Caray, Caray!

Capitulo 133.
Read Amanda’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Erasmo blames the neighbors for the dog noises, but then he finds Moty. Julieta refuses to get rid of the dog. He admits he’s afraid of dogs because a Chihuahua bit him when he was young.

2. Lety reads Tomás the letter and cries, “How could he not trust me, when I was unconditional with him from the beginning? How could he doubt my loyalty?” She realizes he did it so she’d doctor the balances and return his company.

3. Tom asks, “What are you going to do now?” She doesn’t know; she only wants to go far away and never return to Conceptos. Like the devil on her shoulder, Tom reminds her of Fernando’s errors. He gave her his company and then he distrusted her and treated her disgracefully. Now she owns Conceptos and she can bring Fernando to his knees. Lety considers the temptation but she recognizes that she’s in no condition to make big decisions today. He promises his complete support.

4. In his thinking chair, Fernando ponders how happy Lety makes him.

5. MamaJ urges Lety to tell her what’s wrong. She fears it’s another like the Miguel tragedy. Mama hears Lety crying through the door. She gives Lety Moty which helps, and she prays for ways to stand by Lety even if Lety won’t tell her problems.

6. Lety tells her diary, “I’m the pieces that were once a woman. Today I understand that my life is a cycle and the tragedy repeats, every time more cruel. It’s not worth the pain to go on living, because it will be the same story that has repeated since my birth.” She remembers the cruel treatment from her childhood.

7. Rather than taking revenge as Tom urged her, all she wants is to run away. But she knows she must face it because she’s at fault too, for getting involved with an engaged man. She goes to work in the morning, still not knowing what she’ll do. Alicia mocks her for being an old maid, and Lety says, “I’d rather be single for life than a failure at marriage, a failure at work, and a failure at life.

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Capitulo 134.
Read Julie’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Lety purges her office of Fernando’s gifts and cards while Carolina watches. Caro is disturbed that Lety has not talked to the man involved about all this. Lety says that to him, she’s nothing. Caro still thinks Lety should give him a chance to explain his side. Lety won’t hear of it, but she doesn’t surrender the trash bag to Juana.

2. She imagines that Fernando says the letter was a joke; it was a test to see if she goes through his papers. He says that he’s incapable of hurting her. She is distant when she snaps out of the fantasy, and Fernando hopes that the cause is nothing more than her worry that he won’t break the engagement.

3. Fernando doesn’t like Omar’s card so he tries to write his own. Again he gets frustrated that it’s so hard for him to be open with his feelings and say what he wants to say to Lety. He gives up and uses Omar’s card. When Fernando checks in on her, she gives him a backhand slap that sends him across the room.

4. Lety ponders Marcia’s wedding dress. She says, “I worried so much for you, but it turns out you’re going to marry him, and I’m the one to suffer.”

5. The repo lawyers come to tow away Alicia’s car while she tries to impress the Robalde exec’s with her class and status. Cute scene, Fernando lets Alicia continue her status game until she tries to order Lety around, when he tells Ali she’s gone too far. He stands to give Lety his chair at the head of the table, and he dismisses Alicia like a child, telling her to be a good girl and bring them refreshments.

6. Celso tries to discreetly tell Alicia the urgent news, but she refuses to lower herself to talk to a doorman privately, so he announces to everyone that her car is being repossessed. The lawyers had tried to work out an arrangement with her, but she was abusive with one and avoided the calls of the other. Saimon tries his best to defend her. As they haul away her car, Alicia falls to her lowest point. So far.

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