Caray, Caray!

⦁ Gustavo is still mooning over the picture of Chole's ultrasound.

⦁ The neighborhood has joined together to cook much of the food so that Natalia will be able to open her fonda the next day.  She and her mother and daughters also were able to scrounge around to prepare everything ordered by Don Julian.  Happy, happy!  Joy, joy!

⦁ Gustavo appears at Chole's shop with a bouquet in hand and begs for forgiveness for doubting her.  He informs her that Fernanda confirmed that the supposed doctor who told him years ago that he was sterile was a conman who was fired.  (--and I hope, prosecuted?)  Although Fer has recommended taking new tests he won't because he knows in his heart her baby has to be his.  Chole tells him to go pound sand.

⦁ Regina is feeling guilty for jumping to conclusions about Jose Jose's guilt and apologizes to Vicente.  They end up hugging and her telling Chente she wishes her father had been like him.

⦁ Speaking of JJ, Magos and Heliodoro visit JJ to advise him they sold the farm, et al to help pay for his attorney's fees.  He will be well-represented. 

⦁ There's a call from the hospital for Regi to rush over.  It's an "emergency!"  She arrives to see Lorenzo.  Surprise!!! He can walk again!  What a relief!  However, when Regi asks him to withdraw charges against JJ, Lorilocks refuses.  He swears he'll make that trailer trash pay for what he's done, always "pushing him and starting things first!"  (Ok.  So Viewerville knows what a lying sack o' Shinola this turkey is.  Oh, if only Regi knew!)  Regi gets angry and tells him he's a rotten person for not changing his mind.  She later whines to Mama about it.  

⦁ Nata agrees to help Chente find JJ a good lawyer.  They head off in the truck.  He tells her that he's thought twice about getting married to La Vulga de Olga with the news that Sinbad de Nestor believes her baby is his.  Chente continues discussing Simba's impassioned plea when he thought he was dying.  He cannot get that confession about the baby out of his head.   (They've made every argument for it but one: the guy thought he was dying.  You don't usually lie on your way to Judgement Day.)  He wants now to cancel the wedding to wait till the baby's born and see what the paternity test results are before doing anything rash that ties him down for a lifetime.  Chente takes a moment to passionately kiss Nata again to emphasize his desire to marry her and only her.

⦁ Tavo goes back home to his cage where cagey Constanza is waiting once again to harass him.  (Speaking of lawyers, I think Tavo has a great case for spousal abuse.)  She grabs the ultrasound picture away from him, curses Chole, and burns it because he's dared go to Fer and learn that the supposed doctor was a quack, somebody easily bought to lie.  He finally puts 2+2 together and gets 4! (Will miracles never cease?) It had to be his rich bitch wife who paid that quack to make him believe all these years that he was sterile while she bullied him into believing he was despicable and worthless. Why would she do that?  To intimidate him and make him her toady, he claims. She finally admits it. She lied all these years to avoid having an ugly child--just look at himself in the mirror; be careful when it cracks, though!  He walks out of the manse and doesn't look back.

⦁ In the meantime, La Vulga slips into the kitchen, those lips just dripping with honied, soft-spoken resignation of her helpless state in the face of overwhelming odds.  Magos is told the same lie about Sinbad raping her and her being threatened by him to keep quiet.  She then shows Magos her papers from the clinic showing she was only two weeks preggers at the time and insists the incident with Simba was a few weeks earlier.  So, her child is definitely Chente's.  It's her great-grandchild.  Please make certain that Chente marries her!  Do it for her baby, Magos's great-grandchild!

⦁ Once Chente and Nata return to her house, he asks for another chance once he's proven Sinbad is Vulga's baby daddy.  Her answer is yes, but now is not the time for them to consider this.  First, get JJ out of jail. FF>>FF>>

⦁ At the neighborhood cantina, Claudio is drunk as a skunk; he's buying all the rounds for guests this evening.

⦁ That evening Olga has an appointment with Adrian in a back alleyway of some park.  She surprises him when she walks up to him; he pulls a gun on her.  

 "--Are you really going to pull a gun on the mother of your baby?"  He tells her not to repeat such foolishness.  "--But it's true.  The blessing in my belly is your kid  He needs to get Nata out of Chente's life and out of the barrio toot sweet.  He lists all the things he's done that have failed.  Vulga threatens him that if Chente doesn't marry her within a week, she'll tell Nata that during the entire time he was trying to reconcile with her he was entertaining Olga in his bed.  Adrian is about to slap her silly when Veronica appears out of nowhere and tells him to stop.  He learns they are BFF's now, and that ain't all!

⦁ Back at Chole's shop, she and Kimberly are locking down the garage door and getting ready to go home.  Chole is starting to cross the street when Connie races towards her in her Mersnotties Benz and nearly runs her over.  Luckily, though, Juanga is there and grabs her, getting her out of the way in the nick of time.  Who was that?  Dunno!  The car raced off so fast nobody could even see the plates.

⦁ In the alleyway again, Vero and Vulga threaten also to tell all that Simba was Adi's hired hand in the past few months of burglaries, car thefts, and assaults.  He was also the mastermind behind Chente's parts store being robbed and Nata's house being burgled. He warns her not to threaten him. It was a joint plan of hers and his!  Vulga "doesn't recall"....oh but what fun--him plotting with Simba to have him shoot Adi in the shoulder so he would become a hero in Nata's eyes.  She leaves Adi in Vero's capable hands.  Vero, for her part, tells him how much all the daringly evil stuff he's done makes her horny.  She'll even forgive him for diddling that piece of barrio riffraff, Olga.  

⦁ Adrian grabs Vero's throat and tells her not to say a word about what was discussed here this evening.  Vero assures him she's no idiot.  She knows that Nata's hefty inheritance is in play.  She just wants her share of it, ok?  They can share both their rewards and bedtime together.  He accedes.  They begin lip-smacking and she suggests her place...

⦁ Back in Vulga's room, Chente is there when she arrives.  She lies, all sweetly that she went to pray at church about his blessing, the baby.  He tells her he doubts still and doesn't trust her; they are going to wait till after the baby is born before thinking of any wedding.  

⦁ The next day Regi comes to visit JJ.  They hug.  She apologizes for doubting him.

⦁ Vulga pays a visit to Nata's house.  She tells her the same lie she told Magos about Nestor, aka, Sinbad, being her rapist and having bullied her into silence all this time.  (Does anybody stop to think of how many lies...."Perdon, perdon!" --how many times Little Miss Sweetness and Light has changed her story???  Queue the crickets.) The tests show she got preggers after that occurred.   She's not there to ask Nata any favors.  (No, she's resigned herself to her fate and feebly says that baby is definitely Chente's.  However, she's going to move out of the picture (--and let Nata determine what comes next....)

⦁ That morning, Magos gives Chente hell for ever doubting Olga.  Olga showed her the test results and the child is hers!  He must do right by her great-grandchild!!  He must!!

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