1982 (#36) - Kevin's doubts and Victor's manipulations on paternity test

As the weeks go by, however, the first problems between Kevin and Nikki reoccur on time, with Nikki determined to make her case against Victor about Victoria's fatherhood. On the other hand, it is Kevin himself who asks Nikki to resolve once and for all the question of the paternity of the child, after Victor also tells him that Victoria cannot be his daughter. However, when Nikki announces that he has arranged an appointment with a private clinic to carry out a paternity test on Victoria, Victor begins to have doubts himself, remembering that at the time the doctors told him that a vasectomy does not guarantee one hundred percent the impossibility of having children. Victor, therefore, used Katherine's help so that he would not turn out to be Victoria's father, just in the case that the biological tests confirm it. It is therefore easy for Katherine to bribe the nurses at the clinic to make Victor satisfied. After getting the tests results confirming Victor is Victoria's father, Katherine asks him if he wants to go ahead in order to hide the truth. Victor suddenly seems doubtful and, remembering the child lost by Julia, almost seems happy to be able to raise his daughter with Nikki. However, driven by a wave of pride, he confirms to Katherine that he wants to lie about the tests. It's not easy for Katherine to lie to her friend, but in the end she convinces herself that she's sorry for the hated Allison. Nikki is shocked to learn that Victoria's father is, contrary to what she thought, Kevin. This convinces the two of them to try again to make their marriage work, even though they both know they have other people in their hearts.

1982 (#34) - Victoria's birth and Nikki's return

Everyone's life in Genoa City is shattered by the return of Nikki, called back to the city by Katherine, having learned from the Nikki that she has given birth to a baby girl. Everyone is so happy to embrace the newcomer and especially Kevin, who confesses to Nikki that things between him and Carolyn didn't go exactly the way they wanted to and that he is so ready to give their marriage a new chance. Nikki seems quite skeptical, but after receiving another rejection from Victor she reluctantly accepts it. Allison proposes to name the baby girl Victoria, just like Earl's mother and then Kevin's grandmother who had passed away a few years earlier; a request that makes Allison's husband, Earl, overjoyed and now reconciled with his wife. The choice, surprisingly, is welcomed by Nikki, who is actually happy to name her little girl after what she feels is her real father, Victor, the only man she loves.