Olivia didn’t react at first to what Sergio said, and when she did, she unconsciously exclaimed:
-What, you’ve gone to see Albina!
-Why are you shouting? The dog woke up because of you,” Sergio covered his ears and gave him a look.
-Why did you go to see her? She’s not married to my son yet! She’s a woman of low quality. What if she bothers you?
-What, do I need your permission to go somewhere? -Sergio looked very upset.
He had seen how gentle and polite Albina was this afternoon, and now, witnessing Olivia’s contemptuous tone, he could also understand Umberto’s feelings. It was no wonder Umberto had become increasingly cold to his mother in recent years.
When Olivia saw that Sergio was angry, she instantly did not dare to speak, but continued to scold Albina in her heart.
Umberto’s handsome face was very serious on the road. He went straight to a Santangel Family coffee shop and spoke to the store keeper, who soon emptied out.
Umberto sat down in his seat and called Yolanda.
Yolanda had just finished taking a shower, when she heard the doorbell ring, she thought it was Jaime’s call. She was about to go to answer it and, she found that it was Umberto!
“How can Umberto call me at this time?”
Yolanda looked out the window at the night, excited.
Even though she was now in private with Jaime, she still liked Umberto.
She thought they would never have any contact again. Unexpectedly, Umberto called her in the night.
She cleared her throat before carefully answering the phone:
-Umberto?
-It’s me! -Umberto’s look was indifferent with disgust, but his voice was inaudible. Are you free now? I want to see you.
-Yes!” answered Yolanda with enthusiasm, but after feeling too anxious, she slowed down her answer a little. But it’s already too late…
-If you don’t have time, forget it.
She didn’t expect Umberto to say no. Yolanda couldn’t worry about his modesty, so she gritted her teeth and said:
-I have time, what do you want from me?
-Go to XXX, I’ll wait for you here -Umberto hung up the phone after saying that.
Yolanda’s face turned red with emotion. She looked at herself in the mirror and hurried to dry her hair and do her make-up.
Umberto sat in the coffee shop and waited for a long time before Yolanda arrived. Looking at his serious face, she said:
-Sorry… I’m late….
-Sit down! -Umberto pointed to the seat in front of his.
Yolanda sat down gracefully. It had taken her a long time to put on her make-up, she couldn’t compare with Albina. She waited impatiently for Umberto’s compliments, but she found that the way he looked at her had not changed, that he was still indifferent.
-What do you want from me? -asked Yolanda.
Only then Umberto spoke:
-When I was sixteen, you said you had saved me.
Hearing him talk about it, Yolanda was moved for a moment, thinking that Umberto had finally realized her kindness. Waving her hand, she said modestly:
-You don’t have to worry so much. I threatened you with favors before, which annoyed you, but I won’t do it now, don’t worry.
She pretended to be generous, looking as honest as if she had really been the one who had saved him then.
She was so brazen that she wasn’t even ashamed to take credit for it to anyone.
“How ridiculous!”
“She lied to me for so many years without realizing the truth!”
-Yolanda! -Umberto interrupted her impatiently-. The person who saved me, was it really you?
Before Umberto asked this question, Yolanda thought it was impossible for him to know about this. After all, there was no one around at that moment, apart from Jaime. As long as Jaime didn’t say anything, and the middle-aged man didn’t find Familia Santangel, no one would know.
But when Umberto asked, she froze instantly. Her palms were sweating nervously and her cheeks were pale.
She smiled stiffly:
-Why are you asking me all of a sudden? Of course I saved you. There were only two of us at the time, I saved you and I fainted, doesn’t everyone know that?
Umberto let out a cold laugh:
-Everybody knows? Only you said it, that’s why everyone believed it.
-Umberto! -Yolanda suddenly raised her voice. I know you hate me, but you can’t deny that I saved your life.
After saying this aloud, her voice lowered aggressively:
-Now I don’t even have to threaten you with favors, how can you do this to me? Umberto, you have changed. How could you do this to me for that woman. I am your benefactor.
Yolanda’s eyes were red as she looked at him:
-If you really don’t want to acknowledge this favor, tomorrow I will upload a publication, saying that I didn’t save you before, and all our favors will be erased.
Umberto looked at her calmly.
“Yolanda is really good at acting.”
The whole cafe was still and quiet, nothing but Yolanda’s sobs.
-Yolanda, that’s enough. I haven’t suspected this affair for so many years, why do you think I’m seeing you today?
Her eyes were full of sarcasm.
Yolanda froze for a moment and squeezed his hand:
-Isn’t it because of Albina? You denied my kindness to marry Albina. You don’t have to do that. I don’t want you now.
Umberto watched her talk on and on, and felt more annoyed.
-There is nothing to do with her. Familia Santangel has found the employee of that hotel back then. She admitted that she witnessed the whole process of our rescue. It was a middle-aged man who saved us together and then left. It was you who took the credit for him.
Umberto said clearly, staring at her, and saw the panic in her eyes.
Yolanda was really scared. She didn’t expect that apart from Jaime, there was someone else witnessing the scene then.
“No wonder Umberto had approached me, so he had found a witness.”
At the time, she even hid what happened from her own parents. In time, even she herself became convinced that she was Umberto’s savior.
With this saving grace, she let Umberto help her many times, and she also threatened him quite a few times.
“If I had admitted it, the consequences would have been unthinkable.”
Yolanda swallowed saliva as she looked at Umberto and said seriously:
-Umberto, you’ve been tricked!