Albina was injured?
Suddenly Mrs. Santangel remembered the moment when she was almost dragged to the entrance of the bank. On the occasion of saving her from the two bandits, Albina took off her shoes and threw them towards them.
She was also barefoot when she was running.
Suddenly Mrs. Santangel took a deep breath because she remembered the small alley through which they ran and whose path was marred by many small stones and broken glass.
Even her feet ached in her shoes, let alone the girl with bare feet.
Albina, however, showed no pain. If it weren’t for finding the wounds on the bottom of her foot and the incorrect way she was walking, she possibly wouldn’t have even known she was injured at all.
Mrs. Santangel frowned and felt uncomfortable for the first time, but did not consider in detail what kind of feeling it was.
-Ugh, what a pain.
Albina stepped out of the alley, leaned against the wall and squatted down carefully. She saw that the skin on the sole of her foot was broken with blood gushing out, causing her body to tremble with suffering.
She did not want to present the weakness before Mrs. Santangel, but after leaving her sight, she could not ignore the suffering.
Especially on the sole of her foot. It felt like walking on the tip of a knife as she took a step.
Albina hesitated for a while but still didn’t call Umberto because he was too busy at the company and was already too tired, so she didn’t want him to worry about herself.
She bought a random pair of shoes on the street and went to the nearest clinic to treat the injury on her foot. Then she went to the bank to withdraw money again and took a cab home.
When she got home, she had a lot of cold sweat on her forehead because she had endured the pain all the way.
The first thing she did when she got home was to take off her shoes, and she lay down on the couch, noticing that the wound that had been bandaged was bleeding again.
She heaved a sigh and propped her feet up on the back of the couch, unwilling to treat the bleeding wound.
The doctor said it was nothing serious and the wound was already well sterilized and would heal soon as long as she did not walk.
After running such a long distance that day, she was already very tired and fell asleep on the couch soon.
Elsewhere, something happened to Mrs. Santangel. She refused the bank manager’s apology and was ready to drive home, but someone stopped her.
The person was none other than Yolanda.
She looked worried and looked at her saying:
-Mrs. Santangel, are you all right, have they hurt you?
Mrs. Santangel had not seen Yolanda in a long time. They used to get along well and even their relationship was as intimate as mother and daughter at one point, but now she felt embarrassed.
Yolanda had deceived the Santangel Family for so many years, moreover, with the hostile relationship between the Carballal Family and the Santangel Family, Mrs. Santangel did not give her a good attitude.
-Yolanda, don’t forget about the relationship between our families. I don’t understand why you come to talk to me at this hour. What are you thinking?
Mrs. Santangel snorted coldly. She wasn’t stupid, Yolanda wouldn’t really care about her and just wanted to get some benefits from her.
Yolanda looked a little uncomfortable, but to get Mrs. Santangel’s help, she still said reluctantly:
-I know something happened before and you were left with a bad impression of me. But I have done everything because I am in love with Umberto, even if I can take advantage of all the resources of the Carballal Family to help him if necessary. I lost my head and did many irreversible things.
She knew exactly what Mrs. Santangel liked and particularly emphasized the resources of the Carballal Family.
Inevitably it was a very effective fact because Mrs. Santangel’s expression softened a bit, but she still said:
-I can forgive you about the past, but now our Santangel Family and the Carballal Family are irreconcilable enemies, so we will not be in contact again.
Once she finished the words, Yolanda lowered her head and said in a low but still firm voice:
-Impossible.
-How? -Mrs. Santangel did not like to be opposed, and seemed slightly upset when she heard what she said.
Then Yolanda suddenly raised her head and looked at her with clairvoyant eyes:
-Mrs. Santangel, I can never treat you as a stranger. Umberto doesn’t like me, so I can stay away from him, but from you, I cannot.
Mrs. Santangel was stunned for a while.
Yolanda continued:
-In the past, you helped me and loved me as much as my mother. I can’t treat you as a stranger because of the confrontation of the two families. It is too cruel. I can’t do it.
Mrs. Santangel had never enjoyed this kind of respect and intimacy from Umberto. When she heard what Yolanda said, she was a little moved and even thought that Yolanda had some personality problems but was quite filial.
Just when she was ready to speak to Yolanda with some kind words, Yolanda continued:
-Today I heard that you were attacked by some people, I was very worried about you. Fortunately, my people were doing things nearby and knew that I respected you a lot, that’s why, I saved you.
-Wait! -Mrs. Santangel interrupted her and looked at her with a complicated look -You said your people saved me?
-Yes,” Yolanda showed a rather sincere expression, “Didn’t he tell you? This person has always been negligent. She didn’t even say hello to you for me. But she is also very honest and never takes credit for someone else.
-Enough! -Mrs. Santangel interrupted her bitterly with a lot of impatience in her face and a strong disgust in her eyes-Yolanda, Umberto is right, you are quite disgusting.
Seeing the change in his expression, Yolanda panicked, not knowing why a short while ago he was still very kind but changed so quickly in an instant. Had he said something he shouldn’t tell?
-Didn’t you ask who is the one who saved me? -Mrs. Santangel asked coldly when she realized her surprise.
Yolanda was stunned for a while. She only heard that it was a girl, but she didn’t know who she really was because she didn’t care.
Her idea was that even if she didn’t have time to save Mrs. Santangel, she had to take the merits herself, and then she just needed to find the girl and bribe her.
So she didn’t care who it was.
-Well…
Seeing her stutter, Mrs. Santangel scoffed:
-You don’t need to look for an excuse. The person who saved me can never be your people. He hates you. No wonder Umberto and Sergio didn’t like you, because you tell lies so naturally. I happen to be the one who hasn’t known you clearly for so many years.
Yolanda panicked without stopping thinking about the hate and the girl. An image of a person emerged in her brain.
-Albina? she said hesitantly in a high-pitched voice.
Mrs. Santangel scoffed:
-Correct, it’s her -Surprise?
Yolanda’s fingers trembled slightly whose face suddenly turned pale, thinking why it was her.
It could have been any girl, but in the end it was Albina! She stood blushing, lowered her head and dared not speak any more.
Seeing her like that, Mrs. Santangel felt even more disgusted inside:
-Go away, don’t stand in my way. Do not appear before me again from now on. How disgusting you are.
She always spoke harshly to others. At first she still treated Yolanda kindly because of the good relationship before, but she had just heard her words, then she felt disgusting as if she had swallowed a fly.
Mrs. Santangel felt very lucky now because Umberto had broken the marriage, otherwise, if Yolanda showed the defects after becoming her daughter-in-law, she herself would have found no chance to repent.
Thinking of Albina, she suddenly made such a comparison and believed that Albina was not from a good family but much better than Yolanda.
Yolanda was forcibly ejected by someone to give way, and Mrs. Santangel did not even look at her and ordered people to drive to leave.
The car drove off, getting farther and farther away. At the same time, Yolanda raised her head, stared at the direction the car was going and clenched her hands tightly.
She was very angry.
She had really wanted to get Mrs. Santangel’s help, but she ended up making a fool of herself. It turned out that Albina saved her. Would Mrs. Santangel change Albina’s attitude?
As she considered it, she felt extremely depressed, because she had arranged so many things, but to no avail, which made her quite angry.