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Pedro, was yet to recover from the tauting and insult of Jenny, so he prevented Carlos from going to bring drunken L.F back from Alfredo's house. Carlos was furious and declared that he would cancel his marriage plans with L.F if she should sleep in Alfredo's house tonight.

Alfredo tried to convince L.F that there was nothing serious going on between him and Xochil and that it was she, that he still loves. He even lied that it was mere "master-servant" relationship that was between them. Xochil was very angry with Alfredo when she discovered that he contradicted her by lying again to L.F that there was nothing between them.

The next day when L.F got home, she was ashamed to face Pedro. So, Pedro approached her to tell her that he saw Jenny embracing and kissing Carlos in Marissa's house. This news threw L.F into another jealous rage. Pedro pleaded with L.F to let him accompany her to Don Fernando's house. L.F seek to meet with and insult Consuelo for all her cruelty towards her in the past.

Consuelo phoned to beg Pedro not to expose her before L.F and also before Don. Pedro told her that he is tired of cover ups. Consuelo really became afraid, she desperately sought out L.A and asked him to help her to she wanted to escape the impending shame and disgrace, by traveling out of the country. L.A demanded as payment for her request that she should appoint to act on her behalf, during her absence, as the President of the Iron and steel company.

Guillermo also came to warn Carlos to refuse to give audience to Jenny next time she comes to see him. The judge freed Carlos at the next hearing and L.A was not happy about the court's decision.

Don Fernando waited impatiently for the arrival of his granddaughter- Luisa Fernanda.

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Alarm don blow, the final whistle was stridently screaming the end of moral blackmail and deception by hypocritical Alfredo. He stood up and stammered an incoherent excuse and denial of what L.F saw with her koro koro eyes. L.F stormed out of his house. Xochil too, half naked, ran after her, begging for audience to explain what happened and when it began. L.F agreed and they both went to the nearby restaurant to talk.

Meanwhile, Carlos and Pedro were floundering in guilt for not disclosing the L.F-Fernando clue to her since they got to knew about it.

Consuela was in her last feeble dribbles. She made sure she was the first to break the news of discovery of Don's granddaughter. She pretended to be shocked and was as surprised as Don, that Luisito was the lost but found granddaughter! Don Fernando requested Rigo and Consuelo to take him straight away to meet L.F in Pedro's house. When they got there, the whole house was empty, there was nobody at home.

Jenny went to Carlos' house to thank him for saving her job by asking Guillermo not to substitute her for the advertising campaign. Now, because she saw Pedro around, she decided to play one of her old evil tricks by embracing Carlos and saying that she loved him. Pedro was confused by this action and challenged Carlos for allowing himself to be kissed by Jenny when he had just reconciled with L.F. Jenny insulted and denigrated Pedro publicly in the presence of Marissa.

Carlos took Jenny to the lobby and told her for the umpteenth time with a tone of finality, that she should never come to his house to look for him under any pretext again. He told her not to intervene again for ever in his matrimonial plans with L.F. Marissa accused and lambasted jenny for insulting her husband-to-be, Pedro.

Xochil confessed to L.F that she truly loved Alfredo. L.F felt the pain of betrayal. She and Xochil began to take the traditional alcoholic beverage, Tequila, to quench their respective pains. By the time they left the bar both were drunken to a pitiable state of stupor. They both staggered back to Alfredo's apartment. When Carlos became worried and was going to search for L.F in Alfredo's house, Alfredo called Pedro to tell him that L.F was in a bad drunken state and would sleep over at his house. Carlos was furious when he heard this.

L.A commissioned his hatchet man, Solórzano, afresh to cause incalculable injury to Pedro for the heavy beatings he received from Pedro the last time.