Lucía’s heart breaks. But then she remembers something: years ago, Doña Elvira falsified a document to gain control of the hospital from Andrés’s inheritance. Lucía has the only copy—hidden in a safe at her grandmother’s shop. She had found it while cleaning the old files and kept it “just in case.”
Tamara’s scheme is one of the most dramatic in telenovela history. She discovers that Cristina is not actually the biological daughter of the family patriarch, Andrés Miranda, but was adopted. Using this secret, Tamara forces Cristina to leave Víctor Manuel and flee to France in exchange for keeping the truth from her beloved father. Víctor Manuel, believing Cristina abandoned him for wealth, marries another woman out of despair.