love with him. Cristina is the adopted and grown up daughter of Matilde, who happens to be Alberto's real life aunt. Alberto develops a relationship with the Del Junco family as Cristina introduces him to everyone. The Del Juncos', with exception of spiteful Matilde are taken by the young man. Maria Elena in fact, feels a special bond for her niece's boyfriend. Maria Elena is by then a nun living in a convent resigned a long time ago to never finding her son and her beloved nana. A dramatic turn of events happens when Don Rafael del Junco pays an unsuspecting Maria Dolores a visit after he is given an emergency blood transfusion by Alberto. The meeting of these two characters is the paramount event of the entire drama as Maria Dolores reveals to Don Rafael that Doctor Alberto Limonta, the blood donor is in fact the Del Junco heir sent to his death by his own grandfather. Don Rafael gets home and has a stroke which leaves him immobilized and unable to speak. This ploy prologued the drama for months in which Alberto and Cristina's love story takes a secondary role to the quest by Don Rafael's desire and his inability to tell Maria Elena that Albertico is her son. Maria Elena, eventually meets Maria Dolores who reveals that she had to flee Veracruz to save the child. In a highly emotional episode, Maria Elena, and Maria Dolores tell Alberto the entire truth. Alberto instead of happiness feels sadness and resentment as he believes that Cristina is his first cousin making them an unlikely pair to marry. It is then when Matilde plagued by remorse and sadness confesses to Cristina that she is adopted; hence, permitting the two to marry. Don Rafael now able to speak, wants Alberto to take the Del Junco name to which Alberto refuses and decides to keep Limonta instead as he had grown up with him. Cast Verónica Castro as María Elena del Junco Sergio Jiménez as Jorge Luis Armenteros Ignacio López Tarso as Don Rafael del Junco María Rubio as Clemencia del Junco Humberto Zurita as Alberto Limonta Salvador Pineda as Alfredo Martínez Socorro Avelar as María Dolores Limonta Erika Buenfil as Isabel Cristina del Río Beatriz Castro as Matilde del Junco Cristian Castro as Alberto (child) Malena Doria as Sor Julia Laura Flores as Amelia Montero Miguel Macía as Alejandro Sierra Miguel