Paloma's Inheritance Revealed

Rafael notices that Camila is sad but she corrected that its not about the wedding but about Romina finally finding out about her treacherous father. She tells him about Diana and Samuel and Rafael is surprised.

Back to the courtroom

German started his defense by calling Natalia to the witness stand. German first question to Natalia is why she didn't marry Cristobal when they were supposed to. Natalia tells how it wasn't meant for them to be together and Cristobal was not with the church then. German then brings up the constant visits of Cristobal to her house. Natalia confirms this. Eugenio and Madeline are far back watching the proceedings.

German leaves and the prosecutor takes his turn. The crowd is growing restless and the Judge quiets them.

Prosecutor wants to know why Cristobal visit her in her house alone and Natalia tells them about Paloma's inheritance they were investigating. She explains that Dr. Bermudez, Alonzo and Rufina are part of the team. German jumps up in protest and objects to this line of questioning but the judge over rules him and asked the prosecutor to carry on. Natalia tells the audience about Inaki and how he was going to marry Paloma but he died before the wedding. She explains how Inaki suspected Carlota and the inheritance Paloma was supposed to receive from Sagario and Javier. So when he died, they continued to meet and Alonzo after accepting the son's death and coming to know Paloma better joins.

There was uproar in the courthouse and the Judge angrily pounds his gavel demanding silence. The prosecutor surprised by this revelation, asked the judge for justice sake to invite Carlota for questioning. Paloma jumps up in shock too. The judge over rules German arguement and agrees with the Prosecutor that Carlota be invited for questioning the next day. German sits for a moment in shock even when the court was over while Paloma was questioning why her Aunt should be invited.Shes upset but remembers her conversation with Romina after Inaki's death where Romina suspected Carlota of killing Inaki. Gabriel asks if she suspected any foul play and she said no. At this point, Emiliano comes up to speak to her about Inaki and Paloma wonders why he or anybody never told her anything.

Camila and Romina went to see the baby and holding him for the first time, she's overwhelmed with emotion and cried. She tells Camila how small he is but Camila says yes he is precious. When the nurse tells them how Emiliano and Paloma visits have helped the baby, Romina is jealous.

Rafael and Luz talking about the little girl but Rafael warns her it will be very difficult to locate the girl in the big town. Rafael secretary, Cynthia comes in and sees the picture so she tells them how the girl and other kids are victims of of people who exploit them and use them for street begging. Luz can't believe this and vowing to help the little girl, pleads with Rafael to help her in locating the girl. Joel comes in carrying Monica's son and Luz tries playing with the child.

Back to the court room Fr. Benito is on the stand and he tells the court how Cristobal helps people to overcome their drug or alcohol addictions. Cristobal's mother smiles proudly at hearing this and German asks why anyone would accuse a man like that of murder.
The prosecutor asks about the state Cris was in when he first meets him. Fr Benito flashback to when he found Cris drunk and how he encouraged hm to stop drinking. when pressed to speak more on Cris personal life, Fr Benito declined and said only Cris can answer that as he will not break his vow to keep someone's confessions a secret.

Eugenio visits Carlota and tells he is starting an investigation. She looks at Eugenio nervously while he studies her reaction. He then leaves. Paloma walks into the gloomy living room and is verbally attacked by Carlota. The phone rings and Rufina answers and its German who calls to tell her that the judge orders for her presence the next day. Carlota says she is not coming and German says its by force. Carlota drops the telephone and turn to Rufina and Paloma asking if they knew about her being called to court. Rufina says yes as it was made public. Rufina asks tauntingly if she needs anything and she says  no and walks away.

Rufi then turns to Paloma and she too says she does not need anything from her as she kept the inheritance investigation a secret. When Rufi sees how upset she's with her, she pleads for forgiveness. She says they needed to get proof before telling her and its not about trusting her but the only practical thing to do under the circumstance. Paloma accepts and forgives her.