Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Cold, so cold…

The cold waters of the sea, enveloping her.

She seems to be hallucinating, she hears Adam calling her …

Adam, are you back?

The body, which had sunk downward, was lifted in a trance by a pair of strong arms.

She felt it hard to breathe, but moments later, her lips were kissed by a soft, thin lip, and the other person continued to breathe.

Adán Rouco, is that you?

…

“Star, wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Don’t go to sleep! Star, wake up!”

Adán Rouco maintained Estrella Berrocal with chest compressions, but Estrella Berrocal was unable to spit out the seawater she had choked on.

Adán Rouco’s voice trembled as his eyes reddened with impatience, “Drive faster!”.

Santino Yepes put the pedal to the metal and the black Maybach drove off into the darkness.

“Chief, take it easy, you’re almost at the hospital!”

“Estar Berrocal! Wake up!”

Adán Rouco did not know how many chest compressions before Estrella Berrocal finally spit out the mouthful of seawater she had choked on.

“Cough, cough, cough…, cough, cough…”

As I slowly opened my eyelids, a familiar face was reflected in the blurry, shifting vision before me.

“Adam …”

He smiled wanly, he must be hallucinating …

How is it possible that Jerold Rouco, currently engaged to Clementina Orihuela, is before her eyes?

The body, however, was wrapped in an embrace and held tightly.

“Star, sorry I’m late.”

Estrella Berrocal’s eyes were dripping with tears, she was unconscious and her voice was weak, “It’s so good … I dreamed of you again … Adam … … I’m so tired … I wanted to stop Jerold Rouco from getting engaged to Clementina Orihuela … but I was too tired… … my stomach hurts… I can’t run anymore…”

“Don’t talk.”

The man’s thin lips, pressed against her temple, murmured tenderly, “We’ll soon be at the hospital, it won’t hurt, be good, be patient, we’ll be there soon.”

Estrella Berrocal was so tired that although she tried to look at the illusive Adán Rouco for a few more moments, her eyelids were drawn together from exhaustion.

The man looked at her small, pale face and called to her softly and gently, “Estrella, Estrella?”

…

Estrella Berrocal was wheeled to the resuscitation room.

Adán Rouco stood guard outside the resuscitation room and pounded his fist hard on the hospital wall.

His fist was bleeding, but he felt no pain.

Esteban Zaragosa approached him and said reassuringly, “This is not all your fault either, don’t blame yourself too much.”

Adam Rouco closed his eyes deeply and said, “Jerold Rouco may come back later and hurt Estrella again and again, I thought about not messing with anyone, not getting married, but I was selfish when Estrella came into my life.”

Although it was Jerold Rouco who injured Estrella Berrocal, he had to admit that Jerold Rouco was part of his body and his conscience and could not avoid his responsibility.

Esteban Zaragosa pursed his lips, “In the past, your other personalities, if they appeared, did so for a short time and you returned to normal after passing out, but this time, Jerold Rouco replaced you almost directly and became the master personality of your body. adam, Jerold Rouco is getting stronger, so be careful. ”

Adán Rouco’s fists are clenched tightly, his knuckles blue and white.

He was out of the resuscitation room for an unknown period of time when the attending physician finally left.

For a moment, Adán Rouco was afraid to approach him and ask him.

I didn’t think I was going to have a day of cowardice like that.

“Doctor, how is my wife?”

The doctor placed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and sighed, “Mrs. Rouco’s progesterone is low, and with the irritation and bleeding, even if the baby is saved by the skin of her teeth, if she gets depressed and irritated some more, she could easily miscarry. She has to be very well cared for and nothing else should happen.”

Adán Rouco took a breath, held it in his chest, and finally, slowly, let it out in a long, slow sigh.

The dust has finally settled on that hanging heart.

Estrella Berrocal was taken to the VIP room and Adán Rouco remained for a long time in front of the door, not daring to enter.

Esteban Zaragosa asked, “Aren’t you going in to see her?”.

“I want to ask you something.”

“What is it?”

“Have Dulcina Calvo come and watch Estrella for a while.”

Esteban Zaragosa frowned: “And you?”.

“I’m going back to the Medlab with you to get treated, and until I get treated, I …”

Esteban Zaragosa interrupted him: “What if the deal is still bad? Are you going to keep missing Estrella Berrocal?”.

Adam Rouco’s eyes darkened and he said in a deep voice, “Even if it was Jerold Rouco who hurt Estrella, Jerold Rouco is one of my personalities and I can’t shirk my responsibility, Jerold Rouco doesn’t know when he will be out again and you tying me to the Medlab is the best you can do.”

…

Before Adán Rouco left, he entered the room and sat next to Estrella Berrocal.

With one large, slender hand, he took her small hand and placed a deep kiss on her ring finger, where she wore her wedding ring.

The sleeping Estrella Berrocal was a little restless, her brow furrowed and just as Adán Rouco got up to leave, she suddenly grabbed his hand, “Adán don’t go…”

Adam Rouco lowered his dark eyes to the helpless little hand and finally, with a hard heart, pulled it away from her.

…

“Adam …”

“Adam …”

“Adam…!”

Estrella Berrocal’s eyes snapped open and what she reached out to grasp was Dulcina Calvo’s hand.

Dulcina Calvo asked her with concern, “Estrella, did you have a nightmare?”.

Estrella Berrocal unconsciously looked toward the door, which was empty.

“It’s really my hallucination…”

“Star, what are you talking about?”

Estrella Berrocal shook her head bitterly as disjointed memories flooded into her mind all at once, and she remembered falling overboard and the boy …

Reaching out, he unconsciously touched his lower back.

Dulcina Calvo reassured her: “Estrella, don’t worry, the baby is fine, he is preserved! But the doctor says that you should recover well next and not receive any more stimuli”.

“Who … saved me?”

Was it Jerold Rouco? But how could Jerold Rouco, that bastard who hated her and wanted her to disappear, have saved her?

“Er … yes, I saved you with the demon Esteban! Don’t you remember? When the demon Esteban and I went to your house, we found you missing and with signs of a struggle in the house, so we assumed it was possible that Jerold Rouco and Clementina Orihuela had sent someone to kidnap you. Luckily we arrived just in time, otherwise the consequences would have been unthinkable!”

“Is it true that you and Dr. Esteban saved me?”

Is it really… not Adam?

So, all those “Star” he heard were just his hallucinations?

“Yes, yes! Star, you just woke up, I’m going to get you a doctor!”

When Dulcina Calvo went out to call the doctor, she secretly called Esteban Zaragosa.

“Tutor, it’s obvious that Adán Rouco is back, why don’t you let me tell Estrella?”.

“That’s what Adam wants, because none of us can be sure when Jerold Rouco will show up again, and if Jerold Rouco hurts Estrella Berrocal again, no one will be able to bear the consequences. Berrocal.”

“But … but what Estrella needs most right now is not me or anyone else, what she needs most is Adán Rouco!”.

…

The doctor examined Estrella Berrocal and checked that all was well before she left.

Inside the VIP room there was a television and Dulcina Calvo feared that Estrella Berrocal was in a bad mood, so she turned it on to try to distract Estrella Berrocal.From NôvelDrama.Org.

But when the television was turned on, it was La Ciudad Santa TV, which was broadcasting a news item –

“At 5 p. m. yesterday, Rouco Group CEO Adan Rouco suddenly disappeared from his engagement party! The engagement party is announced as postponed …”

Dulcina Calvo rushed to try to change stations but was stopped by Estrella Berrocal: “Isn’t Jerold Rouco engaged to Clementina Orihuela? Where has he gone?”

“I … I don’t know, Jerold Rouco is very scheming, who knows what he is thinking, will he come up with some new plan?”

Estrella Berrocal’s brow furrowed: “But where did he go?”.

Jerold Rouco’s body, after all, was Adam Rouco’s and he could not stop worrying about it.

“Dulcina, could you ask Dr. Esteban to send someone to look for Jerold Rouco?”

Estrella Berrocal grabbed his hand with one hand and pleaded with him.

Dulcina Calvo saw how worried and anxious I was and could no longer contain herself: “I can’t help it! I’m going to tell you! I can’t stand it that you can’t see each other when you’re so much in love! Fuck Jerold Rouco!”

“What, what do you mean?”

“Adán Rouco is back! Adán Rouco saved you last night when you fell into the sea”.

Estrella Berrocal’s heart gave a click: “So, where is he?”.

“He was afraid Jerold Rouco would hurt him if he showed up again, so he went back to the Medlab with Esteban Zaragosa to get treated!”

…

In Medical Laboratory.

Adán Rouco is lying on the bed, covered with stickers with instrument data.

Esteban Zaragosa stands in front of several curved computer screens, observing the body data of Adán Rouco.

“I have a bold idea, if we can’t eradicate Jerold Rouco, then we will do a multiple personality fusion, but even a personality fusion is a very long healing process. By the way, how did you show up yesterday?”

Adán Rouco recalls the night before and says, “It seems like I was sleeping for a long, long time and I vaguely heard that something had happened to Estrella and I was so worried and distressed that I ended up going out.”

“So, something happened to Estrella Berrocal and it irritated your nerves and that’s why you regained consciousness?”

Esteban Zaragosa looks at a large pile of sophisticated data and is lost in thought.

“Could it be that … Analena Lozada is not the key to your personality switch, and that the real key that would stimulate you to activate your personality switch mechanism is Estrella Berrocal?”

“That year, after Analena Lozada’s death, it has become a mess and the memories of that year are very vague for me because many times it was other personalities who performed that year.”

Esteban Zaragosa’s brow furrowed further, “I remember you saying that Estrella Berrocal spent some time with one of you and that she was nice, that personality, who was she?”

That personality must not be Jerold Rouco.

The doors of the Medical Laboratory open suddenly and slowly.

Estrella Berrocal and Dulcina Calvo, who arrived in a hurry.

Estrella Berrocal caught a glimpse of Adán Rouco, who was being cared for on a technology bed.

With a single glance, she could be sure that at that moment, lying there, he must have been her Adam.

Hot tears, all at once, slid down the eyes.

Esteban Zaragosa stood up, unhooked all the micro-instruments from Adán Rouco’s body and said, “Have a good chat.”

Dulcina Calvo was removed by Esteban Zaragosa from the back of the neck.

Estrella Berrocal took a step forward, her watery eyes lingering on Adán Rouco, tears, clouding her vision.

Until, upon reaching the man, Adam Rouco raised his hand, gently wiped away his tears with his fingers, smiled even slightly in his face and said, “It’s been a long time, my Star. “