Caray, Caray!

• Abigail gives Diego another go at the marriage go-round; they and Renata agree amongst themselves to keep it secret for a while.

• Macaria threatens Renata to keep Abi by her side (and to fill her mind with gawd knows what trash about Ren) instead of leaving the rancho.  Her only goal is to now needle Ren at every turn.  Ren reminds her that she’s the servant; she’s to stop dissin’ her, and to start addressing her with “usted.” Mac needles her as only Mac can with “ustedito’s”.  Grrrr!



• The loathsome Lucio threatens miracle-managing Mateo at gunpoint wanting an answer as to whether Mad Max has survived.

• Porfirio got a phone call telling him that Max’s parents died in a helicopter accident and he wants Max to return home for his step-father and mother’s funeral. Daniela, whose week “on” it is, tells him with tears in her eyes that Max cannot because he was nearly killed in a “shooting incident” with his real father and is in intensive care.

• Back at the hospital, Mat tells Lucio that Max survived but that neither of them can leave the hospital till they talk to the authorities and report the shooting incident.   The two eventually report it was a shooting accident while Max was being taught how to shoot.

• Mat tells Lucio and Feisty also that blood tests came back revealing that Max is in the first stages of leukemia.  With treatment there’s a good chance he’ll survive the threat.

• Lucio calls the Zarazua’s and tells Xi-ela of Max’s new predicament.  Xi-ella flies in to see Max and to speak with Lucio.  He’s a bad influence on the kid, she explains.  Porferio can give him all the luxuries and open all the doors for the kid that he never could, she reasons.  And, in Mexico City Max will get the finest treatments and doctors money can buy.  Lucio’s only got to agree to never see his son again.    This convinces Lucio that this is his son’s best chance for survival and a decent and happy life.

• Xi-ela and Lucio agree to give Max his bad news in stages.  Lucio goes in and says his good-byes to his son, warning him away from him and his loser lifestyle.  His words of wisdom to his son: he’s got to stop acting like a spoiled brat, trying to buy things and people at a whim and/or trying to destroy the same (like attempting to murder Feisty) whenever things don’t go his way.  Lucio enlightens El Manipulator de Max-mini-me further that the only reason he turned into a paid killer was his need to survive somehow. That’s why when he started killing at 15 or 16 years of age for Fausto, his patron, he’d lost his salvation and his freedom.  That’s why they go back and forth with each other all the time.  “--Go back to the Zarazua’s (and hasta nunca, kiddo) and to the good life!”

• Lucio then returns to the waiting area and informs Xi-ela that he’s done saying good-bye.  Xi-ela informs him that she’s taking him early the next morning back to the D.F.  “—Hasta nunca, Lucio.”  He tips his hat and slinks away.

• Dr. Pat visits Renata and tells her Mat’s got twins on the way.  Diana simply snits past and waits for Fausto.  Fausto’s affectionate manner with Ren upon his return to the happy homestead makes Patricio jealous.  Ren explains she’s finally got peace in the household is all; she’s hoping this will soften him into eventually allowing a separation.  Pats should try smoothing things over with Ximena.  He explains how he tried but that Ximena simply rubbed his face in it again and reminded him he’s a murderer.   (At least I think this scene happened in last night’s episodio.)

• Upstairs, Di is waiting to talk to Feisty about the extra burden of supporting not one but two of his issue!  “—I want a house in the city….”  “--So you’re trying to take advantage of me from this?  Why didn’t you use some precautions?” She says she had, or some such, but what is done is done.  She attempts then—very successfully—to seduce him.  La Diosa de Diana’s will be done…..

• Fausto finds Abigail at the rancho and asks her out to celebrate his winning the elections by going to dinner with him in Ciudad de Valle.  She accepts and they have a great time.  He mentions to her that it’s time she also becomes la dueña of Rancho de los Angeles, as is her right.

• Back at Ren’s, Di comes down to gritch at Ren and Mat at the late hour it is, that Feisty took Abi to dinner and how they still haven’t returned!  Mat is pricked with jealousy.

• Mat is waiting in the driveway, behind the hedges when Feisty and Abi do return.  He sees her kiss him on the cheek and give him a hug.  His jealousy rares and once Feisty goes inside, he grabs Abi on her walk back over to Mac’s house where she’s agreed--per Mac’s secretive request--to spend the night and protect her from boogieman Lucio’s drunken late-night rages.

• Mat lunges out at her.  “—What’s this change in attitude with my uncle, huh?  First you cannot stand the sight of him and now you hug and kiss him?”  Abi immediately gets angry: as if he was so freakin’ innocent???  There’s nothing between him and Diana any longer, he yells back at her!  Right!!!!  Well, she tells him, she’s single and free to do what she like with whomever—including kissing older men on the cheek--unlike him who married, kissed, slept with--and engendered TWINS by--Diana!

• Abi forces Mateo to let her go.  He decides to take a swim in the pool to cool off.  Uncle Feisty comes out to ask about his late-night swim.  Mat goes off on Feisty for taking Abi alone to CdV and then canoodling with her when they got back home.  Feisty denies anything untoward.  It was only a celebration dinner for his winning the election.

• Feisty eventually goes upstairs to bed and thinks it’s Renata lying in his bed.  The woman is covered up in sheets and her features hidden by the dark and the sheets. He leans over.  “—How long I’ve waited for this moment!”  Surpri-i-ize, Sucker!!!!!!  It’s really Macaria. WTF???  She gives him an impish grin and teases him.  "--Hi ya, Fausto!  Not exactly whom you were expecting, right?"

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