Caray, Caray!

Marisela and Genoveva stare at Cecilia and Antonio, and Marisela asks why they are so quiet. Who is in that state? Cecilia simply says: “It appears that it’s Bárbara Guaimaran." Marisela is stunned.

Arias tells Santos he needs to know the truth. Doña Bárbara is expecting a child.

DB is on her bed in a dreamy state, saying she will have a child with Santos’ eyes and intelligence and her character and will. The child is growing, and it’s something of Santos that no one can take away.

Santos tells Arias it’s a lie, that someone was paid to say this. Arias says this offends him, since he did the tests in his own office. Santos won’t accept it; he says she must have somehow fooled Arias.

Cecilia tells Marisela that she saw DB crying with joy in the church. Marisela mirrors Santos’ reaction, saying it must be a lie, a trick. She bursts into tears.

Santos tells Arias that, if DB is pregnant, it’s not his. Arias asks how long since they had relations; Santos replies 3 months. Arias tells him it’s exactly the duration of her pregnancy.

Pernalete changes his tune and his tone with Gonzalo. He tells him he has nothing to hide. Gonzalo tells him this was just to introduce himself; he’ll come officially tomorrow. Gonzalo invites Muijquita to have a drink; Pernalete wants to tag along, but Gonzalo tells him that it’s to be a drink with friends and turns his back.

Cecilia tells Marisela she has to face it. Marisela is now sobbing. She says he told her he broke up with DB before she returned from the capital. She insists Santos has never lied to her.

Santos tells Arias about the visit to the capital when they told her she would never conceive. Arias reminds him she did do fertility treatments, and sometimes they work slowly.

Cecilia still maintains it’s true since she saw her thanking the Virgin. Geno says maybe it’s not Santos’ baby.

Santos runs off, leaving the Altamira guys at one table and Arias at another. Antonio approaches Arias, who asks if he’s come to pick a fight with him. Antonio just says he wants to know if it’s true about DB. Arias says it is, that he told Santos, and that he ran away as if the devil were after him.

DB sends Juan Primito to see how Marisela is behaving. E gives her a dirty look, but she says she’s dying of curiosity.

Marisela is beside herself. She says she’ll die if Santos has lied to her. He swore to her that he never touched Barbara after they became lovers. She says she believed him, and if he lied, she doesn’t know what she’ll do.

Santos goes to see DB. She smirks: “How quickly the news gets around! You found out? Well then be happy, because you’re going to be a papa!”

Santos tells her it’s a lie and that it’s months since he had sex with her. She tells him the last time they were together she became pregnant. He tells her he’s fed up with lies and tricks. She tells him he feels guilty because he got up from her bed and went to her daughter’s. But here is our child to prove that our love was real, and that it was good. DB tells him he broke up with her as soon as he learned that Marisela had not gone with Gonzalo. He replies that he broke up with her when he found out who she really was.

Marisela is trying to cook, saying her tears are from onions, but she’s inconsolable. Both Genoveva and then Antonio try to comfort her.

DB is laughing that he would think she’s as stupid as Federica, getting pregnant by some other guy to trap him. She says: Let’s see, who could it be? One of the Mondragones? Balbino Paiba or Melquiades? She says it’s ridiculous and that he knows that she loved him and was only with him and that she still only loves him. She tries to move closer, but he pulls away. She says he hates her because she’s ruining his cochinada (filthy behavior) with her daughter. Santos replies that no one can ruin what he and Marisela have.

DB says we’ll see when she learns I’m expecting her little brother. She accuses him of wanting her to get rid of the child. He says he’s not in favor of abortion. She says, but you don’t want to have a child with me. Santos replies, of course not, you’re a frightful mother! DB says she’ll raise the child with or without him. He says if it’s true, he’ll assume responsibility. DB laughs and says, if it’s true? When the child is born we’ll have those tests they do in the city. Now leave, doctorcito. After he goes she says: Until forever, my love.

The married and engaged guys leave the drinking party and are accused of being varones domados (henpecked) by Gonzalo. Andrés tells him that he’s envious because he hasn’t gotten any of what dominated them!

Pernalete is trying to make nice with DB, asking for her help with Gonzalo. He says he knows he didn’t behave well with her before, but it was a difficult time. Now this commissioner is cortando rabos y orejas, pavoneandose y amenazandome (cutting off tails and ears, peacocking around and threatening me) in my office. He says the guy said he’s a friend of yours. He tells her its Gonzalo Zuloaga, and she bursts out laughing.

Gonzalo, of course, gets it out of Arias with a couple of shots about the pregnancy. G returns to his room, ruminating. He thinks that this time Santos really stepped in it and that he’s lost him as an ally.

Marisela is in the truck, still crying, asking her father to make it not true.

The Mondragones are lounging in the sala at El Miedo. Celeste asks Tigre to take her to town to the movies; she’s dying of boredom. Leon pipes up that she’s not going anywhere; he knows she’s flirting with Pajarote. Their mother makes a comment about what Eustaquia said about her cooking, and the boys are trying to hide their laughter. This is apparently the truth.

Marisela shows up at El Miedo. DB smiles at her and says, "Hijita, you found out!" Marisela asks if it’s true. DB replies: "Yes, and, of course you know who the papa is." (What ever happened to the vow to the Virgin to treat her daughter well in gratitude for the pregnancy?)

Marisela asks when she became pregnant. DB lies and says she doesn’t know. She isn’t regular and they made love a lot. (At this point I could strangle her with Melquiades’ beads!!!) DB says what does she want to hear? That he saw you and never came back to me. She says that’s not true. When will Marisela stop being so ingenuous? Men are naturally unfaithful. He was playing with us both. Marisela is devastated, tears rolling down her face. She tells DB she’s cruel and false and that everything she says is a lie. DB replies that one thing is true; the child in her stomach is the proof of the love she had with Santos. The baby is coming. You will see him every day – your little brother – and I’m going to call him Santos.

She goes on what seems like forever, poisoning her mind. She said she didn’t know for sure Santos was betraying her until she found out about the serenade. She said that’s when she lost her illusions. But they kept on making love. And when Santos told Marisela he had nothing to do with DB, it was a lie.

Marisela runs out. DB says to herself: “There you go, brokenhearted. An eye for an eye, daughter. I’m sorry it had to be me to do it, but that’s the way it is, better you than me.”

Marisela goes to the grave of Lorenzo. Juan Primito doesn’t run back to DB to tell her how Marisela is doing; instead he goes to tell Santos where she is. Santos is frantic with worry about her.

Eustaquia gives DB a sad look. DB looks a bit guilty, but says “Why this face, viejita?” Eustaquia replies that, if DB treats her first child this way, she doesn’t think she’ll be any better with the one that’s coming. DB looks a bit shocked.

Gonzalo arrives to speak with DB and congratulates her on her pregnancy. She tells him he got here just in time to triumph where he failed before.

Santos finds Marisela. She kisses him, tears still running down her cheeks, and looks him right in the eye, asking him to tell her that the child is not his.

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