Max is already getting it off the wimpy cop dealing with Lucy's murder, doubt he has designs on Stacey currently.
ok he's been known to ditch one woman for another but this feels like an overreaction to a throwaway comment.
They teased us with Stax when Stacey first came back and it didn't happen, she ran out on him, I don't think shes interested anymore and hasn't been for years. On her part it was mostly a revenge thing for Bradley dumping her.
Whitney has or had the twins that's why she wasn't staying there. And Carol has only just been given the all-clear having had major surgery so it makes sense that she'd go to Max's where there's also room.