Episode 19 – Arturo is killed

Arturo is killed by garden-variety thieves who stole his briefcase and discover the value of the documents he was carrying only when they read of the arrest of Rodrigo in the paper. Jose Luis is terribly hurt by this because Arturo is his best friend, he said to himself, it’s the work of Rodrigo Arciniegas.
The thieves plan to blackmail Rodrigo’s family for a ransome. Auturo’s death is the last straw for Soledad, she couldn’t take it anymore. She followed Jose Luise and Carlos Alberto to the police station to talk to the detective; the Arciniegas were all at the Police station and Caroline too. Alejandro went to meet with Soledad where she was standing and tried to explain some things to her about the situation but she told him that she wants nothing to do with him and that she regretted knowing him, she said she wishes to see Rodrigo rot in jail for this murder. Those words really hurt Alejandro, he thought of it, how can Soledad the woman he loved regret every knowing him.
Alejandro is furious with his mother when she told Kike that his grandfather killed another man, he doesn’t like the way his mother is poisoning the mind of little Kike with the happenings in his family and it is really affecting him. Alejandro decided to move out of the house and he tells Carolina who suggests that he moved in with her and he accepted.
Arturo’s murderers were later arrested and they confess to the crime but while in the prison, Rodrigo discusses with his lawyer and Oscar about his plan to help the thieves escape in exchange for the documents. They told them that they have burnt the documents and they demanded money from Rodrigo’s lawyer. Rodrigo is freed again.
Alejandro moves in with Carolina and they try to explain the arrangement to their children who doesn’t understand why they should live together when they are not married.

Episode 18 - Alvaro dies

Alvaro confides in Emperatrix about his discussion with Rodrigo and his threat and he begs Emperatrix not to say anything to Isabela, especially because he and the wife of Aristides were lovers.
Carlos Alberto announces his engagement to Soledad. Kike is affected about the happenings in his family, he calls Rodrigo a murderer and this hurts him very much. Rodrigo visits Soledad and begs her to take a gift to Kike.
Alvaro tells Isabel that Rodrigo is blackmailing him and he told her the relationship between himself and her mother how she died in a car accident due to his fault. Rodrigo has threatened to tell Isabela about it and Alvaro does not want this so he decided to do it himself. Isabel goes nuts, calls Alvaro a murderer, and tells him she hates him. The next scene is of Emperatrix telling Lupe that there is a secret in Alvaro’s past and then they heard a shot and rushed into the office and saw Isabel with a gun in her hand and Alvaro dead. Emperatrix calls Isabela a murderer and calls the police. Isabela was arrested and Soledad visits her in the police custody. She tells Soledad she didn’t kill Alvaro that she feels guilty because of the mean things she said to him, that she left the room and returned when she heard the shot. Isabela was arrested but was later released on bail. Alvaro is buried.

Isabel discovers that she is pregnant and José Luis is thrilled, tells her he loves her even more. Leonardo and Caroline saw Soledad at the hospital and assume she’s the one expecting, they told Alejandro. Alejandro somehow thinks the pregnancy should be his and visits Soledad just as they are about to celebrate the pregnancy and the engagement of Carlos Alberto and Soledad. Isabel tells him to leave. Alejandro told Carolina that he thinks Soledad is pregnant with his child.
Emperatrix begs Lucia for help and she agrees to give her a job as her assistant. Brenda visits Mercedes at the convent and tells her to leave Reinaldo alone, that she is a hypocrite who doesn’t really love him. When Reinaldo visits her, she told him that after talking with Brenda she is beginning to doubt her love for him.
Soledad tells Alejandro she is not pregnant but he doesn’t know if he should believe her. Soledad tells Providencia that she is worried because of the jealousy of Carlos Alberto.
Lucia is unhappy to hear that Rodrigo has taken Kike and Vanessa (Carolina’s daughter) out for a drink and Bernarda is pleased by her discomfort.
Isabela feels very tired and doesn’t look well. She assumes it is because of the pregnancy. Isabela goes on trial and Emperatrix testifies against her. Isabela tells the court that she left the office after Alvaro told her about his relationship with her mother and her death. But after she had taken a few steps, she heard a shot and returned, and found him dead and she picked up the gun. Isabela is discharged and acquitted but Emperatrix is not happy.
Mercedes discovers that Lucia is Oscar’s sister. Rodrigo tells Anselmo that he has control of some property of Aristides’ that Isabel and Soledad doesn’t know about and that he needs an accommodating notary who can change the title.
Alejandro and Caroline decides to get out of town and Soledad and Carlos Alberto decides to do same but unknowingly they went to the same place, while on the beach, Alejandro sights Carlos Alberto and Soledad playing and he became jealous. He hurried Caroline and they left the beach, he went to the hotel and asked for Soledad’s room no. Later, he barges in on the hotel room where Carlos Alberto has taken a drunk Soledad, he finds them kissing on the bed and drags Soledad out of the room and into the car. They argue, she tells him she wants to forget him, and asks if he wants to kill her, Alejandro goes crazy and starts to drive erratically, says maybe that was the way to end the pain. Then it turns out that it was all a nightmare of Soledad’s whi1e she was in the car with Carlos Alberto.

Episode 17 - Rosarita and Guillermo

Rodrigo denies everything that was said about him. Alejandro wanted to know the truth but Reinaldo tells him their father did not kill anyone, it was a lie invented by Isabela. Soledad too almost believes Rodrigo’s denials.
Guillermo and Rosarita plan their wedding. Emperatrix seduces Alvaro, all she’s interested in is money. Alejandro meets a new woman, Carolina Reyes, a doctor with a daughter who is a friend of Kike’s from school and he invites her to join his practice with Leonardo.
Soledad gives Rosarita her wedding dress to use on her wedding. Lucia changes her look completely, she has taken charge of all Rodrigo’s properties, and she’s now a rich lady.
Rodrigo is charged only with bigamy due to the lack of sufficient proof to the murder of Aristides Ruiz. He was asked to pay a large fine for his bail and the money was gathered by Reinaldo, and he gets out of jail.
Carlos Alberto is disappointed by his lack of success in getting Rodrigo jailed and he promises to devote himself to getting Rodrigo back behind bars.
Oscar tells his sister Lucia that he is broke because his daughter turned over full control of everything he has to Rodrigo. Rodrigo’s sons confront him for not telling them who their mother was all this while but he tells them he saved them from three bad women: one a drunk, the other crazy, and the last who wanted to abort his child. He tells them they are what they are because of him.
Rosarita and Guillermo finally got married but Rodrigo and Reinaldo arrived late at the reception and make a scene and Guillermo asked them to leave. Emperatrix asks Lucia for money but she refuses and asked her to come and work for her instead.
Mercedes is not comfortable with Reinaldo’s attitude; she then decides to divorce him. She was about to give him the annulment papers when she overhears him talking to a lawyer about a house he wants to buy for Brenda and she tells him off.
Soledad visits Lucia and she decides to give her the family house as a token for what Rodrigo has done to her so she, Alejandro and Kike can move somewhere else with no bad memories.
Isabela’s nana reprimands her for the way she has manipulated Soledad, she tells her to allow Soledad make her decisions. Alvaro in his house with Empetrix gets an anonymous call from a man saying he knows his secret and will destroy him. He rushes out, leaving a briefcase with money in it. Emperatrix steals the money and when Alvaro returns he searched for it and asks Isabela and Empetrix but Empetrix says it has to be Isabela’s nana that took the money and Alvaro believes her.
José Luis tells Isabela he really cares for her, that he is over Soledad, but later he tells her he won’t marry her until he can support her.
Kike tells Soledad about Carolina. Soledad and Lucia tells Alejandro about the gift of the house, Soledad wants to reject the gift because of the effect it will have on Kike. While in the living room, Alejandro kisses Soledad and tells her he’s not been able to forget her. Soledad refuses the offer of the house and lefts.
Rodrigo and Sandra seem to be living together. Soledad and Alejandro meet again and they kissed, and part again. They almost went to bed but Alejandro tells her it just isn’t possible for them.
Isabela’s nana was very hurt for Empetrix to have accused her of stealing, and she wanted to move out of the house for lack of trust in her by Alvaro, Isabela was angry with her godfather for accusing her nana unjustly and she told him to apologize to her. Alvaro later apologizes to Lupe for accusing her of stealing the money; she agrees to stay for Isabela’s sake.
Oscar takes a job offered him by Lucia as a bar-tender. Alejandro and Carolina, became lovers. Reinaldo begs his mother to love him. Rodrigo arranges a meeting with Alvaro and tells him about his past, how Isabel’s mother died in an accident in which he was driving drunk and how he covered it up. He said he will tell Isabela everything unless Alvaro ceases actions against him.

Episode 16. The many problems of Rodrigo

Alejandro doesn’t believe Rodrigo’s lies about Lucia being crazy before he married her. Gustavo threatens Reinaldo because of the loss of part of his merchandise. Alejandro tells Reinaldo that Soledad and Isabela are sisters; he tells Rodrigo too.
José Luis and Isabela become lovers, the only woman he loves doesn’t love him but found love again in Isabela, but Isabela is so domineering, always wants to have her way but Jose Luis doesn’t like this at all.
Rodrigo plans to kill Oscar and sends some people to do it but accidentally they killed Gertrudis his nurse.
Emperatrix goes to a hotel, but finds refuge in Alvaro’s home, Isabela and her nana doesn’t like the idea of Emperatrix living with them, but Alvaro is not bothered about them. Reinaldo tells Mercedes that Isabela and Soledad were responsible for the death of Gertrudis (but Getrudis told Mercedes before dying that the real victim was supposed to be Oscar). Mercedes confronts Soledad about Reinaldo’s allegation but she denies it, tells her that her father was an accomplice in the murder of her father but because Alejandro was there, she couldn’t name the other fellow. Mercedes confronts her father and Oscar tells her the whole story.
Rodrigo asks Garcia his lawyer to put all his properties in the name of Lucia who is the rightful owner so she won’t charge him with bigamy and Rodrigo is left with nothing. Sandra visits Rodrigo, offers him her support and he decides to move in with her. Rodrigo says goodbye to his staff and he left the house. Sandra tells Guillermo that whatever else Rodrigo has done, he raised a fine son, better than she could have done. Bernarda discovers that Romelia is the mother of Reinaldo.
Rodrigo tells Oscar to deny that he killed Aristides or he will suffer together with his family. Reinaldo talks with Gustavo’s boss, suggests that he would be a better employee.
Everybody learns the truth about Reinaldo and Romelia just as Reinaldo is about to kill José Luis his brother, having discovered him and Arturo snooping around. Romelia told Soledad the truth and they both went to Alejandro’s house to inform him. Romelia, Soledad and Alejandro arrived in time to prevent the murder between two brothers.
Both José Luís and Reinaldo were shocked to discover that they are brothers. Reinaldo ran away when he was told that Romelia is his mother, he couldn’t believe it, for all the wicked things he has done to her, he cried. Reinaldo finally ends up at Romelia’s door step, cries in her arms and begged for her forgivenes. José Luis returns home and sees them together, tells Reinaldo he will never accept him as a brother and tells his mother he will never forgive her for hiding the truth from him, Romelia pleads for his forgiveness, says she was afraid of Rodrigo and that was why she couldn’t tell him the truth.
Rodrigo is arrested for the murder of Ruiz but released when there was no concrete evidence against him. Then Lucía charges him with bigamy and he is arrested again. Arturo publishes an article in which he accuses the Arciniagas family of being involved in narcotics. The patients of Leo and Alejandro on discovering this cancel their appointments at the hospital because of several things written in the papers against the Arciniegas family and this really disturbs Alejandro, his reputation is at stake for been an Arciniegas.
Gustavo Guerra is told that he must take action to see that the story published in the paper about the Arciniegas goes nowhere because they will be linked if found out. Reinaldo visits Rodrigo in jail, demands to know why he told him his mother was dead and refuses to help him.
Alejandro and Guillermo discovered that Rodrigo is being charged with the murder of Aristides Ruiz as well as bigamy. They discover that the charge was made by Isabela Ruiz and her sister Mariana Ruiz. Alejandro visits Rodrigo; he lies to his children but Lucia later tells Alejandro that Rodrigo is guilty.
Sandra visits Rodrigo in jail and offers her support. She convinces Reinaldo to visit his father and he does; he promises to help his father. Alejandro asks Soledad why she didn’t tell him the truth; Isabela tells him it was part of their revenge. Alejandro asks Soledad what he or his brothers had done to deserve the revenge; Soledad just cries.
The lawyer Carlos Edwardo that was hired to handle the case between the Arciniegas and the Ruiz sisters has fallen in love with Soledad.
Emperatrix yells at Isabela’s nana and Isabela tells her to leave but Emperatrix complains to Alvaro and he assures her the she is his guest and may stay.

Episode 15. Alejandro & Guillermo found their mothers

Alejandro visits Daniela at home but he doesn’t want to have anything to do with her again, he was about leaving when Daniela threatens him with a gun. Alejandro doesn’t like Reinaldo’s associate, Guera. Alejandro warns Soledad to be careful of Daniela, asks her about the necklace and refuses to return it to her.
Guillermo visits Sandra and discovers that she is a call girl; she refuses to tell him more about his mother.
Alejandro shows the necklace to Rodrigo and Soledad explains that the necklace is as a sign of friendship, its part of her plan to help Rodrigo against Isabel. He swears that Isabel will pay for his financial losses.
Daniela in an attempt to make Alejandro pay for calling it quit with her kidnaps Kike from school but he escapes and she was later arrested.
Guillermo and Rosarita did some research by finding out the name given to him and he figures out that Sandra herself is truly his mother but when he confronts her she admits it and told him that she never had any maternal feelings for him, never missed him, that he was an obstacle to her career. She admits to Rodrigo that she turned up only because Emperatrix found her. Guillermo is both deeply hurt and oddly proud of her honesty but Guillermo is bent on making her change her mind about him and winning her love.

Rodrigo tells Sabas to kill Isabel; he shoots her in the back but José Luis is nearby and gets her to a hospital. Soledad realizes it must have been Rodrigo and swears never to see Alejandro again.
Arturo visits the jail and sees Brenda there, he advices her to turn in Reinaldo. Brenda tells Bernarda she will tell all if Reinaldo doesn’t get her out of jail and he finally did.
Reinaldo kidnaps Mercedes but she refuses to press charges when she was found with him, swears that she wasn’t kidnapped. Her father doesn’t understand her; she tells him she doesn’t understand herself.
For some reason, Soledad agrees to visit Daniela in her apartment and she was poisoned but the police and Alejandro arrived on time to save her.
Lucia escapes from the mental institution, the woman isn’t crazy, she runs to Romelia and she takes her in. Lucia, Romelia and Soledad talk and share secrets. Soledad agrees to hide Lucia in her house.
Alejandro decides to find the truth about the Ruiz’s sisters, he made his research and concludes that Isabel should be Mariana Ruiz and he visits her but she denies it.
Guillermo tries to offer his support to Sandra, he really wants to win her love and they finally start to become friends. Reinaldo gives Mercedes the chance to stay with her father or go with him and she, of course, decides to stay with Ray.
Lucia promises vengeance against Oscar for betraying her, calls Emperatrix on the phone and threatens her. Lucia begged Soledad to visits Rodrigo’s house to retrieve the document that proves she’s Alejandro’s mother and Soledad agreed. She visited the house and found the paper proving Lucia’s marriage and Lucia latter gave it to Alejandro. He realizes the truth has been kept away from him for so long, and he cried, he hated his father for deceiving him.
Rodrigo sees the reconciliation between Lucia and Alejandro and realizes that he knows the truth. Emperatrix is furious because this means she won’t get any inheritance. Alejandro is angry with Soledad for hiding Lucia and the truth from him.
Guillermo tells Sandra all about Rodrigo’s wife and lover and tells her he would like to see his mother married to his father so they could form a real family.

Episode 14. Daniela’s hatred for Soledad

Soledad at her house takes sleeping pills and slept off; Daniela enters her house with a screwdriver wanting to harm Soledad but met her sleeping, in anger she scattered all the things in her room but Rosarita returns right on time and she escapes without been noticed.
Lucia is committed to a mental institution and put into a straitjacket, Alejandro felt bad about this but there was nothing he could do. Emperatrix visits Sandra, the mother of Guillermo.
Arturo publishes an article calling the Arciniegas family names.
Leo invites Fanny, his secretary, out to lunch; they got to his apartment, made love. Then Reina appears and pretends to be hurt. (Later she tells her mother she is only worried that she will be with out a home when her mother goes off with Sabas.)
Bernarda visits Brenda in jail and begs her not to tell the police the truth about Reinaldo; Brenda says she wouldn’t hurt the man she loves.
Reinaldo tells Rodrigo that Soledad betrayed them; the business deal went sour. Rodrigo doesn’t believe him.
Sandra, visits Rodrigo and blackmails him: 5 million dollars for her to keep quiet or she tells Guillermo she is his mother, which Rodrigo doesn’t want. She visits the house again and she discusses with Guillermo, she tells him she knew his mother, a brilliant ballet dancer who lost her career because of an accident.
Daniela blackmails Emperatrix: she either gets Alejandro to visit her or she will tell Rodrigo about Sabas.
Romelia is determined to tell Alejandro the truth about Lucia but first José Luis forbids her and then Emperatrix gets her drunk, swears she has a plan to rescue Lucia. Soledad visits Alejandro in his hotel room, they made love then she recalls the oath she swore with Isabela and left, crying but she forgot her necklace, the other half of Isabela’s. José Luis tells Soledad about Lucia.

Episode 13. The Plan

Reinaldo gave somethings to Brenda to travel with but she didn’t check what those things were, at the airport she was arrested, and Reinaldo hires a lawyer for her but tells the lawyer to take his time, he wants her to spend sometime behind bars.
Rodrigo watches as Lucia and Emperatrix refuses to give him his pills but Bernarda arrives in time to help him. Rodrigo and Reinaldo talked about an accident happening to Emperatrix.
Daniela, drinking with Alejandro in a restaurant, gets very drunk, she saw Soledad with Isabel and José Luis walked in and she started talking, she was rude to Soledad and Alejandro didn’t like it and he took her home. Leonardo apologizes to Alejandro for thinking it was him that had an affair with his wife rather it was Reinaldo; the worst of it is that he still loves Reina.
Emperatrix tells Rodrigo that she knows he is a bigamist. Lucia tells Alejandro she is his mother but he doesn’t believe her; he thinks that her aunt is crazy again. Soledad makes Rosarita promise not to say anything to Guillermo her boyfriend, and she tells her the whole story about herself and Isabela.
Rodrigo tells Alejandro that he is afraid of Lucia, he said she tried to kill him, and that Emperatrix is interested only in his money but he thinks he is in love with her. Alejandro visits Soledad and they kiss but then she pushes him away.
Lucia tells Rodrigo she isn’t afraid of him because Alejandro will protect her, that she knows he killed Aristides. Alejandro tells Daniela he doesn’t want to see her again; she begs him to forgive her. After he left, she swears that Soledad will pay as have others.
Isabela’s nana notes that she is spending a lot of time with José Luis but she insists they are just friends. Emperatrix visits Alejandro’s apartment, finds the papers Lucia kept in the album and steals them. When Alejandro looks for them again in the album, he is convinced that his aunt really is crazy.
Rodrigo asks Soledad about her father; she lied to him that he left her mother when she was born and Rodrigo says he can’t stand men like that. Reinaldo arranges for Emperatrix to be killed but then Rodrigo changes his mind. Luckily, a guard and Sabas foil the attack. Rodrigo reaches an agreement with Emperatrix: she will get all the money she wants if she helps him put Lucia in an asylum.
Mercedes finds her father kissing Gertrudes and she’s upset about it. Leonardo tells Soledad that Alejandro did not have an affair with Reina but Soledad says it makes no difference since they are no longer together.
Oscar finds Mercedes with a bloody hand from grabbing roses in her effort to wipe the thought of Reinaldo out of her mind. Furious, he goes after Reinaldo and tried to kill him but his shot hits Sabas rather than Reinaldo and he was rushed to the hospital. Emperatrix visits Sabas in the hospital; Lola sees the two together and wanted to know what is going on Empetrix told her to mind her business.
Soledad tells Isabela she wants no part of the revenge but Isabela convinces her not to do anything rash. Daniela’s psychiatric sessions turn out to be with a phantom (she sits on a couch and talks to any empty desk). Her “ghost” recommends vengeance.
Rodrigo fakes an attempt on his life by Lucia and he tells Alejandro that Lucia wants to kill him and he believes him.
José Luis tells his mother that he and Isabela are just friends. Soledad went to visit Reinaldo in his office to discuss business; it was all a ploy by Isabela to make Rodrigo bankrupt.

Episode 12 – Ray’s wedding

Reinaldo and Mercedes got married and Brenda showed up to cause a scene but Rodrigo handled her. Alejandro tells Soledad he is going to find out what is between her and Isabela, he just couldn’t understand how sworn enemies could become close friends all of a sudden. Alejandro warns Emperatrix about her flirting with Sabas. Lucia discovers Emperatrix and Sabas together but kept it to herself.

Sabas find out that Alvaro is buying up stock belonging to Rodrigo and he tells him about it; Rodrigo has another attack, he keeps seeing the ghost of Aristides Ruiz.
Isabela faints; Soledad is afraid she is pregnant by Alejandro and can’t stand the idea. Soledad, requested by Reinaldo, visits Rodrigo in the hospital. Soledad indeed visits Rodrigo in the hospital and he was so happy not knowing what her intentions were, he tells her there is an enemy in his business and ask her to join him to fight the intruder, to get vengeance against Isabela, Soledad agrees, and she told Isabela and José Luis all her discussions with Rodrigo but she wants no part of any vengeance, they should handle it.
Leo also has told Isabela that he no longer wants to be part of her revenge. Reinaldo and Brenda become lovers again, she is her passion but Mercedes the love of his life; he tells Brenda that Mercedes his wife, is one thing and she is another.
Oscar is tired of pretending that he is still paralyzed. Alejandro warns Emperatrix that he won’t let her get all of Rodrigo’s money or put Lucia in an asylum; Emperatrix insists she had no plans of doing so. When Reinaldo, Reina and Alejandro visit Rodrigo, he criticizes Alejandro for his behavior.