Sandra was furious and embarrassed as she listened to Umberto’s words.
She had originally wanted to tell Umberto that Miguel had not taken the opportunity to touch Albina when they exchanged clothes.
But faced with the situation, she decided to keep quiet.
“I won’t tell Umberto, and I’ll make him anxious and worried out of his mind!”
***
Albina woke up dazed and confused. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in darkness.
She froze for a moment, thinking she had lost her sight again.
But in the next second, she reacted to the fact that her eyes were blocked by a black cloth. Her arms and legs were also bound, and she was being held in someone’s arms.
At this moment she was calm. Because of her experience with blindness, her senses were much more acute than others. She smelled the familiar scent of medicine and heard the somewhat intense sound of her heartbeat and breathing.
There was no doubt that the person holding her was Miguel.
She remembered the scene before she passed out and felt disappointed.
Miguel had really lied to her.
Albina had trusted him sincerely and followed him to a secluded place to talk.
She had thought she could use the opportunity to completely undo the conflict between them, but she had never expected Miguel to do something as daring and ridiculous as assaulting her at her engagement party.
Suddenly, Miguel stopped dead in his tracks, but kept hugging her tightly, and said in a low, husky voice:
-Albina…
Albina immediately closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. Anyway, her eyes were covered by a black cloth, so Michael could not see them.
Now she was so angry that she didn’t want to say half a word to Miguel.
“Why did he have to solve the problem this way, why did he lie to me?”
Albina felt very aggrieved in her heart.
Miguel did not listen to her answer. He looked at her slightly tense lips and sighed.
-Don’t pretend. I know you’re awake.
Albina still said nothing, silently protesting.
Miguel continued to move forward very firmly and murmured:
-Every time you get angry, your lips tighten and your eyebrows draw together. You can’t fool me.
He continued to speak in a soft voice, as if he were chatting with his love.
When Albina heard him speak alone, she felt uncomfortable, but at the same time angrier. Finally, unable to bear it, she said grumpily:
-Miguel, since you know me so well, you should know that right now I am very angry!
-At last you’re talking to me! -Miguel exclaimed, surprised. Then she lowered her head a little and brushed his cheek with the tip of her nose.
It was like a puppy caressing its owner’s cheek with its nose, careful and gentle.
The anger that had built up in Albina’s heart dissipated with this action.
Her face tensed, she bit her lower lip and her eyes moistened slightly.
-Miguel, can you let go of me? Umberto will worry about me. Today is my engagement party….
“It was the engagement party I had been looking forward to for a long time!”
Miguel paused a little, but continued on his way. Only after a long time, he said:
-It’s impossible. Since I risked enough and went to a lot of trouble to take you. How could I let you come back so easily?
His voice was slightly muffled, and his attitude was paranoid.
-I’ve thought it through. I didn’t disgrace you by taking you at the end, when the guests were leaving.
If it wasn’t for the fact that Albina’s arms and legs were tied at that moment, I would have wanted to punch Miguel in the face.
“What nonsense are you talking about! He did such a ridiculous thing and he still thinks his plan was well thought out. This act of his is really very capricious.”
-Miguel, I love Umberto very much. Even if you take me away and lock me up for the rest of my life, I couldn’t love you.
Albina let out a soft sigh, leaving Miguel completely disappointed.
Albina could feel Miguel’s fingers and body tighten a lot after she finished saying this sentence.
Just when she thought Miguel was going to change his mind, he suddenly let out a light laugh.
-It doesn’t matter. As long as I love you and will be with you for a long time, one day my love will touch you.
The more Albina listened, the angrier she became. She didn’t know if it was because of the heat or not, but the irritation in her heart was getting stronger and stronger.
-Are you crazy! Is it worth wasting your whole life for a woman who doesn’t love you?
Miguel saw her beautiful face redden with anger and explained very patiently:
-I used to have mental problems, but now I can be sure that I am fine. I am very conscious of what I am saying now.
Albina was so depressed that she just turned her face away, ignoring him and not speaking to him.
As much as he tried to talk to her, she pretended not to hear him.
Gradually, Albina was tired and sleepy. Before squinting, she heard Miguel let out a sad and helpless sigh.
But she didn’t have time to think much about it, and it didn’t take long for her to fall asleep.
She didn’t know why she had been so sleepy these days. She thought it must be because the day was too hot, and she couldn’t bring herself to do anything.
After the disappearance of the two, the Santangel Family and the Eagle Family exhausted all their means sending almost everyone to look for them, and they only discovered that Miguel’s car left Sogen City and disappeared through the back roads.
In the end they only found an empty car.
That night, Umberto did not return to the Santangel Family for fear that Sergio would worry, and the Santangels lied to him that the two had returned to Albina’s house.
It was already late at night. By this time, the Aguila’s, Camilo, and the Santangels were gathered at Albina’s house.
There was also Santiago, who had slept for a few hours and woke up from his drunkenness.
He knew that it was during the time Umberto and Camilo were taking care of him when he was drunk that he took Albina.
So Santiago was plunged into guilt. Even if the Santangel Family didn’t blame him, he knew that most of it was his fault.
This womanizer had finally learned the consequences of drunkenness.
He also sent people to find out the whereabouts of Miguel and Albina, but in the end he came up empty-handed.
Santiago was sitting in front of Umberto at that moment, his heart full of anxiety, guilt and worry.
In the past, when Umberto and Camilo, and even the Barrios Family, had asked him to temper his temper, he had not taken it seriously, but now he truly understood that sometimes his capriciousness could lead to big problems.
If he had not been drunk, Umberto would have stayed by Albina’s side and Miguel would have been watched by Camilo, and none of this would have happened.
But neither the Santangel Family nor the Eagle Family had noticed his discomfort. At that moment, Olivia was glaring fiercely at the Aguila’s.
Umberto and Camilo got along well, as did the Santangel Family and the Eagle Family, so Olivia had always had a good impression of Camilo. But because of Miguel’s behavior, Olivia now had a very bad impression of the Eagle Family.
Miguel and Camilo’s father kept apologizing to the Santangel Family, promising that they would definitely find Miguel.
Miguel’s mother, on the other hand, seemed a bit stunned and mumbled:
-Miguel behaves so well – how could he have done something like that?
Umberto immediately interrupted her:
-Mrs. Eagle, I’ve been meaning to ask you something for a while now. Do you really think Miguel is behaving well?