Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

As Christmas approached, Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal were finally discharged from the hospital after more than half a month there.

On the day of his discharge, Fresco Rouco went to the hospital.

When Adam Rouco saw Fresco Rouco, there was a cold glint in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed it.

Naturally, Fresco Rouco knew he shouldn’t have come, but he just smiled and said, “Estrella came to see me several times when I was in the hospital, and I came to see you when you were discharged.”

Estrella Berrocal, who was already not very thoughtful, and who had a good view of Fresco Rouco, could not imagine that there was any other reason for the attentions he paid her.

She simply felt that her second uncle was as close to her as she had ever seen him.

“Second Uncle, you are not well and you came to see Adam and me at the hospital on such a cold day, thank you very much.”

He was Roberto Rouco, who did not come as often as Fresco Rouco.

So it was only natural that Estrella Berrocal was grateful.

When they left the hospital, Santino Yepes drove the car to the hospital entrance and Adán Rouco put his arm around Estrella Berrocal and got into the car first, but she refused to get in.

Estrella Berrocal asked him, “Aren’t you going to get in the car?”.

“Wait for me in the car, I’m going to chat with my second uncle.”

Estrella Berrocal nodded.

Adán Rouco got into the black Lincoln that belonged to Fresco Rouco.

The two men sat in the back seat and Fresco Rouco pursed his lips, pulled out a kraft paper bag and handed it to him.

“The results of the comparison are in.”

Adán Rouco’s deep, cold eyes stared at the kraft paper bag and did not pick it up for quite a while.

Fresco Rouco let out a sigh and said, “If you don’t want to see…”

Before the words were out of his mouth, Adán Rouco had reached out and snatched the kraft paper bag right out of his hand.

He wanted to see it for himself.

He opened the kraft paper bag with great speed and, as always, his fingers untied it with great dexterity, pulling out the DNA report inside.

Even his fingers, which held the report, began to tremble slightly.

He stared at the report for a long, long time, so long that his palms began to sweat as he clenched the paper.

Fresco Rouco finally spoke: “As I said, I am sure that Estrella is my daughter, but rest assured that I will keep the secret, even the coffin.

Adán Rouco kept a long silence, neither joy nor sorrow could be heard in his voice, it was as calm as this cold sky, without a single rise or fall in temperature, “Who else knows about this?”

“Other than me, only your second aunt knows.”

Adán Rouco dropped the report, his jaw tensed into a rigid line as he pursed his thin lips and stepped straight out of the car.

When he was back in the black Bentley, Adán Rouco ordered: “Drive, go home”.

Estrella Berrocal, seeing that he did not look well, asked him quietly, “Why did you look so unhappy the last two times you talked to your second uncle?”

“Business.

A single word about business was enough for Estrella Berrocal not to want to probe any further.

As the black Bentley approached the hospital entrance, the car stopped and the windows were rolled down.Original from NôvelDrama.Org.

The doorman saw Adán Rouco and suddenly smiled: “Hello Mr. Adán”.

Adán Rouco handed him a BLUE, and when the doorman glanced at the BLUE, the smile on his face widened, “Mr. Adán, I’ll take a pack of cigarettes so expensive, what I gave you the other day was just a pack of Rubio cigarettes.”

“Take it.”

“Thank you, then.”

After the black Bentley left the hospital, Estrella Berrocal leaned over and said, “What a loser.”

Adam Rouco’s not-so-good mood was greatly improved by this exclamation, and he raised an eyebrow and looked at her with lowered eyes, “You say who’s a loser?”

“You, look at you, you have exchanged a BLUE for a pack of Rubio cigarettes, if the janitor told anyone, he would think that you don’t know how to do math and that you are very sick in the head”.

He looked at her quiet little face and remembered the day he learned of her identity from Fresco Rouco and was thrown into a state of emotional turmoil.

He stood at the base of the hospital wall with the pack of Rubio cigarettes, smoking one after another, taking puffs, as if that would calm his anxiety.

But it was only anxiety and anguish, because as long as she was still with him, what did her life matter?

At the thought of this, Adán Rouco’s eyes suddenly tinged with a touch of affection and warmth.

Estrella Berrocal looked up to see his handsome face in a better mood. “Wasn’t that a dark face a moment ago, why are you better now?”.

Adán Rouco reached out his long arms and took her in his arms, Estrella Berrocal leaned on his shoulder and listened to his deep, magnetic voice, “It’s a relief to have lost my fortune.”

“…”

The corners of Estrella Berrocal’s mouth twitched and she sighed inwardly, Adán Rouco was still a real loser.

However, when he is in a bad mood, the easiest and most brutal way is to disperse his wealth.

…

After being discharged from the hospital, Adán Rouco spent a few more days at Estrella Berrocal’s home, recovering.

In the afternoons, Estrella Berrocal would take a bath and lie on her back reading a book while Adán Rouco sat on the edge of the bed with a towel to dry her damp hair.

Estrella Berrocal muttered, “You’re not going to work for days, will the people at work say I’m a redhead?”

“As far as you’re concerned, you’re far from a redhead, let alone a wimp.”

Estrella Berrocal growled and turned her head towards him, “Are you saying I’m not pretty enough?”.

Adam Rouco cupped her chin with his long fingers and looked at her left and right, really scrutinizing her white face for a while before concluding, “Not pretty enough to be a woman, not pretty enough to be a woman, but not pretty enough to be a woman.”

Three crows flew over Estrella Berrocal’s head.

“Do I look that ordinary?”

Any woman likes good words, even if they are not true, they love to hear them.

Estrella Berrocal sullenly threw down her book and crawled off to sleep.

Adán Rouco grabbed her slender ankles and pulled her petite body into his arms.

Estrella Berrocal shouted in surprise: “What?

Adam Rouco’s thin lips, pressed against his temple, spoke in a muted voice: “But I have never seen a more beautiful woman than you.”

In the future, probably no prettier than her.

Estrella Berrocal was slightly stunned, reacting to the fact that he was talking about love, and laughed: “Who talks about love like that?”.

“It is said to be twice as much cash.” Said the man looking at her seriously.

Estrella Berrocal was annoyed and amused, “Who taught you that lousy method!”.

Adam Rouco kissed her little face and earlobe, his hot breath teasing her. “It’s a method not taught…”

Estrella Berrocal’s ears tickled from the heat and she twisted her neck, still “teaching,” “I don’t like love talk, it’s a confidence breaker …. ”

“So what do you like?”

“It must be said that you are already beautiful, and in my heart you are even more so.”

Adán Rouco kissed her, laughed lightly and teased, “It’s already against your heart to tell one lie, to tell two at once, Estrella, isn’t that asking too much?”

Estrella Berrocal spat blood, her adolescent heart instantly vanished.

Did he mean to say that she was not the prettiest in his heart?

Uncomfortable.