At these words, the bedroom fell silent.
Umberto remembered that agreement, the one she couldn’t wait to sign, to throw it all away, to run away from him no matter what the harassment.
-Albina, do you want to be humiliated and harassed like today, instead of following me? Do you think Miguel can protect you?
-I didn’t want Miguel to protect me! -Albina, angry, hateful and with her heart swollen with anger, cursed him -Umberto, behave yourself, we are divorced, you have nothing to do with me, I don’t want to stay with you, I don’t want to be your mistress!
If he liked and appreciated her, he would not have said such humiliating things as making her his mistress.
Umberto’s patience was wearing thin as he heard her words, and he was not a man of good character.
-Okay, I was wrong, you’re on your own. Even if they kill you, I won’t give you a second glance.
He laughed with a difference.
After saying that, he wanted to leave the room.
-Wait! -Albina shouted.
Just when Umberto thought she was going to change her mind, her fingers came out from under the sheets, with the broken ring on her palm.
-Take the ring, what doesn’t belong to me always doesn’t belong to me!
Umberto, full of hostility, reached over and snatched the ring violently, heading for the door.
He had almost left the room when suddenly his phone rang, and he was filled with irritation at the thought that it was Yolanda. At the sight of the note, her whole body froze and she looked at Albina.
After picking up the phone and listening to what was being said, she was startled, rushed towards Albina and tried to pull her out of bed.
-What are you doing, let go of me, don’t touch me!
Thinking that he wanted to harm her, Albina waved her hands, trying to push him away.
-Albina, I advise you not to move, a moment ago your mother’s neighbor called me. The Espina family went to make trouble and confronted your mother, during the argument she fell and had a sudden brain hemorrhage, now they are resuscitating her – said Umberto.
When Albina heard the news, her legs went limp and she fell to the floor with a pale face. Reacting, she touched the wall and ran out.
-I’ll take you there,” Umberto lifted her up from behind.
This time Albina didn’t refuse, she couldn’t see the road and didn’t know which hospital her mother was in.
-Drive the car and let’s go to the central hospital.
As Umberto ran out with Albina in his arms, Ruben came down the stairs just in time to hear his boss yelling at him.
The car started and Umberto carried Albina to the car, cradling her in his arms the whole time, watching her pale, trembling, shivering face, and suddenly remembering that he had found her and her mother on the road three years ago.
That day, with her mother in her arms, she was on her knees on the road begging him for help, not knowing whether she felt the cold or the fear, her whole body was shivering too.
The car was well warmed up and it was not cold. Umberto knew she was scared, her mother was the only family she had and if even she died, what would happen to Albina, he dared not imagine.
It wasn’t long before she arrived at the hospital and Umberto rushed to the door of the consulting room with her in his arms.
-My mother, my mother, when did they bring her here, is she still in the operating room? Where is the doctor? -Albina felt his fierce breathing and pulled out of his arms, tugging at her clothes and asking in a small, anxious voice.
Albina was pale, but her eyes were red, clearly scared to the core, tears welling up inside her, but stubbornly refusing to fall.
At that moment, Umberto felt he couldn’t breathe.
-She’s still in the operating room, I’ve got the best doctors to go, she’ll be all right.
As soon as the words left her mouth, a tear slipped from Albina’s eyes, as if it had fallen on Umberto’s heart.
-Thank you.
She didn’t know what to say, she could only repeat her thanks.
She hated Umberto for cheating her feelings and trampling on her heart, but at this moment, she was truly grateful to him.