Umberto thought she was going to say something, but she didn’t expect it to be these words.
-I was tricked, by whom? You or that employee?
-By that employee! -Yolanda’s expression was very serious- -Why didn’t she appear before, but just now? Do you have any proof?
-Do you have any proof? -Umberto suddenly asked rhetorically, “At that moment, you also had no proof.
Yolanda paused for a moment and frowned:
-Does the scar on my waist count as proof?
At these words, Umberto’s eyebrows furrowed. This scar was indeed a burn, at that moment they were taken together to the hospital, and Yolanda had burns on her body.
Yolanda saw him frown and looked slightly relieved. She sighed and said quietly:
-You know that because of this scar, I never dared to wear a bikini. What I liked most was swimming, but since then I have never swam again to save you, how can you doubt me?
Umberto said nothing.
At that moment, a waiter suddenly rushed in:
-Fire!
The waiter’s face was covered in smoky dust and his clothes bore burn marks as he screamed and ran for the outside.
Yolanda froze, unpredictably remembering the fire from back then.
-Come on, let’s go!
She called Umberto and hurriedly got up, in heels, and prepared to run out.
But off to the side, several clerks also came out, and a cloud of black smoke billowed. The group of waiters rushed in and knocked down Yolanda and Umberto, who were off guard.
Yolanda got up and as she was about to leave, her leg was suddenly grabbed.
Looking down, she saw that Umberto was covering his forehead with one hand and grabbing it with the other:
-My leg has been stepped on and I cannot get up, help me.
Yolanda looked at him, then looked at the spreading black smoke and gritted her teeth. She had lied to him about what happened then, but as long as she saved him this time, Umberto should not deny it. After thinking clearly, she reached down and grabbed Umberto’s arm, trying to pull him up.
But it was difficult for her to do so when she was a woman in good health, let alone without strength after having lost so much weight.
Yolanda’s face was red with exhaustion, but Umberto was still lying on the floor, only dragged a little by her.
Finally she gave up. Looking at the incoming black smoke, if she didn’t run, she might die of suffocation.
-Umberto, I’m sorry, I really don’t have the strength. I’ll have someone come to save you.
After saying that, she prepared to run away, but her legs were still being pulled by Umberto. He looked up, although his face was expressionless, there was a prayer in his eyes:
-Save me from going out, the fire hasn’t gone up yet, you can drag me out.
Yolanda shook her head desperately in her heart.
“This can’t be. Dragging you out is going to be a huge waste of time. If the fire comes up and blocks the door by then, I’ll be dead.”
-Umberto, I’m sick, I have no strength. If I drag you, we may not even get out. I’d better find someone to save you, I can’t delay.
She inhaled the smoke and coughed loudly twice. Seeing that Umberto was still pulling her, she had no choice but to lift her other foot and kicked him twice hard in the hand.
Umberto let go with a cry of pain.
Yolanda didn’t bother to look at his expression, so she ran away.
Umberto looked at her back, feeling ridiculous.
Yolanda hurried out of the store and checked that there was no one at the entrance. The group of waiters had already rushed out. Looking at the cafeteria from which black smoke was billowing, she sighed in her heart.
She really wanted to save Umberto, unfortunately, there was no way. This coffee shop was isolated, the store next door was already closed and no one was there.
She pulled out her phone, ready to call the police, but stopped suddenly.
A crazy idea occurred to her.
Umberto didn’t like her and even broke off his engagement to be with Albina. This time she didn’t save him and left him, would Umberto hate her?
But if Umberto died….
Not only would Familia Carballal be unharmed and Albina would not have Umberto’s support, but he could do whatever he wanted to her.
Thinking like this, Yolanda felt so happy that she let her tears fall.
-Umberto, I’m so sorry.
After saying this, she was about to leave, but as soon as she turned her head, she was stopped by a few uniformed men. They were the sales clerks who had just run out.
Yolanda became angry and said:
-What are you doing? Come in. There are still people inside.
The clerks stopped her firmly and when they looked at the man coming out of the cafeteria, they smiled.
-Mr. Santangel, she has been detained.
Yolanda was startled when she found Umberto slowly walking out of the store.
He kept looking at her, making her nervous.
-How is it that your leg is okay?
-You keep saying it was you who saved me then, how do you explain it now? -Umberto scoffed.
Yolanda froze and looked at the cafeteria. There was no more smoke coming out, and the cafeteria remained normal.
-Bullshit! -Yolanda shouted.
The clerks smiled at her:
-We were conducting a fire drill in the store and forgot to inform you.
-That fire was real then, much more serious than today, and then you could have taken me out, but today I’m sitting a few meters from the entrance of the store and you couldn’t even do anything,” said Umberto indifferently.
-I’m sick and I don’t have the strength,” Yolanda was eager to argue slyly.
-You were able to get me out of there when I fainted, and now you can’t do it with me cooperating with you, are you kidding me? -Umberto interrupted her directly.
The sales clerks let out a sarcastic laugh.
-I went out to ask for help, but there was no one…. -Yolanda explained awkwardly.
-Why didn’t you call the firemen? -Umberto asked suddenly.
Yolanda looked at him in surprise, feeling very nervous. Was what she just did seen by him?
She tried to explain herself, but she couldn’t say anything.
-Yolanda, you want me to die, don’t you? -Umberto said angrily.
-No! -Yolanda hurried to answer, but her mind went blank.
Umberto did not listen to her sophistry and questioned her once more:
-Tell me clearly what happened then, including how you got these scars on your waist. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I’ll make Grupo Carballal disappear from Sogen City tomorrow!