The men were surrounding the thin girl. And behind them, two women seemed to be watching a show, with a smile.
-Yolanda, what is the quarrel between you and that blind girl. It’s very obvious that men bully her.
Emma looked at Yolanda and whispered in her ear.
-Nothing, I just don’t like that woman!
Yolanda looked at the frightened Albina, with a face of pleasure.
Now everyone thought that Umberto loved her very much and had waited for her for three years. He didn’t want people to know about Albina’s existence, but that didn’t stop him from being mean to her.
The group had already started touching her, one of them pulled her by the neck and tried to abuse her.
Albina struggled desperately, at that moment the necklace around her neck showed itself.
-It’s quite an elegant necklace, let me see.
Albina, startled, retrieved the necklace and tried to tuck it into her shirt, but the more anxious she was, the more she couldn’t do it.
-Seeing how anxious she is, it looks like it’s very important to her!
The men scoffed, excited by her act.
Yolanda, still watching the fun, saw the necklace and anger and cynicism welled up in her.
It wasn’t a necklace at all, the pendant she wore was simply a ring.
She had seen the same type of ring on Umberto’s hand, he didn’t like to wear accessories on his hand at all, but when she woke up and saw that he was wearing a ring on his hand, she thought that three years had passed and his habits had changed.
When he looked again at the necklace around Albina’s neck, he instantly understood that it was not just an accessory, but her wedding ring.
-Do me a favor!
She held back her anger and whispered in Emma’s ear.
-Really?
Emma’s eyes were full of astonishment.
-Of course!
Impatience shone in Yolanda’s eyes.
Emma dared not disobey, Yolanda’s family was above her own, it was even the one Umberto liked, no one would dare disobey her at all.
He approached one of the men and told him what Yolanda had asked.
The man nodded and gestured toward Yolanda.
Albina was backing away, trying to avoid the men’s hands, when she suddenly realized that her ring had been taken from her and rushed to shout:
-My necklace, give it back to me, give it back to me!
She didn’t know who had taken her necklace and, lost, she reached out to try to get her necklace back.
-Calm down. We just want to appreciate it.
They were very amused by her panicky act, throwing it at the others. It was fun to watch Albina spin around looking for the necklace when she heard the slightest noise.
-Please give it back to me, give me back my necklace, please.
Albina was crying and her voice was cracking with anxiety, it was the only thing she had taken from Umberto, the only thing that showed that the two of them had been together.
-Okay, we’ll give it back to you. Take it.
The man tossed her the necklace, and Albina strained to catch it, but she couldn’t see it, and the ring fell to the ground. It could not be found.
She knelt down and ran her fingers step by step across the floor, her eyes red-rimmed as she tried to find the ring.
She hated being blind and not being able to see anything, even if the ring was in front of her eyes, she couldn’t see it, so she had to grope.
Albina was on the ground, her wretched search pleasing the people, who were laughing and chattering.
-Look, how pathetic, she looks like this blind woman looking for the ring, like a dog.
-Look at her eyes, how beautiful when she cries, I love it when beauty falls in tears.
-Then let’s make her cry more.
As she said that, several men, who surrounded Albina and kept circling around, disturbing her.
-Go, you are stepping on my ring – Albina’s search was deliberately interrupted and she screamed, only to be drowned out by their loud mocking voices, and could only scream helplessly -Don’t step on it, please, my ring.
The man who had spoken to Yolanda let out an unpleasant laugh as he looked at Albina’s pale fingers on the floor.
The man stepped hard on the woman’s fingers and ran over them.
Albina winced in pain and tears fell from her eyes.
-My fingers…
As soon as the words left her mouth, her other hand was also trampled hard, Albina turned pale and let out two moans of pain, so miserable that Emma couldn’t bear to look at her.
-Yolanda, that’s enough.
-Let them go on! -Yolanda looked with satisfaction at the miserable Albina.
-Gentlemen, stop, the young lady was invited by Mr. Eagle, do you want to offend the Eagle family?
Albina did not know how many times she had been stepped on, the manager arrived and violently pushed the group.
The group froze, frightened by Miguel’s name, looked at Albina on the floor and hurriedly backed away.
-My ring! -Albina shouted hoarsely.
-The ring, here it is.
The attendant hurried to find the ring on the floor and handed it to her.
Albina grabbed it in panic and anxiety, trying to wipe the dust off the ring with her fingers, but remembering that her hands were covered in blood, she hurriedly wiped her fingers on her dress before carefully touching the ring.
Then she suddenly froze.
-Miss, is something wrong? -The attendant saw her appearance and quickly asked.
-The ring is broken!