Caray, Caray!

Veronica tells Renata that the only reason she's arguing with a cute guy like Juan is that for once there's a guy who doesn't kneel at her feet and treat her like a queen. So they argue back and forth about this and Veroncia bets that Renata will not get him to bend for her and she takes the bet.

At the house Fernanda rehearses various ways of how she’ll present the news to Miranda that she is really her mother.

At the hacienda, Renata and Juan are still arguing with each other and both are feeling the attraction to one another.

Florencia and Tomasa are talking to each other in Florencia’s bedroom. Florencia is very depressed after having argued with her husband again about Miranda. She refused to have Fabricio even mention her name in the house anymore and accused him of not ever being able to forget her. He left after telling Florencia that she needs to grow up and realize this is not the case and they are all the same family. Miranda needs their support.
So she tells Tomasa afterward that she’s totally depressed and sick of her sister; if she cannot be happy then she won’t let Miranda be happy either. Tomasa tells Florencia not to blame her sister for all her marital problems. She and Fabricio have to work things out on their own. Miranda was the hurt one and she has done everything to support the two of them.

Miranda and Vicente are at the restaurant where they are waiting for the Bustamontes to show, but they apparently are being stood up. While waiting for them, Miranda tells Vicente her plan is to buy out Julio’s shares and she will be mortgaging the hacienda in order to manage this feat. Vicente is opposed saying her father would never permit it. She immediately puts him in his place by reminding him that she is now the president of the company not her dad and as such he owes his allegiance to her. He will not say a word of this to her father. Vicente says of course, i.e., he will obey the new company president’s orders. Miranda says then they’ve been stood up and she’s not waiting any longer for the Bustamontes and they leave the restaurant.

At the hacienda Raul is telling his brother that he wants help getting out of the gang. Juan says it isn’t his business anymore and since Raul got into the mess it is up to him to get out of it somehow. He then asks Juan if it is true that he killed Sanson’s brother. Juan says no, he was already dead, or mortally wounded when he got to him. Juan wasn’t even a part of that robbery and tells him that he had told Sanson ahead of time that he was not about to help them rob the place. Juan warned him and the others that the place had security guards dressed in civilian clothes. They shot at the gang and apparently Sanson’s brother was shot in the lung and bled out profusely internally as well as externally and there was nothing to be done for him. Raul promises his brother that he’s sworn off the gang. Raul says that he will try to turn the gang in to the police.

Alejandro tells Luciano that he’s got to meet with Fernanda and so Luciano will have to attend the dinner meeting with Cesar. So, that night at the restaurant Luciano introduces himself to Cesar who is accompanied by his subordinate, Luis Alberto. Luciano has been on the phone with Alejandro getting their description in order to recognize Cesar. Luciano again refuses to sell the reserved shares and tells Cesar he plans instead to buy the other investors’ shares. Cesar says they’d heard otherwise and Luciano covers by lying and saying they obviously misunderstood him at the meeting. He must have been unclear. He then asks Cesar if he really got hold of his money and stock legitimately and Cesar assures him he did. Then Luciano asks him what are his intentions and why is he so intent on buying the reserved stock. Cesar tells him that the stock has always been a part of the family business and he is a part of that group of families. Also, he is marrying Miranda and feels it would be a welcomed wedding gift to her.

While they are discussing this he tells Luciano that he’s putting up his ranch for sale and that it borders on the San Llorente hacienda so it is prime property. He invites Luciano to come see the place and get a feel for it because if he likes it he’ll be happy to sell it to him. Luciano asks would they go alone and Cesar looks over at some willing beauties at the bar and says they don’t need to go alone. Any female companion he wants Cesar will supply for him.

Once Luciano leaves Cesar figures he’s got an easy mark and tells Luis Alberto that he’s going to be easy. Women are Luciano’s weakness and he’ll use that to get the stock away from him. The Bustamontes show up. They’ve done what Cesar asked them to do by standing up Miranda that night. However, they make it clear they don’t like taking orders from an employee, i.e., Cesar, but he says oh yeah? He threatens them again and so they back off a bit. After Cesar leaves the table Luis Alberto is there alone and the brothers tell him he’s a fool to be Cesar’s lapdog because after all Cesar’s only an employee of theirs and as such may not always be there. Luis Alberto may want to cooperate with them and give them some information regarding their stock holdings or else.

Fernanda is praying using her fancy rosary she got from the cocoa pickers right before her marriage and leaves it on the end table when she hears the doorknock. Miranda enters Fernanda’s house and Fernanda is extremely nervous. She has Miranda sit while she gets her a glass of water and while she’s in the kitchen, Miranda seats herself on the couch and looks around and notices the familiar looking rosary on the endtable. She realizes that this is exactly like the one she received from the cocoa pickers at the hacienda. When Fernanda returns Miranda asks the older woman where and when she got those rosary beads. “At my wedding, the workers gave them to me.” Miranda then begins yelling at the poor woman that she is probably better known as Dr. Fernanda de Aragon, not Fernandez!! Fernanda cannot get a word in edgewise after that and then Alejandro comes to the house and tries to calm Miranda down by explaining. Miranda starts yelling at him when he answers her truthfully that yes, he knew all along; but it wasn’t to hide anything and only to protect her.

She races off in her Mercedez back to the mansion. Alejandro follows her. He tries to talk sense into her outside in the driveway but Miranda won’t have anything to do with him for keeping this from her. Bertha is considering going downstairs to enter into it all and stir the pot, but decides as she tells Lucas, it’s more fun to stand by the window and watch right now. Miranda races up to her room and Bertha follows her into her room. Miranda asks her the truth about her mother and what she did that night. Bertha tells her she murdered the man they both loved and kept Bertha from him. She betrayed them all and abandoned her daughters and her husband because despite all that she had there with Gonzalo it was too boring there for her.

Fernanda is inconsolable when Alejandro returns to her house that night. She asks him what will happen when Miranda realizes that Florencia is his half-sister and that he’s kept that little fact from her also. He says she’ll hate Fernanda with all her soul.
(This is a lot from memory, so if I left something out or misinterpreted something let me know.)

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