 Upon Abby's return, Abby was romantically linked to Marco Dapper's Carmine Basco, when the two begin dating much to him being shunned by the town, but Abby is able to convince some of them that Carmine is a good soul.However the relationship wasn't given closure upon Rylan's exit from the soap opera.Dapper admitted in an interview that the writers "didn't really know what to do with him after Abby left the first time".