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Estrella Berrocal relaxed just a little after taking Paulita out of La familia Rouco and away from Jerold Rouco.

After dropping Paulita off at daycare, Estrella Berrocal immediately called Esteban Zaragosa.

“Doctor Esteban, Jerold Rouco returned to La familia Rouco, he returned as Adam and now nobody in La familia Rouco knows who he is.”

Esteban Zaragosa pursed his lips and said, “Jerold Rouco was sure he would not risk blowing his cover, he came back to replace Adán.”

Estrella Berrocal took a deep breath and gently shook her head, “I don’t know what to do, I’m a mess.”

“This afternoon I will intercept you in front of the Rouco Group. I want to test whether hypnotic methods can reawaken Adam’s consciousness.”

“Dr. Esteban, thank you very much.”

“No need, I’m a good friend of Adam’s, it’s the right thing to do.”

After hanging up the phone, Estrella Berrocal walked down the street alone, past a bridal store, stopped in front of the window and looked at the wedding dress hanging outside, slightly dazed for a moment.

Just as I was about to turn my head, a familiar male figure was reflected in the glass of the shop window.

Estrella Berrocal frowns and turns to look, “Iván Martínez, what are you doing here?”.

Ivan Martinez smiles slightly and says, “I thought we would never see each other again, Estrella, it’s been a long time, you’ve lost a lot of weight.”

“Have you returned to The Holy City?”.

“Yes, I saw the news that Adam Rouco had died at sea and I feared that something would happen to you if you did not think about it, in fact, I have been back in The Holy City for many days now and have been following you for a few days …”

Estrella Berrocal’s eyebrows jumped, “You … you’ve been following me for days?”

Would Iván Martínez … have found out about Jerold Rouco?

“Yes, I saw Adam Rouco come back, but … he seemed to be cold to you….. Estrella are you all right?”.

Looking as if Iván Martínez knew nothing, Estrella Berrocal relaxed and said, “I’m fine, and you, how have you been?”

“I missed you, I thought I would never come back to The Holy City, but I found I couldn’t resist and I came back with you.”

“Iván Martínez …”

Ivan Martinez interrupted her and said, “Estrella, I know we can’t go back, but I just want to make sure you’re okay.”

She pressed her lips together in a smile, what could you do with making sure she was doing well, she was doing well or she wasn’t, and there was no way she was going to get back together with him.

“I’m going home.”

Ivan Martinez spoke abruptly, “Estrella, didn’t we even get to sit down for coffee and talk?”

…

Rouco Group, President’s office.

Jerold Rouco received from Clementina Orihuela several high-resolution photos showing Estrella Berrocal on a date with another man.

Jerold Rouco’s thin lips curved, this Estrella Berrocal was really interesting, pretending to be in love with Adán Rouco while having a private affair with another man.

Xu Kun pushed his way in, “Boss, the president wants you to go to his office.”

Jerold Rouco emitted an indifferent “hmm”, got up and headed for Roberto Rouco’s office.

When they arrived at Roberto Rouco’s office, they talked business for a while.

Jerold Rouco said, “Dad, I don’t know if you’ve noticed anything strange about Estrella lately.”

Roberto Rouco wondered: “A difference? Is it a bad reaction to pregnancy?

“It’s not that, it’s just that when I came back this time, I noticed that Estrella was very unresponsive to me, and last night, she was sleeping with Paulita, and I didn’t say a word to her either.”

Roberto Rouco frowned: “No, he has been in a bad mood during your accident, because he missed you, and once he lit a candle in his room for you, it almost caught fire”.

“Dad, could I have another man in mind?”.

Roberto Rouco thought it was incredible: “How can it be, she is pregnant with your child, why would she think of another man?

Jerold Rouco opened his phone and handed Roberto Rouco the pictures on his phone to look at, “I didn’t believe it either, but I had a friend who ran into Estrella at a coffee shop and found her dating another man and acting intimate, dad, I didn’t want that to happen, but when it does, I think, I should be forewarned too. ”

This was said by Jerold Rouco, in a way that dripped from his mouth and had to make Roberto Rouco bow.

“That Iván Martínez, who is her ex-boyfriend, how is it that she is still in contact with her ex-boyfriend?”.

“That, I don’t know, maybe … is it that Estrella still has feelings for Iván Martínez?”.

Roberto Rouco had to be suspicious, “This, for us at The Rouco Family, is not something to be proud of, and you certainly can’t misunderstand it.”

“It’s only natural, Dad, I’ll certainly look into it, if she … cheated. She cheated …”Exclusive content from NôvelDrama.Org.

Roberto Rouco’s face immediately became stern: “Hmph, if he really did it. If he cheated, we at The Rouco Family will not allow it.”

Jerold Rouco’s eyes had a cold, calculating look in them.

Estrella Berrocal’s expulsion from La familia Rouco was only her first step.

…

In mid-afternoon, Esteban Zaragosa told Estrella Berrocal to wait at the medical base and that he would soon bring Jerold Rouco there for treatment.

It was only when Esteban Zaragosa brought the man that Estrella Berrocal’s anxious heart dropped.

Jerold Rouco was unconscious while Esteban Zaragosa and Estrella Berrocal helped him into the medical base.

“He will wake up in ten minutes, we will start with the hypnosis method.”

“Hmm.”

Esteban Zaragosa helped Jerold Rouco lie down in the hypnosis chair and turned on the equipment.

Half an hour passed and Jerold Rouco was successfully hypnotized by Esteban Zaragosa, with his eyes closed and apparently lost in memory.

“Adam? What did you see?”

Estrella Berrocal tried to call him, but she was afraid of interrupting Esteban Zaragosa’s treatment of Adán Rouco, so she put out her hand and covered her mouth, red-eyed.

The man, leaning back in the hypnotic chair with his eyes closed, slowly began, “Analena Lozada fell into the sea and I tried to save her, but Jonathan Tasis and I looked for her for a long, long time and we could not find her … It was my fault, I shouldn’t have taken Analena Lozada to Beach Island …”

“It’s not your fault Analena Lozada died and you didn’t know the weather at sea would get so bad.”

…

Two hours have passed and Adán Rouco’s memory is still stuck at twenty-two years old.

Esteban Zaragosa stopped hypnotizing the memories and the man in the hypnosis chair had passed out.

“Doctor Esteban, will Adam be the one to wake up next?”.

Esteban Zaragosa shook his head and said, “Adam’s memories are stuck in the year Analena Lozada died, that is, his consciousness is stuck in the year he was twenty-two, and Jerold Rouco began to appear around that time.”

“You mean Adam got caught up in the guilt he felt for Analena Lozada in the first place and that’s why he imagined Jerold Rouco’s personality and attempted suicide?”

“That’s right, he is now imprisoned by his guilt over Analena Lozada and we have to find a way for him to forgive himself.”

Estrella Berrocal looked at the sleeping man, frowning, “But Analena Lozada is still alive, why hasn’t she forgiven herself?”

“It’s hard to eradicate a heart disease once it has set in, if that accident hadn’t happened, you might not have seen Jerold Rouco in his life, but it turns out that Adam was in a car accident and fell into the sea, it was Analena Lozada who fell into the void in the first place, so it’s very likely that spurred him on, who was seriously injured at the time. ”

Esteban Zaragosa frowned slightly, finding all this, too casual, “Adam’s car accident, could it not have been an accident?”

Estrella Berrocal’s heart leapt as she remembered that day and said, “On Christmas morning, Adam was going to work at the Rouco Group, but when you go from The Villas at Repulse Bay to the office, you don’t even go over the Bohai Bridge, why would Adam suddenly go to the Bohai Bridge?”