Caray, Caray!

Malena (who turns out to be a seamstress) advised Mariana to tell Alvaro the truth about her daughter because Alvaro would find out sooner or later. Mariana said didn't dare risk upsetting Alvaro. "He gives me money every month. I need it to maintain my daughter."

Orlando asked Emilio if he was going to get engaged to Thelma. Emilio laughed and said no, "I think I am in love for the first time, and not exactly with Thelma." Orlando called Thelma and reported this conversation, but she scoffed that Emilio didn't mean it.

Alfonsina planted Soledad's bracelet in Jose's bed and pretended to find it while Hugo was there.

Hugo went to see Soledad and said Alvaro wanted her to accompany him, Sergio, and Adela to the hacienda. Soledad refused, saying she wanted to look for her daughter, so Hugo lied and said Alina was already at the hacienda with Alvaro.

Soledad worried about Alina, but Adela tried to reassure her, saying, "The boss loves the senorita Alina a lot."

Emilio phoned Alina and said he was thinking of her "every second, every minute, and every hour." He went to see Thelma, who welcomed him enthusiastically. Emilio said, "We need to talk very seriously. We can't continue. I'm in love and I'm going to begin a new relationship."

Thelma spluttered, asking how he could break up with her so easily, but Emilio refused to discuss it, saying, "If I've hurt you, I beg you, forgive me. It's better that I go."

After he left, Thelma told her aunt she didn't know who Emilio's new girlfriend was, "but I swear I'm going to find out. That damn woman is going to be sorry. And him too."

Emilio went home and told Angel (who was painting a landscape), "I am free, brother. Nothing will come between me and Alina."

The guys who were following Jose finally attacked him, took his money, and left him for dead. A man named Arcadio came along and helped him stagger away.

During Sofia's party, Alina received a call from Blanca, who said she and Elias were leaving tomorrow for Canada. She asked Alina to keep in touch and said, "Your godfather and I are always going to support you."

Alina went for a walk on the beach, mooning about Emilio. A man grabbed her and threw her to the ground, but Emilio suddenly appeared and rescued her. (That makes at least four people he's heroically punched since the show started.)

Luba (the witch) had a nightmare about a ghostly man telling her, "You killed my son. You are going to die." Luba woke up crying and prayed to the Virgin Mary, "You know I don't want to die. Help me."

The next day, Emilio bought a necklace for Alina and said he wanted to introduce her to his brother.

Alina returned to Blanca's house and found Alvaro waiting for her. She said, "What's going on, Papa?" and he said, "I dont want you to call me that. I am not your father." Stunned, Alina said, "My mother isn't capable of betraying you. This has to be a mistake."

Alvaro ordered Alina to come with him. She protested that she had made a promise to someone else (ie Emilio), but Alvaro exploded, "I'm not asking if you can or can't. I'm giving you an order!" He refused to let her make a phone call or collect her things.

Soledad reached the hacienda and realized Alina wasn't there. She exclaimed, "You deceived me! Where's my daughter?" Hugo said that he'd only followed Alvaro's orders.

Mariana went to see her daughter's doctor, who said, "I don't have good news. Marianita has leukemia." He said she needed a bone marrow transplant.

Arcadio asked Jose to go to Sierra Escondida (I didn't catch why, some sort of job, I think). Jose said he knew the place and there was a man there who wanted to kill him (Alvaro). Arcadio said, "Another?" I guess Jose agreed to go with him, because in the next scene they were on a bus together.

Emilio worried because he couldn't reach Alina by phone. He visited Sofia, who said, "This is strange. Alina never does this." He asked if Alina had other boyfriends, and Sofia said no, "She's never been in love till now. She's crazy for you, Emilio."

Alvaro, meanwhile, was telling Alina (unless I misunderstood), "I hate you and I reject you!" He locked her in a room for the night. Alina said to herself, "It's like a nightmare. Emilio!"

The next day, Alvaro took Alina to Luba's cave and told her, "You are going to live here! If you escape, your mother is going to pay the consequences!"

Luba dragged the sobbing Alina into the cave and said, "You're going to sleep here, and you're not going to bother me."

Emilio told Orlando Alina must not return his feelings, after all, because she had disappeared. Later he told Angel he would look for Alina at her parents' house.

Alvaro went to the hacienda, where Hugo gave him Soledad's bracelet, saying it had been found Jose's bed. Alvaro said, "Thank you. I have another proof of Soledad's deceit."

He asked Soledad, "What was this doing in Jose's room?" Soledad gave up trying to reason with him. She said, "It doesn't matter what you say or do to me, but Alina is another thing." Alvaro said she could see Alina tomorrow, "but if you rebel, you and she are going to be sorry."

Alina asked Luba to help her, but Luba said, "Do you want the boss to kill me?"

Alvaro took Soledad to Luba's cave. Alina and Soledad embraced, crying and babbling. Soledad looked at Alina's t-shirt and asked, "Why are you dressed this way?" Alvaro said, "This is how a Caporal's daughter dresses! You are living the way a Caporal's daughter lives." (Either Caporal is one of Jose's surnames or I'm missing something.) He shouted for Gaspar (Luba's simple-minded son), who dragged Alina back to the cave. Soledad slapped Alvaro and he knocked her to the ground.

Words from this episode:
esclava = a type of bracelet
averiguar = find out

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