throughout 2014, maya becomes obsessed with photographer oliver jones's (zack conroy) intentions toward rick's niece aly forrester (ashlyn pearce) when oliver implies that he is using aly to secure his job. as everyone grows suspicious of maya's interest in oliver and aly, she confides in oliver that she believes she, not caroline is the right woman for rick. after rick rejects her advances, maya admits to caroline that she fell for carter on the rebound and just needed closure. maya later reveals a recording where oliver discusses using aly to secure his job and a furious carter dumps maya when he confronts her about her obsession with acquiring status and prestige. maya takes advantage of caroline's growing closeness with rick's stepbrother ridge forrester (thorsten kaye) and plants suspicions in the minds of rick and ridge's fiancée, katie logan (heather tom) about caroline and ridge's relationship. maya later exposes ridge and caroline during a board meeting forcing caroline to admit to sharing a few kisses with ridge. a devastated rick turns to maya, they make love and maya later convinces rick to accept to ceo position from his father eric forrester (john mccook) despite eric initially choosing ridge over him. rick and maya soon move in together and rick appoints maya as the lead model at "forrester creations". a confident maya orders carter to serve caroline with annulment papers on rick's behalf despite warnings that rick still loves caroline. maya is shocked when rick suddenly announces that he is going back to caroline as eric is threatening to remove him as ceo. though she is unhappy, rick assures maya he wants a future with her.