Enrico tells Alba he is Joaquin’s father with Sita listening to their conversatio, he says if Alba doesn’t pay him in full he won’t hesitate to tell Ramon the truth, Alba tells him to go ahead and that he should use his head for once because if Ramon ever finds out Joaquin isn’t his real son then he won’t be able to milk money from her anymore and he won’t get a single cent.
Enrico holds Alba by the neck saying he has nothing to lose but for her he’ll make sure she goes to a slum as he gives her a peg surprising Sita.
Conner arrives at the company eatery picking a mug when Diane arrives to tell him he can’t use that because it’s Joaquin’s cup. He Introduces himself as Engineer Paul Capio with Diane asking if there’s an engineer who appears out of no where? First at the Terminal, then at the eatery and also outside the distillery and now here at work too ? Isagani listens in on them as Diane says it’s not destiny anymore but planned.
Isagani approaches them too with Conner saying he just learnt Diane’s name since he doesn’t know but Isagani doesn’t look convinced, Lucas also comes there asking if he has a crush on Diane and that he’ll have a hard time winning her heart.
At the Silverio’s mansion, A furious Matteo walks into his office having flashbacks of what he just heard about Menandro. Menandro comes to ask if he has taken care of his problem already with Matteo saying he’s working on it and leaves.
At the living room Matteo picks up Menandro’s picture still having flashbacks about when he was beaten up saying now “he now knows how little Menandro thinks of him, he putted him on a pedestal and makes him dictate how he lives his life but not anymore and he’ll never let it happen again because from now on he will be in full control of his own life”.
At the Cardinal’s mansion, Alba arrives home saying no way, this can’t be happening to her and that Enrico was able to find her but she have to stop him from coming near the mansion, she arrives hastily asking Martha where Sita is and Martha reminds her she doesn’t work in the mansion anymore.
Sita arrives home too giving Martha what she bought from the market, she asked if Sita was okay and she said she’s but only hungry.
Sita arrives home having flashbacks of what Martha told her and also what she heard from the lips of Enrico.
She has flashbacks of Enrico and Alba’s affair years ago and how she saw them some time back in a compromising situation.
At the Esperanza’s, Conner visits them for lunch as he thanks them for inviting him over.
Irma said he’s handsome and looks like Isagani and Isagani says he says that about all his friends. They ask Conner about the search for his mother and offer their help.
At home, Lupita reminds Conner he’s only using Isagani and his family and what if there’re nice people he needs to stay focus to get back at Roman Cardinal since that’s his target and he shouldn’t forget that if he doesn’t want to fall into his own trap.
Sita in the kitchen cooks as she continues having flashbacks and asking what she’s going to do when Joaquin and Roman finds out. Lucas arrives telling her he invited his dad to have dine with them, they’ve dinner together but Sita seems off.
At the Cardinal mansion, Lonely Alba have dinner alone complaining about the food Martha served asking who cooked the food, Martha reminds her they haven’t hired anyone yet so she just bought the food to serve for dinner. Alba asked about Ramon and Martha tells her she saw him earlier taking Lucas to Sita’s house and maybe he will stay there for dinner. She gets up angry saying she won’t allow them defeat her.
Lucas praises his mom for cooking the best beef stew as Ramon reminisces Joaquin also liking it. Ramon said he hopes when Joaquin comes back he will accept the truth that they brothers.
Alba arrives clapping saying what a happy family, the father, the mother and the bastard Son and they finally managed to replace her and Joaquin and that they should eat because she’ll just observe them, Lucas says they don’t want trouble as Alba insults them.
Ramon decides to take Alba away as she attacks Sita with Lucas telling her to leave before he forgets his manners.
At the Silverio’s mansion, Matteo tells menandro’s picture he has betrayed him after he trusted him and won’t believe anything he tells him again. Madeline comes to ask if anything is wrong with him, he begs her for forgiveness of not being a good son and he will do anything for their family sake.
At the Cardinal distillery,Isagani ask Lucas if he can join him for his meeting with Conner and he says he can’t but gives him his car keys to use.
Isagani arrives to meet Conner, he sees some boys making fun of an old woman and comes to her rescue, Conner sees this saying “you’re a good person Isagani but I will spare no one in this mission, even not you to get even with Ramon Cardinal.
At the Silverio’s distillery, Dulce tells Matteo she cut down expenses but can’t still gain the money they lost and if they don’t recover their loses soon all their employees will loose their jobs and their company will go bankrupt with it being her fault but Matteo says it’s rather his fault they about to lose everything and he’ll fix everything.
At the Cardinal mansion, Alba ask Martha about Sita and if Roman or his bastard son Lucas is home and she just want to make sure Sita’s knights are not around telling Martha to go call her. Alba says she will drive her out of her house herself since Martha refuse to go call her.
Sita sweeps her house whiles still having flashbacks of her childhood with Alba asking her to pack their things quickly so they leave as she starts throwing up, Sita ask if she’s pregnant and wants them to leave because she doesn’t want Enrico to find out and Alba said she isn’t pregnant and won’t allow herself to be pregnant by that lowlife so she better stop entertaining such ideas and hurry up.
Sita tells herself Alba is nothing but a liar tricking all of them, talking of the devil Alba appears calling out Sita’s name saying finally there’s no one to protect her and she shouldn’t dare steal Ramon away from her and she should stop behaving so smart as if her family is complete because she’s the Queen of the estate and not her and will make sure to put her in her rightful place as soon as her son comes back home and Sita tells her to go ahead and make her son come back so they reveal the truth.
Alba ask what she means by that trying to hurt her, Sita kicks Alba off her and she falls down. She tells Alba she has no right to lay a hand on her or she will tell Don Roman all her dirty secrets and deception.
Alba ask what she’s talking about and Sita says she’s a menace and she continues to lie to the people she love because of her sins that keep piling up. She tells her she caught her and Enrico in the act and heard everything Enrico said and that Joaquin is not Don Roman’s son but her son with Enrico surprising Alba as Sita said she used Joaquin only to tie down Don Roman and she’s a fraud, Monster and a heartless woman because all this time she keeps denying her son his right for her son who isn’t even a real Cardinal scaring Alba who begs her not to tell Roman and Sita says she can’t control her and that if she doesn’t reveal the truth of Joaquin’s real identity she will be more than happy to do it as Alba looks scared.
Isagani and Conner, drive the old woman home as she’s confused about her home. They finally find her house unfortunately it’s the house of the mechanic(Rigor) who Alba paid to cut off Lucas car brakes as he looks scared seeing Isagani as the introduce themselves.
Conner tells Isagani it’s impressive helping the old woman without anything in return, he finally tells his story to Isagani disguised as someone else’s. Conner said he doesn’t know why Don Roman hide the fact that Lucas was his son and Isagani said he’s a good person and has his reasons.
At the Cardinal Mansion,Alba looks all scared and trembling in fear as she gets flashbacks of when she tells Enrico she wants to abort the child insulting him of being just a lowly gardener and she will never have a future with him as he tries to tell her not to do it and also how he meet Roman and Soledad.
So does Sita who also have flashbacks of the old times. We finally get to see how Alba was able to corner Don Roman and tie him down.
Sita tells herself she will no longer let Alba manipulate them and must put things right for Joaquin’s sake and everyone’s peace.
Alba also tells herself she committed murder ones before and won’t certainly think twice to do it again in other to coverup the whole truth about what really happened then.
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