This time Albina was genuinely surprised and breathed heavily, holding her stomach with a pale face.
-Lie, how is that possible!
Umberto looked serious.
-I wouldn’t joke with you about something like that. It’s true, and it’s news I just heard before I picked you up from work, and I was debating whether or not to tell you. But you asked me, and it didn’t seem like a good idea to keep it from you. Besides, you could take precautions if you knew.
Albina’s eyes filled with panic and she grabbed his arm nervously.
-I don’t care, it’s you who should take precautions.
“Jaime hates no one but Umberto and the Seco family! It was Umberto who damaged Jaime’s foot and told Alfredo that he was not the Seco family’s biological son. If Jaime gets out of jail, the person most likely to take revenge is Umberto.”
Albina’s eyes were red-rimmed with anxiety and Umberto reassured her and checked that the traffic light was green before continuing to drive smoothly.
-Don’t worry, Jaime won’t be able to do anything without the Seco family behind.
“Unless there’s an important person to help him.”
This was not said by Umberto, for fear that Albina would worry.
He was a man and had much more to offer in terms of self-protection than Albina. She was a woman and was naturally physically weaker than a man, plus being pregnant, she was an easy target for Jaime.
No one knew if this man would lose his head and do something to Albina.
-Albina, you are now the baby of the Santangel family, you can’t afford danger. Jaime is a man who likes to pick on the weak.
Albina nodded, assuring him that she would be careful.
The car was silent for a while, Albina sitting in the passenger seat, her head down and looking exasperated.
Finally, I couldn’t resist cursing.
-Not to mention Yolanda, why is Jaime here again? When they were out, I didn’t see them giving up so much of their lives, and they weren’t very righteous people. How come when they go to jail, they all become saints?
I couldn’t believe that those two would actually sacrifice their lives for others, it wasn’t in keeping with their character.
At this thought, Albina turned her head to look at Umberto.
-Do you think it’s possible that they were secretly in contact? Maybe Yolanda passed on the secret to him and he did the same trick?
-They are from a male and a female prison -Umberto spoke faintly, but his eyes sank.
“It’s logical that they weren’t in contact, but what if there was an intermediary who transmitted the message?”
Umberto didn’t think the two of them were the type to sacrifice their own lives for the greater good either. For sure they were doing those things to reduce their sentences and get out of prison sooner.
But how did they really do it?
The guards also checked and found no evidence, and the prisoner who had hidden the explosives was questioned, and had had no prior contact with Jaime.
“This is strange.”
Albina still looked a little crestfallen when the two returned to the Santangel family.
Olivia, seeing her like this, ran over to her in a very exaggerated way and pinched her little face.
-What’s the matter? Who has upset Albina? Was it Umberto? Mom will help you teach him a lesson.
Umberto followed Albina with a helpless look on his face.
-Mom, it wasn’t me. The person who upset Albina is in jail.
-Jail? -Olivia paused for a moment, with a surprised expression.
-Jaime and Yolanda.
Umberto told what had happened in jail and the expressions of the people in the Santangel family froze.
Sergio hit his cane hard on the floor.
-There is definitely something fishy about this, I’ll go and arrange for someone to investigate it carefully.
Sergio’s contacts were extensive and there were many people who had been favored by him. Daniel and Olivia nodded frantically at his words.
-Yes, we have to look into it. If we let these two out of jail, there will be no peace in our family.
“Albina is pregnant, so maybe when the two of them get out, the baby will be born too. The little child can easily be targeted by those two brutes and become the tools of their revenge, which would be a big problem.”
Umberto’s face was cold, but he did not harbor great hopes about it.
Yolanda and Jaime had been preparing for their release.
So Umberto had to get in touch with Mateo to discuss a solution, since they were now on the same side.
At this point, in prison, Yolanda was unaware that her affair with Jaime had put the Santangel family on alert.
She had been in prison for a long time, obviously not even a full year yet, but it felt like she had been there for decades, and every day was torture.
When she looked in the mirror, she also clearly saw the vicissitudes of her face.
She herself had been drugged before and had not fully recovered in all aspects of her bodily functions, and her depression in prison, coupled with the fact that she had not kept up with her diet, had left her whole body dry and thin.
She looked nothing like the glamorous woman she used to be on the party circuit.
-Yolanda.
A feminine voice came from the side, Yolanda’s somber look instantly disappeared and was replaced by a friendly smile
-Rebeca, what’s wrong?
Rebecca looked at the scars on Yolanda’s neck, her eyes were implacable and her face took on a guilty expression.
-Does the wound still hurt? I asked my brother to send me an ointment to remove the scar, the guards know your situation so they didn’t deny it, do you want to try it? -he said, handing Yolanda a tube of ointment in his hand.
When Yolanda saw the tube of ointment, surprise shone in her eyes and she took it, holding his hand with an excited expression.
-Thank you for thinking of my wound, I am really touched.
Rebecca shook his hand.
-You don’t have to thank me, if you hadn’t saved me from the fire, I’d be a corpse by now. The burns on your neck were also to save us, we owe you.
Yolanda pursed her lips, and a soft smile shone in her eyes.
-What are you talking about? I saved you all willingly, I couldn’t have watched you die in the fire. I think it was worth the scar on my neck for your lives.
Hearing this, Rebecca was quite moved, and she clutched her hand for a long time, unable to speak.
-You will almost be free. When you get out, you can look for my brother if you come across anything. My brother is quite powerful and has some influence, he should be able to help you a lot.
-Okay, I got it, thank you.
Only when the people had left did the smile disappear from Yolanda’s face, revealing the original melancholy.
It was a good cream imported from abroad, very expensive for a tube, but it works on scars.
Yolanda unscrewed the ointment and applied it bit by bit to the scar on her neck.
“These are the burns from saving them in the first place. A little scar for a chance to get out of jail and for contacts you can use, there’s no loss!”