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.
