Caray, Caray!

Capitulo 131.
Read Alma’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Lety reads Omar’s cards, cries, and calls out to God for help. Her next reaction is denial. It must be a mistake, or Omar’s joke. She wants to die to escape the pain, but she plasters on a blank face for the cuartel. She copies the letter and returns everything to the briefcase. The white rose dies for lack of water.

2. Fernando recognizes that news of the engagement ring will really hurt Lety, but she needs to know that he’s doing really badly too. When he calls her to his office, she keeps her nose in her notebook to avoid looking at him.

3. Lety tries to convince herself that it’s all a mistake, but she hears Fernando on the phone with Omar as he discovers the letter. He lectures Omar for leaving it out in the open, and that confirms Lety’s fear. She doesn’t hear him say to himself, “It has been beautiful to make love with her, be with her, with her smiles. Lety is an endless fiesta, she so delights my soul.” (Me, me, me!)

4. Carolina realizes that Lety’s falling apart (though Fernando doesn’t) and takes her to the bathroom, while MamaJ finds another injured stray (Moty) and takes him home.

5. Lety concludes that she deserves this because she betrayed Marcia. She tells Caro, “They killed me.” Alicia pries, and Lety lays into her. “I won’t entertain you with my personal life. You’re a vulture with your claws out, enjoying the deaths on the road. A vulture because you feed on others. I don’t know if you realize that your life is garbage.”

6. Caro insists on taking Lety home and Lety refuses, so Caro gives her an ultimatum. “If you don’t let me take you home, I tell Fernando.”

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Capitulo 132.
Read k-Fuego’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Lety compares Fernando’s behavior to the letter. He wants to give her a ride home but she says her father’s taking her. He makes plans to go out tomorrow; she doesn’t say anything. Lety wants to pack up her office and never come back, but Caro hustles her out.

2. Clarita is cleaning out her backpack, and Fernando sees the card with his name. He finds out the kids found the red bag and put the envelope in his briefcase.

3. See the transcript. Caro says Lety can’t quit without notice; she should tell Fernando. Lety just wants to shut herself in her room for days. Caro speculates that it’s personal and it involves Fernando. Lety denies it.

4. Tomás thinks Lety is crying because he teased her. He says, “Don’t cry. Take my job, take the company from me, but don’t cry.” Lety tells Tom what happened. See the transcript.

5. Julieta hides Moty because Erasmo doesn’t like dogs, but Moty keeps making noise.

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Spanish Lesson

Caro takes Lety home.
C: I’m not going to interfere or interrogate you. But if you’re thinking of quitting, that affects everyone.
L: I. Don’t. Want to. Return.
C: You can’t. Too much depends on you. It would be easier for Fern, Mar, or Omar to leave, but not you. You’re the last person to shirk you work. Conceptos depends on you.
L: Let them get someone else.
C: What did they do to you? I want to help you. I want to look for a solution for your problem.
L I just want to shut myself in my house for days.
C: Then do that, but Fernando deserves an explanation. What will happen when you don’t arrive tomorrow? What did Fern do to you?
L: Why do you say that?
C: Because if you leave, he would be the most likely suspect. I get the impression he has no idea what’s happening. Why don’t you tell him? Is the situation between you that bad? Did he offend you that much? This isn’t a work problem, is it? It’s something deeper.
L: (Turns away.) No, I was wrong. What’s happening is my fault. It has nothing to do with him.
C: Then should he pay the consequences?
L: (Crying.) I just want to disappear from the world for awhile.
C: Then ask for vacation or something. You can’t do it like this. Especially if he’s not guilty of anything. You say it’s personal. ¿It has nothing to do with work? Then why did you want to stay with me vs your friends?
L: No, it’s personal.
C: Then you can’t leave the company nor Fernando.
Lety to self. My parents. If they knew what happened to me. If they knew I failed them. That I threw away all the principles they taught me. For what? To be betrayed by the man that I love the most in all the world. Caro steps up.

Lety and Tomás. Condensed translation.
T: Don’t cry. Take my job, take the co from me, but don’t cry.
L: They killed me. I repeated the same story.
T: With whom?
L: With Fernando Mendiola. He used me. He made me fall in love with him so he wouldn’t lose the company. They thought you would influence me to take the whole company from them. One day he kissed me. I believed him.How could I imagine that Fernando was lower than Miguel?
T: But you were already in love with him. It was obvious.
L: You’re right. I fell in love, the first time I saw him. But it was with someone impossible. I was happy. Like being in love with a dream. I would’ve died happy like that. Marcia became a torture to me. The guilt never gave me a moment’s peace. I wanted to break up with him sooo many times, but he never accepted it. Of course not. He even swore that he would cancel his wedding for me. I just couldn’t break away from him. It was as if I was glued to him.
T: You were foolish, Lety. A man like him would never marry someone like you. Even if he was in love. Even if he’d lose the company otherwise. How could you not suspect?
L: He was so sincere. He made me feel loved. I was walking in the clouds. Until I woke up and it all turned into a nightmare. But do you know what? It was my own fault. I accepted a relationship with an engaged man. It was logical that I would end up losing.

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