Refugio Para el Amor #52-53 Mon 7/2/12 Gala Learns What Mama Loves Best/Vicky Learns What Her Sugar Daddy Hates Most/Max Learns the Truth

Gala and Julie show Rosa the hot off the presses issue of her magazine with a cover story exposé on “hot clubs of the moment” featuring Luci in her devil girl costume. Rosa is sure Luci won’t admit it’s her in the photos, but Julie tells her not to worry about that. This is just one little piece of their big, well thought out plan.

Aldo meets with Inez, the Torreslanda computer tech. She seems willing to help him get into the account he wants to access on his computer, until he admits the account isn’t his.  He eventually begs and sweet talks her into doing it, but he’ll need to leave his laptop with her overnight and she’ll work on it when she has time. He reluctantly agrees to leave it with her.

Rod drives and plays with his ball. No, not his rocks. It’s the ball Ariche gave him, and he remembers the deal he made with Ariche (to take care of Luci).  He calls Luci to tell her how much he loves her, and Hannah and Melissa, who are listening in the background with Luci, tease them.  H&M want to keep shopping. Luci thinks they’ve already done enough shopping, but they take her into a shoe store. Later, Rod sneaks into the shoe shop and surprises Luci with a rose. They get kissy, H&M giggle, and Luci blushes.

At the school, Boris plans with some of his friends how they will all get to the lake house for the party, so that everyone doesn’t have to take a car. Some will go in his parents’ cars, some with him, etc. Lula comes over to gloat since she’s sure Hannah’s parents won’t let her go to the party without Lula. Too bad, so sad for you Lula. Boris rubs in her face that they already gave her permission to go, and not only that, they gave him permission to be Hannah’s boyfriend.

Pato is having a bit of a down moment and asks Mati if she thinks he will someday recover enough to find someone to marry, and to have his own family. All Mati can say, is that he’s always been a good boy/man, and any woman would be lucky to have him.

Rod strolls with Luci, H&M, and all the shopping bags. He asks if she found a wedding dress she likes. The girls jump in and talk about the one dress she tried on, in which she looked like a queen. Rod corrects them—like a princes, his princess. Luci says she’d prefer to find a more simple dress. He tells her not to leave it too long since the wedding is in two weeks. He then drops the bomb on her that he wants them to have dinner with his parents.

The Blonde B/Witches continue their meeting at Gala’s place. Gala wants Rosa to pretend like she’s cool with Rod and Luci’s relationship until they’re ready to give the final blow. Rosa says she can’t since she HATES that woman so much.

H&M and Rod try to convince Luci that the dinner with the parents is a good thing. She’ll win them over. Luci looks like she’s going to be sick. She knows Rosa won’t react well. She fears she’ll run her out of the house. Rod says if she does that, then he’ll leave with her. H&M says they’d leave with them too, and bring Connie and Aldo with them. And Pato and Mati too, Luci says. They joke about bringing Frigida along. Rod reassures Luci and kisses her hand.

Rosa calls Luci a social climber (trepadora), and a hypocrite.  (Oh, spare me! Pot, meet kettle.) Gala and Julie tell Rosa about Don Aquiles and how Luci ran out on not paying her dad’s debt to him (doesn’t seem to matter that payment would mean her marrying/sleeping with the old fart). He’ll give them what they need if they pay him. Rosa’s on board with paying him whatever it takes. Gala crows about all their evidence against Luci-- the magazine article and photos of her, Lastra, and Don Aquiles. (I don’t think any of this amounts to much, but whatever.)   Rosa gives some bullshit justification that the only thing they’re doing is telling the TRUTH. She then thought bubbles: “Luci herself will cause the separation between her and Rodrigo.  So I don’t need to tell the truth.”  Rosa asks Gala to take Rodrigo far from here after he dumps Luci.

Paz and Madga find Procopio skulking around Paz’s house with some other guy. His boss wants them to clean the house and help Paz move in. Paz and Magda run them off and inform Procopio that Paz will move back in when she darn well feels like it, and she doesn’t need Don A’s help, thank you very much. Magda thinks he’s just trying to get in good with Paz, so that she won’t have his butt thrown in jail. Ariche runs up to them, excited that his mama is going to buy him a new pair of sandals (huaraches) for Luci’s wedding. Don Aquiles interrupts this happy scene to bluster at them. He wants to know the wedding date. They tell him off, and he grabs Ariche by the lapels and lifts him up to his face to threaten the info out of him. Ariche’s not backing down. He’s a man!  (Ariche has the biggest set of rocks in this whole tn.) Magda makes him release Ariche, then stomps on one of his cowboy boot clad feet, leaving Aquiles hopping around and hollering in pain. Procopio watches the whole scene with delight. Magda and Ariche high five.

Rod takes Luci and all her bags home (to the vecinidad). He won’t let her help him carry the bags, but she can help him by taking his car keys out of his pants pocket. Heh, heh. Luci is embarrassed at first, but then she’s game and flirts right back as she gets the keys.

Rosa reveals to Gala and Julie that Rod and Luci will marry in two weeks. Julie thinks they need to get Aquiles to D.F. right away and pay him well for his expenses (gastos), since people don’t do anything for free. Rosa notes that Julie doesn’t either. Gala wonders how Max will react to their plot against Luci. Rosa says he will be the first to be in agreement with the separation of Rod and Luci. It will also suit him. With that cryptic comment, she leaves. Frigida calls Gala with stale info—the wedding is in two weeks. Frigida sure was slow to get that hot piece of gossip to the Blonde B/Witches.

Max comes to the office on the phone with Vicky. He demands that they meet up in their love nest that afternoon, doesn’t matter if she has a lot of work. Like a good little slave, Vicky does all she can to make sure she gets there. She begs her boss Nicole to let her go, even though they have a lot of customers that day. (Why Nicole hasn’t fired her already is a mystery.)

Julie is blown away by how easily Rosa gave up tons of cash to them. Gala thinks Julie is pushing it too far. Since she’s headed out, she asks Julie to give her the big check Rosa just wrote so that she can deposit it. Julie refuses. She’s going to be the “administrator” of this money. They’ll use part to pay for the photos and Aquiles, and the rest she’s keeping as her “commission.” Gala is annoyed by this and tells Julie that she should at least use that money to pay the loan she took out on the NYC apartment. “Did you really believe that story that I’d taken out a loan on my NYC apt.? How little you know me my love. I would never do that. The apartment is my only asset, and I care for it more than I do you.” (Yes people, she really just said that to her daughter.)  Pissed off Gala says she can see that, and leaves for work.  Julie blows her a kiss and says she loves her. Then she turns to her real love, the check, and says Rosa is the best business she’s come across in her life.

Padre Honesto has come to see his supervisor, the Bishop (last seen as Padre Severino in CME), about the news Rosa just gave him about Rod and Luci being siblings. He doesn’t know if it’s true, but if it is, he can’t marry Rod and Luci. But how does he find out if he’s bound by the secrets of the confessional? The Obispo tells him there’s a difference between someone giving a confession and someone taking you into their confidence and telling you something. He gives Padre Honesto leave to speak with Max to find out if it’s true.

Rosa, wearing an ice blue wrap dress, that matches her eyes and her icy personality, goes to see Max at the office. We all know where he is, but his secretary has the usual story that he left for a “meeting” and can’t be reached.

Meanwhile, he’s waiting at the love nest and is supremely annoyed at Vicky who runs in late. She had to finish with a client. Like a true daddy, her sugar daddy orders Vicky to sit down in the chair. He needs to talk to her. “You know very well that I don’t forgive lies and betrayal. Why didn’t you tell me about Aldo?”  Vicky looks like a poor little deer in the Mac truck headlights.

Luci’s back with the whole vecinidad gang in Estella’s apartment. They are amazed at all the shopping bags and all that Rod is paying for. Luci says it was Melissa and Hannah that pushed the shopping thing. Lorenzo’s ears perk up at Hannah’s name. You mean, that pretty girl that I met? They all tease him. Luci tells them about the beautiful wedding dresses, in particular the one she tried on and loved.  Now we find out why she didn’t buy it. She tells them that she looked at the price tag after she took it off and saw that it costs a fortune, even more than all the money they owed Don Aquiles! We see in her flashback that the dress costs 60,000 pesos ($4,500 US).  They all can’t believe it.

Rod talks to Pato from the office on the video phone. Rod tells him he and Luci will be having dinner with the parents soon to talk about the wedding. Pato tells him to prepare himself for rejection.  Rod says that if Rosa doesn’t accept Luci, then they’ll just pack up Pato’s stuff and move him into their apartment, because Rod won’t be setting foot in that house again. Pato tells him not to exaggerate. He just asks that he take care of Luci, love her and respect her, and above all, value her love.  That’s what he most desires. Rod makes the understatement of the year and notes that Pato cares (quiere) for Luci. Pato, with longing in his voice says, “I care for her (but he’s really saying it in the love sense) SO much.”  Rod is clueless. He gets off the video chat with Pato because their mother has come to see him. “Speaking of the king of Rome!” (Speak of the Devil.)

The Ice Queen enters Rod’s office and casually does a dust test on Rod’s things. One of the secretaries brings in the “fashionable clubs” edition of Gala’s magazine, especially sent by Gala for him. Rosa acts like she’s just seeing it for the first time. The note attached says Gala thought Rod would be interested and she hopes he likes it. Rosa makes some digs about the kind of women who work in these places. Rod takes a closer look at the picture of Luci and says he’s sure that’s the girl who they encountered when they went to Inferno. He remembers because she was so pretty. He stares at the picture a bit too long and Rosa closes it up and sends him to get her tea. When she’s alone with the magazine she scoffs and says: “And I felt guilty because I gave you away Luciana. But look where you ended up.” When Rod comes back, he tells Rosa news she already knows-- he and Luci will marry in two weeks. They are the two most important women in his life and nothing would make him happier than the two of them getting along. He knows he loves Luci as much as his dad loves her (Rosa). (Bad comparison dude.) The Ice Queen runs her hands along the cover page of the magazine and says nothing. Rod says they’re coming to eat at the house tomorrow.  It looks like she’s about to reveal something about Luci that she believes will make him change his mind, but they are interrupted by a call. It’s Padre Honesto who’s come to see Max. Rosa rushes out quick to intercept the Padre.

Vio thinks that Luci should just enjoy letting Rod spend all this money on her. Luci doesn’t agree. She doesn’t want Rod to think she’s taking advantage (aprovechar). Lorenzo agrees with her—their family doesn’t do that.  Vio suggests that they go affordable wedding dress shopping. Fabian and Lorenzo want to go too, to buy suits for the wedding, but Vio says they can rent them and she’ll show them where. Marianita also wants to buy her dress for the wedding, a pink one. They all head off for shopping, minus Estella.

Max demands answers from Vicky about Aldo. He accuses her of having given Aldo her phone number at the company party where they met. She denies it. Being that Jero is Aldo’s boss, she’s sure he got it easily somehow. “Your father told me that Aldo has come looking for you. And he doesn’t think that looks right.” He hopes Vicky isn’t letting Aldo see her. Vicky goes all sex kitten and tells Max of course she isn’t. Max seems to believe her for now. He gets up to leave, but warns her: “I love treachery, but I hate traitors.”  Vicky looks a bit scared but tries to cheer herself up by looking at the pretty bracelet he just gave her. (Run Vicky! Run!)

At the big house, architect Hector has finished the elevator for Pato. (Wow! We never even saw the workmen.) He has a special remote for Pato that attaches to his finger and allows him to open, close and summon the elevator with his hand that has mobility. Very cool! The elevator doors are designed the same as the wooden sliding doors throughout the rest of the house. Pato tells the architect about going to see the specialist in Boston and about becoming more hopeful every day. Frigida listens in through the door and says to herself that it’s all a waste of money, since he’s never going to get up from that wheelchair. Bitch.

Rosa tells the Padre that she’s going to speak to her husband and tell the truth, so no need for him to speak to Max. (Come on Padre! Don’t believe the crazy lady!) Padre is relieved. If it’s not true, then she will be separating two young people who love each other greatly. (Like she cares.)  She says she knows exactly what she’s doing and she’ll put an end to this situation. Everything will be different from now on. (Please note that although her voice is calm and rational in this scene, her crazy hands are working overtime. Look down Padre!) He thinks God has heard his prayers.

Lorenzo calls Aldo. Aldo says can’t go to Inferno that night, but is this close to breaking into the black four leaf clover account. He invites Lorenzo to come to Boris’s party with him. He tells him to bring his “brother” Fabian along too. The more the merrier!

The vecinidad gang has fun in the city center looking at all the tall buildings, eating street fruit, and shopping.

Magda and Paz look at the fabric they bought for their dresses. Ariche thinks they’ll look beautiful, but not as beautiful as his Luciana.

Rod calls the jeweler and orders the wedding bands.

Gala’s gal pals congratulate her on the cover article. Valentina (the blonde one) thinks Luci looks pretty and reminds Gala that Rod chose Luci. They shut her up as usual by encouraging her to eat something.

Looks like Magda really stomped on Don A’s foot good. His toe is all black and blue, and he’s crying like a baby as Procopio soaks his foot. He orders Procopio to go to his house and get him the boots that are a looser fit. Yes, he wants BOTH feet of the boots, dammit! Gala calls to set the date for his arrival. She tries to entice him by saying she’ll pay for all the costs. Don Aquiles is offended by the thought of a woman (vieja) paying for him. Gala tells him Luci and Rod are getting married in a few days, so it’s urgent. She then calls Julie and tells her Aquiles accepted, and Julie needs to go talk to Rosa, now.

Rosa has dropped Padre off at the Church. He tells her that when she speaks to her husband she really needs to listen. (Ha! Like that’s going to happen.) He hopes God helps her. She says she’ll need it.

Gala marches into Rod’s office. She’s happy he got the magazine and smugly asks if he recognizes the waitress. Rod looks at the cover photo hard and seems to be making some connection, but he just says it’s the young lady (señorita) who served them at Inferno. Gala bad mouths the waitress, and Rod asks why. She’s acting as if she knows her. She says she does. She interviewed the manager (Lastra) and he described perfectly the kind of woman who works there. But she’s not going to argue with Rod. She’s glad to see him. He looks good. Rod knows she’s up to something, but since he can’t figure it out, he just gives her a silent skeptical look and accepts her words of congratulations on his upcoming marriage. She leaves looking smug, but then nearly loses it right outside his door. She then cries in the elevator and says she loves him. Rod looks hard at the magazine cover of Luci once again.

Luci, Vio and Marianita find a wedding dress store they like and send off the boys to the suit rental place. Vio and Marianita try on matching hot pink dresses. Marianita also has fairy wings. Luci tries on an A-line wedding dress with a few sparkly accents.  She looks beautiful, but she’d look beautiful in anything. What she really loves about it is the price—10,050 pesos/$750 US. (Or it could be 1,050 pesos/$80 US. I saw this on a little computer screen and it went by quickly. Either way, a LOT less than the other dress). They meet up with the boys, but instead of suits, they’ve found two cute girls to spend the rest of the day with. The girls continue their day out, having fun in the city plaza.

Julie arrives at Casa Torreslanda before Rosa returns and orders her usual mimosa to be brought out to her on the lawn. Frigida takes the opportunity to continue her espionage with the Blonde B/Witches and relieves Mati of the duty of serving Julie. She also brings her designer bribe bag with her, using the silly excuse that it needs some air. LOL! What she really wants is for Julie to keep her promise of filling the bag up with pesos for all the info she’s been passing on. Neither she nor Julie realizes that Pato, who now has more freedom of mobility throughout the house and grounds due to the new elevator, has seen Julie pass a check to Frigida. Frigida says it’s not easy for her to pass the info on quickly because Mati is always watching her. Julie tells her that everything needs to work like clockwork and Frigida is a key piece. Pato surprises them both by wheeling up. He coldly asks how Julie is. He wastes no time in saying how strange it is that she just gave a check to Frigida. Frigida hightails it out of there.  Julie makes up some b.s. excuse about giving Frigida a check so that she can buy flowers for Rosa, since Frigida surely knows Rosa’s favorites.  Pato doesn’t believe a word of it, but Julie is saved by Rosa’s arrival.

Procopio has made the mistake of walking by Ariche with Don Aquiles’ comfy red boots. Ariche slips a lizard into one of the boots. The scamp! At Magda’s house, she and Paz are talking about Aquiles’ reasons for trying to make nice lately. Magda knows it’s just because he’s scared that Paz might throw him in jail, which has made his rocks shrink to pebbles. Paz isn’t actually sure she wants to move back into her house, without her Galdino and her kids. Magda asks her to stay with her permanently and they can keep each other company. Over at his office, Don A. is still being a baby about his toe. He gets a nice little surprise when a lizard tries to run up his leg as he puts on his comfy red boots. Poor Procopio gets the blame, and nearly gets the business end of the Don’s belt.

Julie reports that Aquiles is ready to come to D.F. when Rosa gives the signal. Rosa thinks the perfect time will be when Max takes Pato to Boston to see the specialist. No one in the family will be here to defend her. Right on cue, Max comes home and confirms that he and Pato are leaving in two days for Boston. That’s the day they will attack Luci, the B/Witches decide.

Don Aquiles meanwhile justifies taking revenge on Luci to himself. “You humiliated me.  I lay my fortune and properties at your feet. And the worst is that I lay my heart at your feet. And that’s what hurts me most.”  Procopio interrupts these musings, and he and Aquiles plan an evening of wine and food, because life goes on. Luchita is listening at the door and is excited that Don A has put so much thought into their night of amor. She runs off to get herself pretty—lots of perfume and a sparkly top.

Oscar calls Connie to invite her out. Upstairs in the big house, Pato is showing Hannah and Boris his cool elevator remote.  Max comes in and stares through Boris. “What did you say your name was again?” Poor Boris. Max and Pato plan the Boston trip. Pato is happy they’ll be back in time for the wedding and asks his dad for a big old hug. Max happily obliges.  Boris invites Pato to his party, but Pato wants to be able to go on his own when he does. Hannah gets all swoony about how beautiful Luci looked in the wedding dress she tried on. Boris puts his arm around Hannah and says that hopefully soon she’ll be trying on wedding dresses too. Hannah looks uncomfortable. Max clears his throat, looks Boris up and down and calls him muchachito (little boy). “Aren’t you going a little fast, *Boris*?” (Major eye roll from Max.) It’s not fast for Boris. He’s been in love with Hannah since the first day of grade/primary school.

The boys finally come home to Estella’s. Serena is fast asleep on the kitchen table, exhausted from her day job as a nurse and her night job at Inferno. The boys wake her up to get ready for work. Lorenzo speaks about being on the cusp of something big with Aldo.

Aldo meets with Inez the IT girl. She hasn’t gotten to his laptop yet, but she does have a decoding disc she was going to use later. Aldo sweet talks her again into letting him try with the decoding disc and takes his laptop back. He says she’s the kind of woman you can’t find these days. She’s an extinct species!

Vicky gets home and tells her dad about the hard day she had. She goes to start dinner, and he leaves for the bakery.  Vicky scolds herself and says she will be left like the dog with the two sandwiches (el perro con las dos tortas)—with neither her Osito, nor Aldo. She calls Aldo, but then hangs up quickly when her dad knocks on the door. He forgot his keys. She thinks better of calling Aldo. Max will kill them both if he found out, and her dad would die of shame.

Julie and Rosa have taken their plotting indoors. Rod calls Rosa to say he’s not coming by to see her that evening because he’s preparing dinner for Luci at his apartment. Rosa is so NOT down with that. It’s not proper for him to be alone in his apartment with that muchacha. Rod reminds her that that “girl” will be his wife and there’s nothing wrong with it. They will be coming for dinner at the big house tomorrow. Julie hears the whole conversation and then prepares to leave just as Oscar arrives to pick up Connie. Julie gets offended that he invited Connie out and not her. Sand has taken the place of Oscar’s rocks this evening, so he is shamed into asking Julie along too. She then invites Carola to some out with them! (Oh, Oscar! Really dude?) Ever the lady, Connie hides her true feelings about this arrangement pretty well and they head out. Rosa shakes her head at these strange modern dating games. Julie calls Gala and informs her about Rod and Luci’s dinner.

Luci is all alone at Vio’s cooking up something delicious. Rod arrives and convinces her, with some work, to come to his place for dinner instead. He wants her to get to know the apartment that will be THEIR home, and to chat about wedding plans. He gives his boy scout’s honor that he will bring her back home early.  Later at the apartment, Luci and Rod are finishing off a romantic candlelit dinner with kisses, when all of a sudden someone turns on the lights. It’s Gala! She says perdon, but sure as heck doesn’t mean it. Luci are Rod are both shocked and pissed. Rod asks what the heck she’s doing there.  She says she thought he wasn’t home and she was just coming to pick up her things. Luci’s had enough and picks up her purse to go. Rod stops her, puts his arm around her, and says that the one who’s going is Gala.

Rosa tells Max that Padre was looking to speak with him earlier about Luci and Rod. (Cue Max eye roll.) Rosa tells Max that the Padre wanted to speak to him about the wedding—a wedding that can’t happen. (Cue heavy sigh from Max.) Mati interrupts to give Rosa her medication. Rosa protests that the medicine makes her feel worse, but she takes it. (Oh, please let that be Prozac.) They continue their conversation alone. Max wants to know what fantasy Rosa made up for the Padre. “It’s reality. Yours and mine. Because of your bad actions, hate is coming after those we most love- our kids.” (Cue major stink eye from Max.)

Gala continues the innocent act. She’s sorry, but how was she to know they would be there? “This is MY apartment Gala.” Gala reminds him that he gave her a set of keys. Rod tells her if she needs to get her stuff, do it tomorrow when he’s not there. He’ll let security know to let her in tomorrow. He tells her to take her blonde ass out of his house and to leave the keys on the cabinet. Gala’s parting words are to Luci. Luci can rest easy. Gala only came to get what’s hers, not to steal what belongs to another woman. Hint, hint. Luci is so hot, she won’t even let Rod touch her. He promises it won’t happen again.

Max tells Rosa that the only one doing their kids harm is Rosa. Now, what the hell fantasy does she have in her head? Rosa tells him that Aurora’s child is not a fantasy. She’s just as real as the two of them.  Max is about to leave the room in disgust when Rosa’s next words stop him in his tracks. She tells him that the little girl isn’t dead. She’s Luciana. (Cara impactada de Max.)

In a karaoke restaurant, Julie and Carola are warbling as Oscar and Connie look on and laugh at them. Oscar proposes a toast to Connie. Julie and Carola drink to that, and it looks like they have drunk to many other things that evening. While those two order more drinks, Oscar and Connie have a private chat. He notices that she seems really worried about something. She admits she’s really worried about Rosa. Oscar tells her not to worry because Rosa loves to suffer. If she’s not suffering, then she doesn’t feel good. Julie jumps in and blames Rosa’s problems on Luci. Had she not come along, then Rod and Gala would have been married by now and pregnant already. Connie has a look of thank the Lord that didn’t happen on her face. Connie pokes fun at Julie about all the grandkids calling her grandma. Ah hell no, says Julie. She’s Julieta to everyone. Julie to close friends and family (and grandkids). Connie toasts to Abuela Julie and shares a laugh with Oscar.

The intense revelations continue at the big house. Max wants to know what the hell Rosa is talking about.  He can’t believe the baby never died as SHE led them all to believe. Now that she’s told the truth, she says her soul can finally be at peace. (I don’t think that’s the way it works, Rosa.) “Now you know why Rod and Luci can’t marry? They’re half siblings!” Max still can’t get over the fact that she has LIED to him all these years! “But now you know the truth.” She walks out of the room like that solves everything.  “It’s your turn Maximino. Let’s see what you do with this truth I’ve just given you.”

Upstairs, Aldo and Pato have the decoder disc in his laptop and begin trying to break the password code. They have it up on Pato’s big screen. All of a sudden Max walks into the room. Uh oh. Aldo nonchalantly walks over to and in front of the big screen so that Max can’t see the black four leaf clover. He and Pato exchange nervous looks. Luckily Max is too distracted by his recent conversation with Rosa to notice. Aldo’s cover is nearly blown when his phone rings and he refuses to move from his strategic spot in front of the screen to answer it. It’s Vicky, but he’s too late to catch her. Pato scolds Aldo for still going after Vicky, since Max won’t like it. Aldo points out that it’s she who called him.  They continue trying to break the code.

Gala calls Don Aquiles as soon as she gets home. Unfortunately, Procopio is the only one at the office. Gala leaves a message that the Don needs to come to D.F. right away. She’s making all the arrangements for him. Procopio then brings champagne to Aquiles at home.  He’s lounging on the couch in his purple satin robe and red boots. (Let that image sink into your brain.) Before Procopio opens the door to Luchita, Aquiles tells Copio to remember the “plan.”  Luchita is more than ready for her night of loving.

Rosa’s in the house chapel and tells God and the Virgin that now she has been relieved of her sin, and now no one can accuse her of the disgrace that’s befallen them. (Oh boy, is she delusional.) “Now I don’t owe you anything, Aurora. Now it’s Max, your lover, who has been charged with this truth.” Mati comes in and tells her she should be resting. Rosa tells her she’s told Max that Luci is the child he had with Aurora. Mati tells her she doesn’t know that this is the truth. They are only her suspicions based on her jealousy. Rosa is sure that now that Max knows the truth, he’ll want to send Luci far away. “And what about Claudio Linares? What’s to become of this poor man who thinks his daughter is dead?”  Rosa says to let him stay as he is—let him keep thinking Aurora was a saint and his daughter died with her. “God, our Father has illuminated me.”  She thinks God has given her the power to resolve the whole matter in the best way possible. (Crazy!!!!) “Thank you God. Thank you.” Mati looks on in horror.

At the apartment, Luci is still ticked off, and Rod is still apologizing. “This apartment is where you were going to live with Gala, the woman you were going to marry.” (I wouldn’t want to live there either. Plus, he and Gala did it in the bed too.) Rod has her look at him and tells her they were born to be together. “I love you so much Luciana, that it’s impossible for me to love you more. This is your house, and here we will live together.” She promises to live there at his side and they kiss.

As Pato sleeps, Aldo continues to try to break into the account. Finally the code is broken! But there’s another one right after. He gets to work trying to break that one too.

Max finds Rosa in the chapel. He has her swear there in front of God that everything she told him is true. She swears it. He then swears in front of God that he had nothing going with Aurora. Luci is not his child. "She’s the child of Aurora and Claudio Linares.” Rosa looks impactada, but does she believe him?