Episode 20 – Rodrigo is kidnapped

Isabel isn’t feeling well. It turns out that she has a disease called Lupus and it will be difficult to have her baby.
Reinaldo and Julia, the daughter of the mafia kingpin Ochoa, become lovers which angers the father.
Rodrigo decided to formally marry Sandra who doesn’t know that she’s still married to Lucia. Lucia informed Alejandra about his father marriage to Sandra and he is against it, together with his mother he interrupted the wedding of Rodrigo and Sandra; they reminded him that he is still married to Lucia and cannot marry another woman.
Rodrigo is not happy with what Alejandro did and he told his father that he has to divorce his mother before he can remarry. Alejandro later talked with his mother to divorce his father officially, but she refused and told him that he wants Rodrigo to suffer as much as he has made her to suffer all this years.
Romelia tells Reinaldo about the papers that Carlos Alberto stole from his office and begs Soledad to have her fiancée stop his proceedings against Reinaldo. The doctor tells Isabela that she and the baby will be ok.
Ochoa and Guerrera kidnap Rodrigo. Isabel and Soledad and Carlos Alberto are accused of being responsible for the kidnapping. Reinaldo knew who kidnapped his father and together with Alejandro they went to the hideout of Guerra, but Rodrigo had already escaped before they got there and they found him in the bush and he was taken to the hospital. At the hospital, with Rodrigo’s sons around, he was happy for their support and love.

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.