TheBattle of the Lukesfinally came to an end on Tuesday night’s episode ofThe Bachelorette.
Hannah Brownsat Luke S. andLuke P.down to talk things out before the rose ceremony, but she ended up getting up and leaving midway through their discussion.
“I just don’t see a fit for Hannah,” Luke P. said of Luke S. But then the import/export manager, 24, confessed, “I’ve admitted to you both that I don’t even know you that well, and I don’t have any business saying whether you’re here for the right reasons or not.”
Over it, Hannah quietly walked out, and hostChris Harrisoninformed the men that the cocktail party had ended, and they would go straight to the rose ceremony. But beforeMiss Alabama 2018could hand out a single rose, Luke S. asked if he could talk to her one more time.
“I’m really sorry if I’ve caused you any pain,” the political consultant, 29, told her. “It’s just been hard for me to have to defend my character time and time again. I would just urge you to keep your eyes open for, I think you know who I’m talking about. Just be wary. Keep your eyes open, all right?”
Luke S.; Hannah Brown; Luke P.Ed Herrera/ABC via Getty Images (3)
The two hugged and parted ways, and back at the rose ceremony, Hannah informed herremaining suitorsthat Luke S. left on his own terms. “I don’t want anybody here that doesn’t want to be here,” she added. Hannah proceeded to dole out the roses, sending John Paul Jones and Matteo home.
As for why Hannah chose to keep Luke P. around, she explained in an on-camera interview, “Luke P. is still here because my heart wants him to be here. My head doesn’t always want him to be here. It makes it really difficult to know what’s the best decision to make. We know we have crazy chemistry, but there are red flags, and I honestly haven’t had the time to explore our relationship the way that I feel like it needs to be explored.”
Hannah Brown.ABC/Mark Bourdillon
Luke felt things would work out differently. “I don’t see this date going any other way but phenomenal,” he said.
When the two met up in the Scottish countryside, Hannah wasted no time confronting Luke about her issues with him. “Last week all the guys saying how they felt about you just like really bothered me because I just don’t get it,” she said to Luke. “Why the guys don’t like you, I just don’t understand.”
Luke blamed it on how he handled the situation with Luke S.
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Hannah assured him, “It’s not really the Luke S. thing.” Rather, she wanted Luke P. to express how he felt instead of saying what he thought she wanted to hear.
“I don’t want to know what happened,” she said. “I want to know how it affects you and your heart and me. Does that make sense? How does it make you feel with our relationship? With you as a person?”
Frustrated, Hannah and Luke P. took a break, and she confided in the crew. “I don’t know what to do,” Hannah told them. “There’s something there, I just don’t know how to get out of this. And I don’t want to give up on it and I want to get passed it. He has to have emotions. It’s obvious he has emotions but speak the emotions I guess. Right? Is that what’s missing? I feel like that’s what’s missing. Can somebody talk to him about what it means when I say, how do you feel?”
When producers reminded Hannah that it was up to her to get through to Luke, she tried again. “I just feel like you say things that you know that I’m going to like and that are important to me and I just want to talk to you about normal stuff,” Hannah told Luke. “Crap happens and I just want to know, like, do you like macaroni and cheese or spaghetti more? I just want to know the real stuff. It’s frustrating. I feel like you’re just talking in ways that sound good.”
Luke insisted, “I’m never going to do that, I promise,” and continued to say how much he wanted to give Hannah “clarity,” though never shared his stance on the mac and cheese versus spaghetti question.
They moved into the dinner portion of the date, though Hannah confirmed, “Today was terrible.”
So Luke went big in an attempt not to go home. “I love every single thing about you,” he told Hannah. “The way you’ve handled everything. Even your flaws.”
But at the end of the day, Luke’s Hail Mary didn’t convince Hannah. “This is not going anywhere,” she said. “I don’t know what reason I have to give Luke a rose.”
The Bacheloretteairs Mondays (8 p.m. ET) on ABC.
source: people.com
