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.
