Flora and Fermín Montes resume their relationship after a chance meeting, turning an old and damaging attachment into a present-tense choice. Fermín tells Amaia Salazar that he is back with Flora and insists that he has never stopped loving her. Amaia sees the reunion not as a simple private romance but as a danger intertwined with Flora’s past conduct, Fermín’s police work, and the possibility that confidential case information could reach her sister.

The Relationship Resumes

Fermín discloses the reconciliation to Amaia during a walk through a cold, nearly deserted town. He explains that, a few days earlier, while heading toward the police station, he encountered Flora’s car. They saw one another, Flora called to him, and they talked; now, he says, they are together. His account gives the renewed relationship a small, ordinary beginning, but the setting of the disclosure is tense: after crossing the plaza and the road, they reach the church, where Fermín stops and struggles to tell Amaia what has happened.

Amaia responds with disbelief and anger. She reminds Fermín of what Flora did to him and of what she nearly did, treating the reunion as a return to a danger he has already experienced rather than a fresh start. Her blunt warning that Flora will destroy him reflects her judgment of Flora, while Fermín’s response makes clear that he understands the risk and has chosen the relationship anyway.

He admits that he knows what Flora is like, but says he loves her and has been in love with her since they first met. Even through the months when he tried to persuade himself otherwise, he says, not a single day passed without his loving her. He describes Flora as his last opportunity. His declaration explains why warnings and remembered harm have not ended the attachment: for him, the relationship is not a sudden impulse, but a feeling that has endured through their separation.

Amaia’s Warning and the Professional Stakes

The conversation does not resolve Amaia’s fear for Fermín. After he reveals the relationship, she places a separate and explicit boundary on their professional connection: nothing said or done in the police station, or outside it, concerning any case is ever to reach her sister. Fermín assents, and Amaia makes him repeat the promise. His assurance that he has learned his lesson acknowledges a previous breach or failure of judgment, although this scene does not specify its details.

Amaia makes the consequence unmistakable. If she suspects that case information has reached Flora, her affection for Fermín will not protect him; she will have him removed permanently, not merely from a particular case but from the police. The reconciliation therefore places personal feeling beside institutional trust. Fermín’s renewed intimacy with Flora does not change Amaia’s duty to protect investigations, and his promise becomes a condition of their continued working relationship.

Amaia Challenges Flora

Amaia later confronts Flora directly. She takes her sister’s coat from the entryway, throws it at her feet, and follows her out, ignoring the questions of the others. Once they are outside, Amaia demands that Flora stop pretending to be an ordinary person and explain what she intends with Fermín. She frames the relationship through its history: Fermín is the man Flora nearly destroyed and the police officer who was suspended for almost a year because of her.

Amaia also claims special knowledge of the past. She says she was present on the night Víctor died and knows what really happened, including the reasons Flora became involved with Fermín then. Her challenge is thus not only that Flora may harm Fermín again; Amaia suspects that the relationship has an instrumental purpose and invokes the earlier episode as evidence that Flora’s conduct cannot be taken at face value.

Flora rejects that interpretation. She points out that Amaia has no proof of what happened on the night Víctor died and says Amaia does not know the full story. She concedes that she may not have been entirely honest with Fermín when they first met, but emphasizes that she was then a married woman and Fermín knew it. Circumstances have changed, she argues, and her interest in him is now honest. Her account distinguishes past deception from present intent, without erasing the history that makes Amaia suspicious.

An Unsettled Reconciliation

Amaia refuses Flora’s claim of sincerity. She accepts that Flora is interested in Fermín but disputes that the interest is romantic, suggesting instead that Flora is drawn to someone young, blonde, and beautiful. The accusation gives the confrontation a further edge: Amaia believes Flora’s attention may be directed toward someone other than Fermín, though the supplied scene does not establish that suspicion as fact.

The reunion consequently remains unresolved. Fermín’s declaration establishes the depth and persistence of his love, and Flora calls her current interest honest; Amaia, remembering the near-destruction of Fermín’s career and asserting knowledge of Flora’s earlier motives, sees the same relationship as a potential threat. The scene ends with Flora’s habitual disdain giving way to visible fury, while Amaia’s own anger mirrors it. Rather than confirming which sister is right, the encounter leaves the renewed relationship under pressure from the very history it is supposed to have overcome.