Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Did the old man already know about his fake marriage?

The first thing that came to Estrella Berrocal’s mind was Olivia Montes’ revelation that she had known for some time that she and Adán Rouco were pretending to be husband and wife, but why did she tell the gentleman only at that moment?

Seeing their silence, the old man’s anger flared and he banged his cane on the ground several times, scolding, “Are you fools? Don’t you dare speak?”

Just as Estrella Berrocal was trying to explain herself, Adán Rouco suddenly spoke quietly, in a calm, firm voice: “Dad, Estrella and I are trying to get married.”

A trial marriage?

Adán Rouco, if you keep talking to me, I’ll break your legs”.

Adán Rouco continued methodically: “Estrella is Paulita’s mother, no one can change that. it was a trial marriage”.

The old man scoffed, “What a nice thing to say, what are you going to do if you don’t think it’s right in the end?”

“If it doesn’t work out, we won’t get married.”

“And the baby?”

Adán Rouco was silent for a few seconds, and then spoke in a soft voice: “But now I have found that Estrella Berrocal and I are perfect for each other, and I am going to marry her.”

Estrella Berrocal was stunned and looked at him in surprise.

Was he being serious? Or was he just saying that to deal with the old man?

Before Estrella Berrocal could recover from her astonishment, the old man said angrily, “You’re going to marry her, and I don’t agree!”

“Dad, I’m the one marrying her, not you, and it’s none of my business if you don’t agree.”

The old man pointed at him with his fingers trembling with rage: “You … you! you! Adam Rouco! You are good! You rebellious son!”

Estrella Berrocal did not expect Adán Rouco to speak to the old man that way for her, and her little hand tugged on Adán Rouco’s sleeve, telling him to speak more politely.

But the old man pointed to Estrella Berrocal and cursed, “If you marry her, get out of the Rouco family! She gave you Paulita as a surrogate womb three years ago for a purpose! I will not allow a woman with ulterior motives to be the mother of my granddaughter! Nor will I allow her to be the daughter-in-law of my Rouco family!”

“Dad, even if I don’t marry her, Paulita is already far away from her.”

Paulita was a precious lump in the old man’s heart, and naturally the old man didn’t want her to be sad and grieving, and using Paulita to pressure the old man was clearly grabbing the old man’s life.

“You! Adam Rouco! Cabrón!”

The old man’s face was blue and pale with anger, and his chest ached from Adam Rouco’s anger.

Adán Rouco rushed to help him, but the old man slapped him away: “You bastard! Get out of my sight.

Adán Rouco dragged Estrella Berrocal out of the studio, “Dad, you should be alone for a while, take it easy and we’ll talk later”.

The old man looked at their backs as they left, a sharp pang in his heart, his eyes turned black and he fell violently to the ground.

“Dad!”

…

Hospital, outside the emergency room.

Adán Rouco is sitting on a bench, his hands clasped as if he were contemplating something.

Estrella Berrocal approaches him and apologetically says, “I’m sorry, but if it weren’t for me, the old man wouldn’t have fainted from rage.”

“None of your business.”

Paulita sat next to Adán Rouco, her eyes wild at the big red letters “in the operating room,” and sullenly asked, “Papa, why has Grandpa fainted?”

Estrella Berrocal, knowing that Adán Rouco was in a bad mood, took Paulita in her arms and whispered, “Daddy is in a bad mood, let’s wait here for Grandpa, he’s sure to wake up.”

Paulita was smart and good, “Mmm! Grandpa will wake up for sure”.

After waiting for an unknown length of time, Olivia Montes, who had arrived in a hurry with little Dante, asked anxiously, “Adam, how is daddy now?”

Adán Rouco shook his head and said quietly, “Still in reanimation, I’m not sure of the situation.”

Olivia Montes turned the tables on Estrella Berrocal and raised her hand to give her a hard slap.

Estrella Berrocal was not prepared and was slapped hard.

Adán Rouco stood up and grabbed Olivia Montes by the wrist, asking in a cold voice, “Olivia Montes, why are you angry?”

“If it wasn’t for her, Dad would have fainted! How can she still have the face to be here?”.

Adán Rouco pulled his wrist away from Olivia Montes and grimaced, “She had nothing to do with it.”

Estrella Berrocal was already blaming herself, and when Olivia Montes said that, she was even more embarrassed, it was her fault that she had fainted. “I… I’d better go, you won’t want to see me when you wake up, Adán Rouco, I’ll come back to see … When he wakes up and is in a better mood.”

The man grabbed her wrist and pulled her to his side, frowning, “If you leave the old man will only misunderstand you more for not having a conscience.”

“But…”

The man’s large hand, caressing half of her battered face, made her cringe in pain.

Adán Rouco pursed his lips: “I’ll take you to put ice on it first”.

“Don’t. …”

Estrella Berrocal held his hand: “I’m fine, it’s better to wait here”.

Adán Rouco, seeing his stubbornness, ordered Santino Yepes: “Go get an ice pack”.

“Yes, boss.”

Olivia Montes was furious to see Adán Rouco so protective of Estrella Berrocal, “Adán, have you ever thought that if daddy doesn’t wake up …”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Before she could finish the sentence, Paulita, who was staring at Olivia Montes with two big black eyes, said, “Auntie, Daddy has said that Grandpa’s fainting has nothing to do with Estrella, and that it was wrong for Auntie to hit Estrella just now, Auntie can’t hit Estrella again, otherwise Daddy and I will be unhappy. ”

Olivia Montes gagged and clenched her fists in indignation.

Adán Rouco looked at Olivia Montes and little Dante and ordered in a cold voice: “Take little Dante and go back, I’ll take care of him here”.

“Adam, I want to stay…”

But Adán Rouco was so determined that Olivia Montes did not dare to resist and took Dante.

When Santino Yepes approached with the bag of ice, Adán Rouco took it and placed it on Estrella Berrocal’s battered face, frowning slightly. “Aren’t you going to hide?”

“I didn’t expect him to slap me right away, if I had known, I would have dodged. But I feel much better about the slap he gave me, I felt guilty, but now I feel better.”

Adam Rouco’s dark gaze was fixed on her.

At that moment the door to the operating room opened.

Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal stood up at the same time, and Paulita got up from her chair.

“Doctor, how is my father?”.

“Mr. Adam, please don’t worry, Mr. Rouco only went into shock because of a momentary mood change that prevented him from supplying air and blood, but he has already been rescued, and if there are no other problems in a few days, he can be discharged.”

Estrella Berrocal breathed a huge sigh of relief.

He dreaded to think how he would have confronted Adán Rouco if the old man had crashed in a fit of rage.

“When can we go visit him?”.

Doctor: “You can visit now, but Mr. Rouco is not awake yet, so try to enter one at a time and not disturb his old man’s rest”.

When the doctor had left, Estrella Berrocal suddenly shuddered, “Me, I’d rather not go in to visit him, if he wakes up, he’ll be irritated again if he sees me.”