Caray, Caray!

Well, the party had to end eventually. The word of the day: resaca (hangover).

Ale and Rafa both have visions of mariachis dancing in their heads while dreaming about the fiesta.

Ale jolts upright the next morning and asks, “What did I do?”

Rafa wakes far more peacefully and says “How wonderful.” Leonor darts into his room to see if he’s all right; it’s 8 A.M. and no one called to wake him for work. Rafa sits up and clutches his head. Leonor hurries off to fix breakfast.

Rafa calls Ale to make sure she’s all right since she didn’t call him as usual. Ale says her head feels like it’s going to explode; she hasn’t felt this awful since he drove her car over a cliff. (I guess the honeymoon’s over, huh?) Ale reminds Rafa today is the day they have to seal the deal on the trucks.

Ramiro calls Rafa to remind him about the whiskey he needs today. Rafa forgot and promises to bring them. Julieta overhears from the doorway and rushes off to call Jaime.

Ale gets ready to leave for work and spots the bouquet. She holds it and laughs when she thinks about how she got it.

Rosario is on the warpath and asks Ale what happened the night before. Ale says it was just a business meeting where she had a few drinks on an empty stomach; it was nothing important. Rosario is still upset since Ale never did anything like this before. She finds it downright scandalous for a nearly married woman to arrive home in a car with three men. “Think of poor Marco!”

Ale says she isn’t a teenager and doesn’t need a lecture. It’ll never happen again.

Jaime arrives and tells Julieta he couldn’t get the money but he’ll have it in 5 days. Rafa tries to grab a couple bottles of whiskey but Jaime and Julieta stall him for as long as possible.

Eventually, Rafa sees all the empty boxes and is impactado. Julieta comes clean: she took the bottles so she could sell them. Rafa is floored. “Sell them? Why? To who?”

Julieta cries that she wanted to help because she felt like dead weight around the house. Rafa does the math and surmises all the money Julieta made from her “job” was actually from selling his whiskey. Julieta fesses up and tells him that’s how she's been paying for the electricity, water, gas, and groceries.

Rafa is infuriated. Those bottles were worth almost 200,000 pesos. Leonor asks what all the shouting is about. Rafa orders Julieta to tell their madre about what’s going on.

The Siglo employees are all atwitter that it’s 8:30 and neither Ale nor Rafa has shown up for work. Marino says it’s a little fishy that Ale and Rafa disappeared together the day before and still haven’t returned. Ismael/El Bebé asks Marino what he’s insinuating. “Ale has a novio she loves and that’s the end of it.”

Everyone stands at attention when they see Ale arrive. She struggles to stay upright as she greets the employees.

Nelson should change careers and become a detective because he deduces that since Ale arrived so late she must have "had a night on the town” (tuvo jolgorio). Claudia is shocked. “With sex and everything?!” Nelson says no, not that, Ale’s eyes are too glassy. Ismael tells everybody to cut it out.

Susana teases Ale a little about the party and wants to know all the details. She’s never heard Ale sound so happy. Ale does not want to talk about it.

Jaime explains the situation to Leonor and Rafa: Julie trusted a guy who took all of the bottles and promised to pay in full for all of them later. When they came back, the guy’s business was closed and he’d disappeared.

Julie says the guy got away with more than 300,000 pesos. Rafa asks Jaime how he could have let such a thing happen but Julieta swears it’s all her fault. She begs Rafa to forgive her but he has to leave for work.

Ale sees Beltran in his office and he frets about their finances. He asks what happened to the business deal and is irritated that Rafa sell any trucks the night before. Since Rafa’s only sold 2 cars during the month, either he gets the deal done or he’s out of the job.

Rafa finally arrives at work and Ramiro asks about the whiskey. Rafa tells him it’s been stolen.

Rafa meets with Ale in her office. Ale says she handled things very poorly at the party and didn’t even manage to sell one truck. It was a big mistake to accept the drinks; she was foolish in front of the clients.

“But it was a party!” Rafa reasons. “But I’m your boss.” Ale counters. She asks Rafa to excuse her behavior. It was a business meeting they went to, not a party. Ale is embarrassed to have acted like a drunk.

Ale doesn’t want anyone to know what happened and asks Rafa to promise he won’t tell anybody. Rafa says nothing bad happened but Ale doesn’t want the employees to gossip; it could ruin their personal and professional reputations. Rafa agrees but says they have nothing to hide.

They change the topic to their business deal. Ale warns Rafa about Beltran’s misgivings. Rafa understands and mentions the party again. Ale tells him what happened the day before will never happen again. She would be grateful if he forgot it ever happened.

Rafa says forgetting would be impossible. He won’t tell anyone what happened but he’ll never forget that night. Rafa enjoyed himself and loved being with Ale. He saw a woman more amazing than he had never met before.

A clip of their duet replays and Rafa repeats that he’ll never forget it. He leaves and Ale gives one of her trademark smiles.

Marco fumes to Chavez about Ale coming home in a car decked out for a wedding, drunk, with Rafa. Rosario calls Marco and tells him he’s been neglecting Ale. She asks Marco why he never introduced Ale to Licenciado Urdiales. Marco promises he’ll ask Ale out that very night.

Marco hangs up and tells Chavez he’s going to have to do the impossible and set up a meeting with Licenciado Urdiales. Chavez chokes on his wine.

During a business meeting at the Siglo, Rafa and Marino end up in a shouting match that Ale has to put an end.

Humberto Urdiales, the president of an insurance firm, is apparently who Marco says he’s doing business with while he’s busy “doing business” elsewhere. Unfortunately, Marco has never actually met the guy. He’s going to have to get to know him so he can get in better standing with Ale and her family.

Chavez and Marco get around to talking about Rafa’s 140,000 peso payment that’s coming up soon. Chavez asks Marco what he’s going to do with Rafa’s house when he gets it and Marco say he’ll sell it.

Once again, Ale warns Rafa failure is not an option. Susana sees Ale grin as Rafa walks away.

Susana tries again to get more information out of Ale about the party. Ale would rather just forget about it. Susana tells Ale not to regret it; she was happy. Ale says she’ll be plenty happy when she marries Marco. Susana points out to Ale she said she will be happy, not that she is happy.

Random Scene of the Episode: A cowboy wanders into the beauty salon and all the employees drool over him. Ovidia slinks around and promises to take good care of him. The cowboy wants her to makeover his eyelashes because he has a very important meeting with his amigos. Ovi pulls out the mascara and hops to it.

Susana says Rafa is a great guy and tries to get Ale to admit it. Of course, Ale won’t, so Susana asks if anything else happened between her and Rafa worth talking about. Ale’s answer is interrupted by a call from Marco who wants to go out with her later that night. Ale appreciates it but says she's having a rough day at work and is going to end up going to bed early.

Rafa meets with Don Aurelio. Rafa is obviously tense so Aurelio orders tequila to loosen them up.

Marco tells Chavez he thinks Ale is defending Rafa for some reason. Chavez says, God willing, Rafa won’t make his payment so Marco gets his house. Chavez checked it out and is sure they could get a couple million pesos for it. That plus the couple million Marco is going to get for marrying Ale makes for a sweet living. The cherry on top for Marco is that Rafa will be thrown back in jail.

Marco calls Leonor and gives her a nasty message. “The house isn’t going to be yours much longer. Tomorrow morning, I’m going to start the eviction process. I have the courtesy to warn you ahead of time so you can look for a place to go.”

Avances: Rafa does business with Aurelio while Ale waits anxiously at the Siglo.

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