Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

The pitiful, helpless look on her face, confined beneath him, annoyed and disgusted Adán Rouco, but he also had the feeling that his heart was tugging at his mouth.

Was he only by her side because of Paulita?

Adán Rouco stared into those watery eyes for quite a while before releasing her, pursing his lips and saying nonchalantly, “If you want to clear things up with me, what do you think people will think if you walk out of my office in this state of undress?”

Estrella Berrocal felt even more aggrieved and raised her hand to wipe her eyes, “I’ll just quit my job.”

“Estrella Berrocal, can you be a little more ambitious?”

Adán Rouco squeezed her slender wrist and frowned at her.

She choked out, “It’s just that I’m so unambitious, I’m such a wimp that I don’t even have the right to want to be with my own daughter!”.

“When have I ever said you don’t have the right to be with Paulita?”

This woman, did she not learn her language well when she was a child, how come she always misunderstood the meaning of her words?

“You just said…”

Estrella Berrocal was about to reply when the man interrupted her: “You are taking Paulita, that is impossible, first, I will not allow it, and second, the old man will not allow you to take Paulita”.

Estrella Berrocal snorted, “Isn’t that why you won’t let me…”

“But you can stay with the Rouco family, as Paulita’s mother.”

Estrella Berrocal was stunned, her brain fuzzy, not quite understanding the meaning of his words. “But I can’t stay with the Rouco family forever.”

Adán Rouco suddenly leaned toward her, his eyes boring into hers, “Estrella Berrocal, you don’t seem to understand our relationship.”

She was so confused that her mouth came out, “We just slept together. Friendship…”

The man’s gaze towards her became distinctly grim and cold before the words even broke off.

“What did you just say about our relationship?”

Sexual partners?

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Estrella Berrocal swallowed dryly for a few moments, surprised by his somber gesture.

Adam Rouco cupped his chin and snorted, “What, you like being a mistress so much?”

The sarcasm in his eyes was unmistakable.

“Being a mistress would at least please the gold, Estrella Berrocal, wouldn’t it?”.

What else was I going to do but defy him, disobey him, piss him off?

The man dropped his chin as if he disliked her so much that she stiffened on the couch, only to see Adán Rouco get up and bring a first aid kit.

The man sat beside her, his brow furrowed, his face cold with emotion, but his gestures unusually careful and attentive.

Adán Rouco removes the gauze from her arm: “It’s going to hurt a little, be patient”.

With these uncharitable words, the man began to clean the blood and the wound, Estrella Berrocal winced in pain and Adán Rouco did not allow her to flinch, poking her a couple of times in the center.

Estrella Berrocal cast a wary glance at the man bandaging her and, with tears of pain falling again, she sniffled and asked, “Adán Rouco, can you let me visit Paulita more often in the future, I won’t bother you and Olivia Montes and I can take Paulita out …”

This woman, what’s in her head?

“Hiss…”

There was a sudden weight on the man’s hand, and Estrella Berrocal winced.

“… Adán Rouco, can you be a little lighter?”

The man looked at her coldly, “Which side do you mean?”.

“…”

It was getting to that time of day and the man was still driving.

“Your moves of course, you’re hurting me…”

No sooner had she uttered the words than Adán Rouco’s deep, dark eyes suddenly looked at her, and as the four gazes met, what was by all accounts a perfectly normal statement became divisive.

While she cried and her little face blushed intemperately, Adán Rouco’s mood inexplicably improved, even showing signs of turning cloudy to sunny.

“Next time, I’ll be careful not to hurt you.”

The last phrase, “without hurting you,” had a deeper meaning.

“I am serious with you, you can be more patient with Paulita in the future, she is a child, she was deprived of her mother’s love when she was little, her mind is fragile, you can be less aggressive with her in the future…”

Estrella Berrocal was heartbroken every time Adán Rouco misbehaved with Paulita and she kept wiping her tears.

Adán Rouco now felt, in the eyes of this little woman, a villain who had abused the children for evil.

“Paulita has been spoiled by the old man since she was a little girl, and the more they coax her into a tantrum, the louder she gets. I was just being mean to her because I wanted to tell her that he was making her get the shot because she had a high fever and she didn’t understand, so I was being mean to her. If I was going to convince her at that point, she would just cry more and get more aggressive.”

Estrella Berrocal froze for a few seconds, “So, you were just educating her?”.

And not be mean to your Paulita for having little patience?

Adán Rouco bandaged her wounds, her body curled up and stared at her with impenetrable eyes. “Paulita is not only your daughter, but also mine, and I don’t want her to be a spiteful and capricious child.”

Even more than she did, he cared about Paulita.

Of course, Paulita has her genes, she is intelligent and wise, and surely she will not be a difficult and capricious child. Paulita is a daughter, and Adán Rouco usually spoils her, but there are things that have to be taught, and Adán Rouco does not hold back, and when you have to be tough, you also have to get red in the face.

At the moment, Estrella Berrocal’s brain cleared up a lot and she lowered her face slightly, apologizing a little: “I’m sorry, I misunderstood you. Because I thought you would like Dante better, so be nice to Paulita…”

“Being nice to Dante is because I feel guilty about my older brother, but I don’t think I’ve ever been nicer to Dante than to Paulita in any way.”

Paulita had practically been raised by him, but he had never raised Dante, he was just Dante’s uncle.

She bit her lip, “So, then I’m relieved.”

He couldn’t have been nicer to Paulita.

Adán Rouco did not know whether to look at her with amusement or with good humor: “What are you relieved about?

Are you relieved enough to leave him and Paulita?

“Even if you later officially get together with Olivia Montes, you wouldn’t hold back your love for Paulita, would you?”.

Adán Rouco stared at her tear-stained little face for a long moment before speaking softly, “Estrella Berrocal, I see you have half flour and half water in your head.”

“…”

What he meant was that his brain was mush!

“When did I ever say I wanted to be with Olivia Montes?”

“But, but you and Olivia Montes…”

The man aggressively asked, “What’s wrong with me and Olivia Montes?”

“Didn’t you have Dante in the first place because you loved …”

Adán Rouco’s brow furrowed: “What did you say?

So she had always thought that Dante was his and Olivia Montes’ son?

Estrella Berrocal, still not realizing what she had said, looked at him with open lips, “Dante, isn’t that your son with Olivia Montes?”.