Steffy gives birth to a girl whom she named after Liam's late mother and is engaged to Liam. However, despite being the mother of his child and emotionally invested in him, she calls off their engagement when she catches Hope and Liam kissing backstage at Forester, and almost marries Bill when he propositioned her to marry him. Steffy realizes her worth, and ultimately chooses herself. Bill as a sign of good gesture, signs over his 12% of FC to Steffy. Afterwards Steffy returns to Forrester to announce that she is the now a majority shareholder of FC. When Liam arrives at Forester's Steffy tells him that she did not marry Bill, but she will not be with Liam because of Steffy realizing that Liam will never choose between her and Hope and she's decided to focus on her daughter, Kelly and work. She will not repeat the cycle that her mother did with Ridge and Brooke. Steffy gives Hope her blessing to marry Liam as she wants him to be happy, and wants to set an example to Kelly.