The look in her eyes made Umberto’s eyes turn red all of a sudden, and he rushed to embrace her with a trembling voice:
-She’s already gone, Albina, you and I?
-Lie, my mother is not dead, that’s not possible!
Albina pushed him away and shouted frantically, how could her condition deteriorate in a single night?
She was trying to convince herself, but the tears could not stop.
Albina ran to the bed, pushed her mother’s body and cautiously shouted:
-Mommy, wake up, tell them you’re not dead, you’re still alive!
But no matter how hard she pushed her, the body did not react and still had no warmth, no heartbeat.
Albina desperately sat down on the floor and said to Umberto after a long time:
-Go away, please, I want to be alone with my mother.
Umberto looked at her and knew she needed to unburden herself, left the room and closed the door.
After a while, he heard heartbreaking screams coming from the ward, he lit a cigarette with a trembling hand and started pacing around the door with red eyes, his hand wouldn’t stop shaking he couldn’t even hold the cigarette properly.
Smoking was not allowed in the hospital, but everyone present from the hospital did not dare to stop him.
The body was sent to the morgue, Umberto helped take care of the funeral, Albina sat alone on the floor, the tears on her face had dried up.
The doctor said that her mother had another hemorrhage in the brain and that the bleeding site was in the bridge of varolio, the serious point for life, which caused her sudden death.
She could not accept this reality, she planned to cure her eyes and her mother’s illness soon to take her on a trip and stay by her side. Her father had taken care of her for half her life and she could take care of him for the rest of her life.
She didn’t get to tell her mother, she didn’t even get a chance to see her one last time.
Albina’s eyes were sore, but the tears had dried and she could cry no more.
At that moment someone was heard approaching her in high heels, a woman crouched beside her, and Albina could make out the smell of perfume on her.
It was Yolanda.
Albina only moved her eyes, she wasn’t paying attention to her.
Yolanda looked at her red, puffy eyes and seeing her so badly, she laughed good-naturedly:
-Look at you, your eyes are puffy and your hair is messed up like crazy, you look terrible.
-Go away! -he shouted at her in a hoarse voice.
Yolanda didn’t get angry, she let out a mysterious laugh and said in a low voice with bad intentions close to her ear:
-Albina, I advise you to divorce Umberto quickly, or you will be the next victim.
Albina raised her head abruptly and looked at her without understanding:
-Yolanda, what do you mean?
She looked angrily, grabbed her neck tightly and asked in a hoarse voice:
-Do you know anything about my mother’s dead, you killed her right?
She remembered when Yolanda left yesterday and said she wanted to take revenge on her and today her mother suddenly passed away, it couldn’t be a coincidence, surely she was the one behind all this.
Yolanda’s eyes were full of mischief, she smiled mischievously and whispered in his ear:
-That’s right, I went to see your mother last night. I told her that her daughter is a dirty bitch, she was Umberto’s mistress for three years to save his life, she was only a sex slave….
Albina’s hand suddenly tightened, shaking uncontrollably, and she slapped her fiercely:
-Snake woman, I’ll kill you, go to hell!
Her eyes were full of red blood and she wanted to cut her into a thousand pieces.
Yolanda touched her sore face, looked at her crazy look and continued:
-I only said a few words, I didn’t imagine that her psychology was so weak that she died from getting angry.
-Poor Albina, I was with her in her last moment, but you lost the last chance to see her, I feel so sorry for you.
Albina lost the last tolerance, she threw herself at her desperately and strangled her neck.
At this moment, she really wanted to kill this vicious woman.