Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Roberto Rouco blames himself when he learns of Adán Rouco’s condition.

Along with this, embarrassment began to set in for Estrella Berrocal.

“From what Adam said, you have been the one helping Adam with his treatment all this time. ”

Estrella Berrocal nodded and said, “Dad, that’s what I should do, I’m Adam’s wife.”

The old man grabbed the tap of his cane: “Thank you for standing by Adam’s side and not letting his illness … make me understand now the real reason why he didn’t want to get married. It was all because I didn’t know him well enough and kept pushing him to get married and even blamed him for not getting along with anyone. Now, with you … by his side, he should heal a little.”

Roberto Rouco is over seventy years old and, having lost his eldest son, Oscar Rouco, the old man wishes his only son would marry and have children, a sentiment that Estrella Berrocal especially understands.

“Dad, you don’t have to blame yourself too much, I’m sure Adam will be fine.”

“Well, he’s going to be fine, stay with him, he’s going to be fine.”

The old man’s voice was a little muffled as he spoke, and Estrella Berrocal’s eyes were slightly pained.

By the time Estrella Berrocal had left the old man’s study, Adán Rouco was sitting in the living room playing a game with Paulita.

Adán Rouco, seeing the redness in her eyes, reached over, touched her delicate face with his fingertips and asked, “What did Papa say to you?”

Estrella Berrocal, however, “said nothing, dad asked me to stay with you, he blames himself for not knowing anything about your illness all these years. adam, let’s stay here for dinner tonight, then we’ll go back to The Villas at Repulse Bay. ”

“Good.”

…

After dinner, Adán Rouco returned to The Villas at Repulse Bay with Estrella Berrocal.

On the road, Adán Rouco said while driving, “I’ve been away for so long, and now that I’m back, I suddenly realize how much older my father looks.”

Estrella Berrocal turned her eyes to look at him and said comfortingly, “Yes, since your accident, it has been dad who has been supporting the whole family alone, he has already lost one son and almost lost you, although he hasn’t shed any tears in front of me, I know that when you had your accident, he was more affected than anyone else.”

“Don’t you blame Dad for treating you coldly before?” asked Adam Rouco with a faint smile.

Estrella Berrocal shook her head, “Although dad was cold to me, he had no bad intentions towards me and did nothing to separate us, so why should I blame him, dad is also angry because we cheated on him before by faking a marriage and it was something we did wrong in the first place.”

“You seem to be getting along with the old man.”

Estrella Berrocal smiled mischievously: “To be honest, I’m still pretty scared of Dad, too serious, Adam, would you say you’re that old? A serious old man?”.

Adán Rouco scoffs: “I must be a serious father-in-law when it comes to Paulita’s husband”.

“Won’t Paulita be sad if you scare away her son-in-law?”

“A son-in-law who can be scared away by me is no good, I just want to have Paulita around for the rest of my life.”

Estrella Berrocal’s funny comment: “Slave daughter!”

Estrella Berrocal touched her belly and couldn’t help but wonder if it was a boy or a girl in her belly, “Do you think it’s a boy or a girl in my belly?”

“I like girls.”

“If it’s a boy, then we will have a son and a daughter.”

Adam Rouco’s dark eyes looked deeply into her and his thin lips curved without speaking.

When we arrived at Las Villas at Repulse Bay, Estrella Berrocal went to take a shower while Adán Rouco stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window watching the night and calling Santino Yepes.

“Go investigate who this Analena Lozada, who is now with Jonathan Tasis, really is.”

“Chief, do you suspect that this Analena Lozada is a fake?”

“She was supposedly the one behind my accident in the first place.”

Santino Yepes took a breath and said, “After your accident, the president sent me to investigate the matter and the police recovered the car you were in and the brake fluid line was cut with malicious intent, boss, should I now contact the police and question Analena Lozada directly?”

“No, this matter, for the moment, will not be disclosed, and when you find out the identity of this Analena Lozada, tell me immediately.”

“Yes.”

After hanging up the phone, Estrella Berrocal came out of the bathroom in her pajamas with wet hair and threw her arms around his waist from behind.

She rubbed her face against his back and, seeing that he still had the phone in his hand, looked up at him with a crooked face and said, “Can we not take care of work tonight?”Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

They had been separated for a long time and she missed him.

Adán Rouco turned to her, wrapped his arms around her slender little body and lowered his head to her temple, his voice low and leisurely as he asked, “If you don’t work, what do I do?”

“Talking to me, drying my hair and cuddling me to sleep.”

Estrella Berrocal leans back with a slightly red face and speaks loudly.

Adán Rouco leaned in slightly and caught her in a cross-legged embrace, “As you wish, Mrs. Rouco. ”

“It’s going to fall… put me down…”

Adán Rouco carried her to the bed and sat her in his arms, the man’s dark eyes looking at her with deep emotion as he took the dryer aside and carefully blew the damp strands of her hair.

Estrella Berrocal tilted her head and rubbed her chin against his chest, her watery eyes staring at him as she said, “I have something I want to discuss with you.”

“Hmm?”

“Can you make a deal with Jerold Rouco that next time, even if he goes out again, he won’t kiss other women?”.

Adán Rouco raised an eyebrow: “Jealous?”.

“Even though that was Jerold Rouco, what he used, though, was still your body, okay?”

Adán Rouco dried her hair, put down the dryer and, looking at her with such seriousness, was encouraged for a moment to lower his gaze and kiss her on the lips.

Estrella Berrocal tilted her head back to take it in, in response.

Fiery kisses that warm each other’s hearts.

Adán Rouco leaned gently on his forehead and said softly, “If I could, I’d rather he never showed up.”

“We will definitely heal.”

Once in bed and asleep, after Adán Rouco turned off the lamp on one side, Estrella Berrocal refused to close her eyes and kept looking at his face.

Adán Rouco reached out and pulled her further into his arms, asking in a tired voice, “What’s the matter, aren’t you tired of looking at me all the time?”

“I’m afraid that if I close my eyes, you’ll leave again.”

Adán Rouco kissed her temple: “Go to sleep, be a good girl, it’s not good for pregnant women to stay up late, I won’t miss it”.

“Adam, on the seventh day of your accident, I lit candles in this house and set the curtains on fire, almost drying them in a blaze. I felt really useless at times, that you were gone and there was nothing I could do but wait for you to come back in the silliest way possible.”

Her soft, subdued tone made Adán Rouco’s heart flutter.

Adán Rouco asked in a low voice: “Why do you want to light a candle?”.

“I used to hear elders say that when a person dies and lights a room full of candles on the seventh day of the first month, the soul of the one who died will come back to see their loved ones.”

Adam Rouco’s eyes sank and he hugged her with a low sigh, “What a silly thing to say.”

In the heart, a very hot, very warm current seeps in.

“I didn’t used to believe in these superstitions, but I thought maybe you’d really come back.”

“Aren’t you afraid that if I die, it will be my soul that comes back? Wouldn’t that be horrible?”

Estrella Berrocal pouted, “Whatever you’ve become, I don’t feel horrible for you, what horrifies me is the fear that you’ll never come back.”