-Good morning, Mr. Santangel.
Umberto saw Ruben approaching and asked him:
-What is it?
Ruben handed over the document he was holding:
-It is about some of the properties of Grupo Carballal, and now a large part of them have been merged by Grupo Santangel.
Umberto took it and looked at it.
When these industries had previously belonged to Grupo Carballal, most of them were losing money, especially after the absence of Grupo Santangel’s support. Yolanda had also diverted the liquidity of these industries for novelties, which is why they were so unbearable.
Grupo Santangel did not have to pay much before Grupo Carballal declared bankruptcy and then Grupo Santangel kept the properties.
These properties did not benefit Grupo Carballal, but were of great use to Grupo Santangel.
After reading the information, Umberto threw the folder to Ruben and said:
-Send those few people to take care of it. In three months, if I don’t see benefits, don’t come back to the company.
-Which ones? -Ruben froze.
-The guys who peeked into my office with you before.
-I didn’t.” Ruben said with a face full of aggravation.
-So I said those people instead of you,” Umberto said.
Ruben looked elated and hurried to say:
-Thank you, Mr. Santangel. You are very intelligent and fair…
The more Umberto listened, the more he felt something was wrong. Ruben was satirizing him, wasn’t he?
-Enough, if you say more, I’ll let you go too.
Ruben shut his mouth instantly, and only after a long while he said:
-By the way, Mr. Santangel, yesterday Yoli’s clothes caused a human death, but now all the relevant news has disappeared.
-Jaime did it, didn’t he? -Umberto said.
-Yes -Ruben was about to tell the results of his own investigation, but he did not expect it to be guessed by Umberto.
-Yolanda no longer has anyone to back her up, Familia Carballal has offended all the families in Sogen City. No one is willing to help her, so the person could only be Jaime -Umberto said.
-Jaime is really idle, Pedro has joined Grupo Seco and still has time to clean up Yolanda’s mess.
-Mr. Santangel, what do we do now? -Ruben asked. The Seco family and Familia Santangel already have a big conflict because of what happened before. Should we interfere in Jaime’s matter this time?
-Why not? -Didn’t we say before that we wanted to wipe out the Carballal Group completely, and isn’t Yolanda a member of Familia Carballal? Besides, Grupo Santangel is a very fair company. She did such a thing, so of course we have to solve it.
-You go and promote again all those news that were suppressed before -Umberto gave the order dryly.
Ruben nodded and hurried out of the office.
As Umberto watched him leave, he looked out the window. The sunlight outside was just right, but his gaze was very indifferent.
If he wanted to take on the Carballal Family, he had to wipe out the Carballal Family people completely, and he couldn’t give them a chance.
Yolanda was no different, although he could not kill her directly, he would not allow her to become a threat to Albina.
***
Yolanda had a good night’s sleep, having solved yesterday’s problem and counting on Jaime’s help in dealing with Pedro and his mother. After a while, all she had to do was open Yoli again.
When she thought about it, Yolanda couldn’t help but feel happier.
The person next to her had long since disappeared. Yolanda touched the blanket that was very cold.
She hurriedly got up and prepared to go wash and put on her makeup.
Jaime’s temper had clouded since his leg problem. She had to behave herself in order to win his affection and keep him as a support.
Yolanda got dressed as quickly as she could and when she passed by the studio, she overheard Jaime talking to someone on video.
She just listened for a while and understood that Jaime was talking to someone from Grupo Seco.
Although Jaime was far from the center of power and Alfredo had ordered him to stay here to recuperate, he also had someone keeping an eye on various things in the company.
This was especially true because today was the day Pedro enters the company, giving him a sense of urgency and added pressure.
He was on the phone with his people first thing in the morning to find out what was going on.
Yolanda did not dare to hide here and eavesdrop, she hesitated for a moment, but still went obediently to the living room.
The maid saw her get up and brought her breakfast.
Seeing this, Yolanda was in a better mood.
Although these servants were a bit dull, they had been trained by Jaime to be very perceptive, and although they knew that the Carballal Group no longer existed, they were still very respectful of her.
Yolanda enjoyed this attitude, and as she ate breakfast, she pulled out her phone and started looking up some keywords about Yoli.
The money had been paid yesterday, and the couple hadn’t said anything firm before she left, so there shouldn’t be any major problems.
She set to searching with a light heart, but when she looked at the search results, the spoon in her hand fell on the table.
Yolanda’s fingers continued to tremble:
-How is it possible?
What was going on? The news had not been suppressed, why were reports of this incident everywhere.
She swallowed saliva as if she didn’t believe her eyes, closed them tightly and carefully opened them again, but the page on her phone screen was still the same.
It was full of news about Yoli’s poisoned clothes killing people.
It was even more intense than before, there were many other news besides this one.
For example the bad quality of the clothes. All kinds of some news that didn’t appear before, all of them appeared now.
Some netizens and video bloggers were also following the trend, buying clothes from other buyers at a high price, making videos and live streaming their reviews.
Yolanda’s fingers trembled as she read each article, staring at the screen where the review bloggers were criticizing Yoli’s clothes with disgust. Their mouths opened and closed but made no sound for a long time.
“What is this?”
“How long has it been since then, and why is it all over the Internet already?”
“This can’t be!”
Yolanda felt very worried and scared, if this was the case, there was no way her company could reopen. It was obvious that someone was deliberately trying to harm her.
There was no one else who could do this but Umberto.
At most, the Leoz Family people would send someone to ruin his store, but Umberto was really trying to cut off all his hopes.
At that moment, Jaime came out of the study on his crutches and saw Yolanda sitting dumbly at the dining room table, her spoon dropped on the table and the breakfast in front of her practically untouched.
Her voice was hoarse as she said:
-Breakfast is not to your liking?
This voice brought Yolanda out of her thoughts, and she raised her head to look at Jaime, as if she had grabbed a life preserver. She got up hurriedly and ran to him.
Her face was pale and her voice trembled with sobs:
-Jaime, please help me, you can only help me this once.
-What’s wrong? -Jaime asked her.
The things that could make her show such emotions? Jaime had a guess in his heart.
Indeed, Yolanda told him what she had just seen:
-Umberto must have guessed that it was you who was helping me, that’s why he did such a thing deliberately. He only wanted to do it against you. He does it to despise you and thinks you are a handicapped person.
After saying that, Yolanda looked down at Jaime’s feet.
Jaime’s face instantly darkened.