different guys astir however Rodney was feeling, and was frustrated erstwhile they didn’t person overmuch to share. Finally, Rodney and Eliza came back…holding hands. Rodney pulled Lace speech to talk, but we won’t spot the aftermath of their speech until adjacent week’s episode.