Caray, Caray!

* From yesterday: while Arriaga and Christina are having una noche MUY CALIENTE, Victoria is working on The Painting, aka her very own Boris Vallejo ripoff.

* The exhausted couple is resting in bed, whispering sweet things to each other: I love you, I love you too, you’re the love of my life. Christina is worried for her husband since he has a very dangerous job and she would die if anything happened to him. And she would also die of jealousy if he was with another woman. *She really knows how to ruin the moment, doesn’t she.* Angel promises her that will never happen. Never, ever. *Famous last words, eh?*

* It seems Victoria finished the painting and she must be still under the influence of the artistic experience because she can’t thinking about José Ángel’s eyes: his gaze is so intense… wild… gentle… *Viewerville: not that we don’t agree with you, Vicky, but you’re taking the word “fangirling” to a whole new level*


* Houston, we have a problem: Nelson is in Kendra’s flat trying to do the usual stuff that they do every time they meet, but tonight his little Casanova isn’t in the mood. Someone must be ridden with guilt, it seems. He’s devastated since it has never happened to him before and no matter how matter how much Barbie tries to convince him to spend the night in her flat, he’s determined to go home. Kendra is upset at the new turn of events.

* Victoria calls Arriaga and of course it’s Christina who picks up the phone. She doesn’t understand why the boss calls her husband on his free night off. Viewerville doesn’t get it either because all she wants to tell him that he can spend the night with his family and they will meet next day. And he doesn’t need to apologize for Chrissie’s comment, it was understandable, especially since she only sees him once a week. Good night, José Ángel. After they put down the phone, the surprised Angel sits down on the bed: she called me José Ángel? She never does that! It’s always Arriaga: Arriaga do this, Arriaga do that, Arriaga go up, Arriaga go down, go left, go right. José Ángel… He starts laughing, and YES, now we have a proof that Yanez’s teeth shine in the dark. At the Balvanera’s Vicky is doing a figurative headdesk: oh no, she shouldn’t have called him, it was a stupid thing to do, and now she hopes she didn’t cause him another trouble with his wife.


*Well, Vicky… you did. Christina has a jealous outburst, she’s sure la señora only called him to ruin their evening. José Ángel tries cutting the conversation short by checking Liliana but Dios mío, her bedroom and bathroom are empty. This is the moment when the hell breaks loose because Arriaga is certain that the thugs who’d kidnapped Nikki came for his daughter and took her out of revenge. Christina reminds him of that working for that old rich woman is a dangerous business. She told him so! And this is the very moment when Liliana enters the room, it turns out she was just jogging around the block. José Ángel first hugs the very surpsised girl tightly, and then he shouts her head off: it was a dangerous thing to do, we aren’t in Santa Rita anymore, dammit!

* Nikki dreams about her rescue and she revives the moment when she thought Francisco was killed. She wakes up and smiles: “Guzmáncito, you risked your life for me!” Her smile is adorable, you have to give her that. In the meantime the aforementioned bodyguard is taking a stroll in the garden (for God’s sake, guys, it must be midnight!) and he’s thinking about Nikki who called him a superhero. He also flashes a wide smile.


* Adriana sorts old (ridiculously badly photoshopped) photos of her family. She’s looking forward to meet with her niece and her sister, but she decides not to tell Victoria that her daughter is alive because she doesn’t want to ruin the good relationship she has with their father. Now she’s looking at her parents’ wedding portrait (oh God, that pretty photo of El Rochon must’ve been taken in the 19th century) and she’s wondering why her mother married Aníbal, the man who destroyed Adriana’s whole life. She hates him, she hates him, she hates him! She tears the photo into half.


* José Ángel tells Liliana how worried he was for her, the thought of her being in the hands of those ruthless gangsters was unbearable. Please promise the next time she leaves the house she’ll call her mother. Okay dad, but I she always calls her. The do it more! All right, dad. Liliana goes back to her bedroom and her parents start to talk again how dangerous Arriaga’s job is. José Ángel tells Christina that she doesn’t need to worry because Guzmán, Zambrano and Salsero have his back. Francisco is a great and brave guy who saved his ass that night.

* In the meantime Victoria channels her inner Stephenie Meyer Jr. while she’s working on her fanfiction, I mean, book.

* At Kendra’s the other bickering old couple, aka Salsero and Barbie have a fight over their failed kidnapping plan. Viewerville laughs at the losers who were fooled by their accomplice and now all they have is a few dozen dollars. And to top it all, Dances with Sunglasses is still muy jealous at Kendra and she’s still a crazy she wolf so now Viewerville is graced with another violent but somehow hot sex scene.

* The prodigal son is at home in his bedroom, telling Victoria that he knows he made some mistakes and now he wants to start everything again.

* Nikki finds Frankie by the swimming pool where she pulls her most normal attitude and thanks him for saving her life. At first he thinks this is one of her mean jokes but she goes on and tells him when she was kidnapped she was thinking about him all the time. Well, this melts Guzmáncito’s heart and he admits he was thinking about her, too. Nikki says in those moments she felt he was really close… and now she wants him to feel the same, to feel her closeness. They draw closer and closer to each other, enchanted by each other’s company… and yep, they have their first kiss.


* At first Victoria isn’t impressed by Nelson’s suddenly awoken tenderness towards her, but he tells her that the mortal danger she and Nikki were exposed to made him realize how brave she is and how much he loves her. He doesn’t know what he would do if he lost Vic and Nikki. Victoria is convinced, and at last Nelson is eager to fulfill his duty in the bedroom.


*Guzmán jumps up and apologizes for his inappropriate behavior. *Viewerville: come on boy, you’re in the Hacienda Balvanera where Angel and Vic (who are brother-in-law and sister-in-law, by the way) have hots for each other, Salsero lets his ex-hooker girlfriend to sleep with his boss to get rich, Tomasina fantasizes about Arriaga, Polita and Jean Marie fantasize about you, and don’t forget the grandpa who’s been sleeping with your mother for twenty years. A board saying “House of Inappropriateness” should’ve been hung over the entrance door years ago.* He says it was wrong and he shouldn’t get involved with the people he works for. And of course he only saved her because it was his job, it wasn’t personal. Okay, we get that he just wants to protect his heart and your job, but Nikki, who has just bared her soul to him is really hurt and tells him she found his kiss disgusting. Frankie pulls her closer: so you felt disgusted? Yes, just as she imagined. Then it won’t happen again, says the man. Nikki runs back to her room.

 * Before going back to bed, Liliana asks José Ángel to say hello to Francisco. Well, daddy doesn’t really like this infatuation towards Blondie and tells Christina that Lili is too young for falling in love. She should concentrate on her studies instead of a boyfriend. And somehow this conversation turns into another fight over Victoria… again. Because José Ángel’s always criticizing Christina *Viewerville and Arriaga: WTF?*, as if Liliana’s infatuation was her fault, but he never stands up against that crone! Yes, that old woman, that Victoria Balvanera! José Ángel looks more like a lap-dog since he met her than that real man she fell in love with! Arriaga doesn’t want to fight so he decides to leave the flat, which makes Christina even more angrier: so now you’re running back to her, aren’t you?!


* Frankie realizes that rejecting Nikki was the worst insult he could give her… But he didn’t have a choice, he had to end it for good. While he’s sitting in the patio and looking very sad (and cuddly, if I may add), Oookay is crying in her room and she is eating a whole box of icecream.


* At the Balvaneras’ the depressed aikido master meets Tomasina who’s very surprised to see him there. Wasn’t he supposed to spend the night with his family? No, he just went to say hello to Christina and Liliana. Tomasina finds his work ethic fantastic: José Ángel is a responsible man who takes his job very seriously. And is Ms. Victoria all right? Yes, she’s is in the bedroom.

* Christina wakes up from a nightmare: oh heaven, is José Ángel is with HER? What if she’s just imagining things that don’t exist?

* Arriaga is about to knock on Victoria’s door when he hears her satisfied voice: oh mi amor, it was so good to be with you again! He was so cold towards her in the last weeks, she even thought he was interested in another woman. Angel looks like he has a very hard time with biting his tongue. Nelson tells wifey he would never ever betray her. Angel looks like he’s about to beat his own head into the wall. Or Nelson’s. Great, says Victoria, because she isn’t that kind of woman who would forgive infidelity. Her last words cheer José Ángel up and he victoriously boxes into the air. But Jesus, his phone starts to ring which drives Victoria out of the room. In the hallway he find Arriaga who tries act casual. What are you doing here, Arriaga?! Nada, nada, he was just checking that everything was order. Oh, that deep bedroom voice. He’s embarrassed, she’s puzzled, and they again stand too close to each other. She goes back to Nelson where she starts gushing about how much this night meant to her. It was great to be together again because most of the time he just gets in bed without looking at her and he falls asleep instantly. But Nelson stopped listening to her after the second word and now he’s sleeping like a baby. Victoria looks at her wonderful husband and she states very dryly and sardonically that she knew so much happiness couldn’t be true.

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