Caray, Caray!

We starts with a repeat of Severiano’s advice to Juan: don’t allow anyone to hide stuff from you… Maybe that’s why Juan goes in control freak mode every time one of his brothers dares to take a dump without asking him – he has his guardian angel/ sainted father always whispering in his ear.

Rosa is outraged Jess would propose a family dinner and Adela isn’t more willing, either. I imagine a Cruz-Millan dinner has to be just as fun as a Del Monte get together, so I say bring it on. Bryan arrives with his “suegrita” cheers and Bertha encourages the dinner idea – let’s reunite the family! Rosa accepts, but beware, no prehistoric food in her house, and please shower first!

Prospi and Deb are still doing it, but after the fact he feels guilty. Deb is trying to maneuver him like she always does, but she has a point when she says that in his family nobody respects him like they should. Prospi wants her to live elsewhere, he’s also worried about her being a partner at the boutique. Deb half threatens to break up, Prospi says they need to learn to hide better. Deb actually calls him a coward, but she likes him just like that.

Juan is at work, but remembering his bio-mother during one of her “drinking parties”. He cries.

Rosa asks Bertha to pull out all the stops for the dinner they are preparing, but don’t set the table for more people than usual… she has a surprised planned. Alondra arrives to announce that she’s decided to start working, even if her mother disagrees. Rosa changes her mind when she finds out Alondra plans to work with Lucas. Maybe this daughter will land a Del Monte after all.

Sara and Pedro are having lunch in a restaurant, talking about Juan and how much she loves him. But his distrust is hard to take. Pedro grabs her hand, saying he’s sure someone tampered with the fertilizers. Not Julieta, she’s a very good professional. But he’ll be by Sara’s side, helping her no matter what. She wants to leave, but Pedro asks her to stick around, because he wants to spend more time with her. Why is that? Because he has feelings for her. Sara seems surprised, but her first reaction is to remember all the good moments she shared with Pedro, like the time she comforted him about Tadeo or when he held her hand when she was upset. She then reminds Pedro that she loves Juan, gets upset when Pedro mentions Juan’s lack of faith in her. He says that he’s not a monster, he never felt like this before, with her he forgets everything bad that ever happened to him. I actually believe that Pedro is sincere.

In the chapel, Modesto is praying for his son. He’s sad, feeling he failed Cornelio. And he feels bad for Pedro, too. God help me, he begs, while Severiano’s painting is looming (because apparently there is one copy of his portrait in every corner of the house).

Simon comes to talk to Paloma about his surprise. Salvador wants to throw him out, but Simon has come to ask for Paloma’s hand in marriage. Salvador reacts as bad as one can imagine, wants to kick Simon out even more. But Simon insists the past is in the past, he wants to start a new life with his daughter. Paloma is upset, too, calls Salvador selfish, but her father says that the Del Monte will ruin her just like they ruined her mother. Because she left in order to be far away from that family. Paloma is shocked to hear this, why did her father lie about her dying? Salvador says she is dead now, but Severiano made her want to leave her family, and now Simon is trying to destroy her. Simon says he won’t make the same mistakes, Paloma demands to know where her mother is buried, and she’s sick and tired of her father’s lies. She accepts the marriage proposal.

Deb and Prospi are walking in the street and she insists on holding his arm, just as Dante shows up. Deb plays the business partner card, but Dante wants to talk about Sara, so Prospi leaves them alone. Dante mocks Deb about hanging out with a village man, she reminds him he has no room to talk, since he’s married. They talk about the problems with the avocados and how Sara offered to pay the damage with her inheritance.

Juan is now home, drinking orange juice and waiting for lunch all alone – everyone else is away. He tells Modesto he has big problems at the company, the older man is sure Juan will be OK, Severino has had this type of issues before. Juan sees Modesto’s luggage, he won’t stop him from leaving, but let’s talk first. They go into the kitchen and Juan serves them something to eat. We find out that Modesto was the one to warn Severiano and Catalina about he and Pedro living such a miserable life as kids.

Juan would like Modesto to stick around to say goodbye to his brothers. He’s upset this is all because of Pedro. Modesto has to be loyal to Cornelio, this is bigger than his promise to Severiano. They hug and Modesto cries.

Now outside, Sara is still trying to convince Pedro she loves Juan. They run into Deb and Dante and Pedro leaves to get the car. Deb scolds her daughter, she and Dante try to convince Sara one of the brothers is trying to trick her into giving up her inheritance. Don’t sign anything before asking Dante! Sara remembers Pedro’s warning about someone tampering with the fertilizer and Dante adds that he knows that the Del Monte family are not to be toyed with.

Deb tries to ask what the deal with Pedro is, but Sara says they were talking business. Dante says he won’t be able to show that he’s on her side at work, but let him do the talking, OK? Then he leaves and Deb asks about Juan now, are they lovers as Julieta said? Sara denies any hanky panky, but she is in love with him. Deb is upset, but Sara asks her to come to the ranch at night, they need to talk alone… about Pedro.

Bryan is taking a bath in a plastic tub in the middle of the living room … they won’t have to do this every day, just until the water heater is fixed… as soon as they can afford the repair, of course. Jess doesn’t look happy, she won’t even wash his back at first. She reluctantly agrees, he’ll do the same for her later. Jess dreams about having their own place with a pool.

Later he tells Jess he wants to impress Rosa, but she sees him put on socks with holes in them. Adela and Augustin arrive from the market, they bought food they plan to prepare for the dinner, some frijoles and what not. Adela asks a terrified Jess to help prepare the food, Jess tries in vain to say there is no need to bring anything.

Julieta and Mateo are back from another one of their platonic meals together. Julieta wishes Mateo good luck with the meeting they are about to have with their business partners, Juan will need his support, she stresses. Pedro, Lucas and Simon arrive and ask Mateo to talk in private.

Julieta then goes to see Juan, who tells her Modesto is leaving. He fills her in about Tadeo, she comforts him, he’s not alone, he can always count on her. Sara arrives just in time to see them in close proximity (oh, the irony), Julieta mentions how important the meeting is going to be and Juan says there is no need for Sara to be present. Sara remembers Dante’s warning and insists she has to be there.

Pedro makes a speech in front of his brothers about how bad things are going ever since Juan took over. Everyone but Lucas agrees, Pedro adds that Sara is not to blame, Simon says they can’t fight with eachother. Pedro says that if Juan can’t deal with this problem, how will he handle future crisis? Maybe it’s time for a drastic decision? The four of them need to be united, protect the company. Lucas thinks everything will be OK if Sara pays the damage with her inheritance, but the other brothers say things are not that easy. Sara probably had something to do with the problems they are having and she was surely pushed by her mother, Simon adds.

Prospi arrives just in time for Rosa to complain about Alondra, who wants some independence. Prospi defends his daughter. Rosa tells them the Cruz family is coming to dinner. Time to teach them about class.

Julieta is still working on Juan, ever since Sara arrived he is fighting too much with his brothers. Juan doesn’t like what he’s hearing, but Juli insists. Juan looks over at Sara through the glass wall, which bothers Julieta – they lost so much money because of her, how can he be so smitten still? But she gets it, she’s very pretty, even Pedro finds her attractive. Sara has been checking them out this entire time, too.

At the bar Amado promises Cornelio he will start to behave from now on. Cornelio is sure Pedro set up the shooting and he was the target. Amado needs to help him take Tadeo far away. But the guy is afraid, that’s too much. Cornelio insists, even Senora Deborah is helping. Amado still says no, so Cornelio asks him to keep this to himself. Amado agrees and leaves. When Paloma asks what they were talking about, he evades her.

During the business reunion Juan says that they had a problem with the avocado picking, so they won’t be able to deliver the agreed upon merchandise. The business partner, Mr. Henry (?), gets mad, wants to annul the contract, says Juan’s clueless when it comes to business, a poor imitation of his father. Juan gets mad, too, it’s fine if they want to terminate their contract, but he won’t allow them to question his leader abilities. Simon says the person in charge of their problems will be punished, Pedro suggests they push the date of the merchandise delivery and Sara adds that if they agree they can be sure to have a quality product. The guy says he’s disappointed in the company, things used to be different with dead Severiano at the helm – if Juan is still in charge, there is no deal. Juan asks Dante to take care of it, then and Dante dutifully obliges, while Simon and especially Pedro are watching the whole thing with great interest.

Bryan has prepared for dinner with the in-laws, by wearing the same type of clothes he always wears. Brandon and Dulce are back together. Augie is happy Brandon is decent, unlike his father, who cheated on Adela with Rosa. Geez, Abuelo, talk about bad timing! Adela is mortified, but Brandon and Bryan are impactados, start asking questions. Adela tries to say that dad was a happy go lucky guy, a big flirt, but that was it. Augie insists it was more than that, the boys needed to know that Rosa is no saint.

Mr. Henry declares the contract null and void, what a shame you’re not the leader your father was, see you in court. The guy and his team leave, so Juan asks Pedro to take care of the legal aspects with Dante. Simon blames Sara for the whole thing, Mateo adds his two cents, Juan goes ballistic and says that Sara is willing to pay with her own money if this proves to be her mistake and so will he. Lucas asks what will happen if this wasn’t Sara’s fault, so Juan says the guilty party will pay, whoever it was. Sara says it wasn’t her mistake and Lucas believes her.

Dante says Sara can’t dispose of her money before their one year term is fulfilled, what they can do for now is use their emergency funds, and once Sara gets her inheritance, she can pay it back. This makes Pedro take notice, he encourages Sara saying everything will be alright. Sara is very upset Juan doesn’t trust her, he says this is business. She points out she did all kind of documentation to back up her recommendations. Then she leaves, closely followed by Pedro.

They go to her office and Pedro tells her to let the lawyers handle things. Sara is more upset about Juan than the money they are losing, Pedro adds fuel to the fire saying that Juan is all about the work, he should have given her the place she deserves as his girlfriend, not accuse her without any proof. Sara didn’t expect for Juan to behave like this, what if she was wrong about him? This already happened to her in the past with a man who didn’t love her. Pedro says Juan might not value her, but he definitely does. He hugs her and once again he seems sincere, but this is Pedro, so he is also always working an angle.

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