Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

“They? Anyone else besides President Galvez?” asked Estrella Berrocal, taking the opportunity to change the subject, hooking her small hand around his neck.

Adán Rouco tightened his slender waist: “Mateo Gálvez called with Nico Amengual”.

Estrella Berrocal blushed, punched him in the shoulder with a clenched fist and said, “Why do you call me a lion? Do you always tell them I have a bad temper?”Text content © NôvelDrama.Org.

Isn’t he a lion of the easily angered kind?

The man raised his big, bony hand and ran it through his hair, saying in a low, muffled voice, “I thought the little lion was cute, so I let them call me that.”

Pretty?

Estrella Berrocal seemed to have discovered a new world, it was the first time she heard the word “Precious” in Adán Rouco’s mouth, her ears blushed. “So you called the family dog Lion Pups on purpose?”

The man growled softly, “What’s a lion cub if he nearly bit me when I first brought him home and teased him a few times?”

Estrella Berrocal burst out laughing: “Well, what a daring little dog, he’s not afraid of being killed!

“She’s not so reckless because she’s sure I’m not going to do anything to her?”.

As she said this, Adán Rouco looked at her with such a burning gaze that Estrella Berrocal’s heart skipped a beat and her smile suddenly froze.

It was clear that he was referring to a puppy, but why did it seem to him that he was referring to her?

What did Adán Rouco mean by this double entendre, did he already suspect her?

When he said nothing, Estrella Berrocal played dumb and grabbed his hand, opened her mouth and bit his finger, leaving a line of pressure marks, and said with a playful smile, “You called her a lion cub, of course I did!”

Adán Rouco looked at the neat line of indentations on his finger and Estrella Berrocal, thinking he was angry, tried to tilt her head to look at his downcast face as she was gathered into the man’s arms.

Adán Rouco kissed her firmly on the lips.

Estrella Berrocal blushed and her hands were nowhere to be seen, so Adán Rouco grabbed them and put them around her neck.

“Why are you kissing me all of a sudden?”.

His thin lips, still lightly pressed against hers, the man’s dark eyes were dark as he looked down at her wavy, slightly red lips and murmured, “The lion cub bit me, and I can’t bite back?”

Estrella Berrocal’s face turned red.

He said it so quietly, and what he said was clearly not a love story, but why, his heart burst like a chocolate explosion.

…

Adán Rouco finished working in half an hour, so Estrella Berrocal sat on the couch next to him, playing with her phone while she waited for Adán Rouco to finish working with her.

His phone rang and it was Jonathan Tasis, who hung up without answering.

Jonathan Tasis must have been urging her to steal the chip.

Thinking about it gave him a pang of irritation.

He looked at Adán Rouco and his mind was filled with mixed feelings.

Would Adam Rouco hate her someday if he knew she had been lying to him?

But what if he hated her? She hated him for killing her father, didn’t she?

I could only count on him, but not on his heart.

…

When Adán Rouco finished working, Estrella Berrocal went with him to the nursery to pick up Paulita and take her back to Las Villas of Repulse Bay.

Santino Yepes picked up the lion cub from La Villa Rouco and Paulita was so happy to see him jump when she entered the house that she ran to play with him on the sofa.

“Dad, it looks like the lion cub has lost weight! Let’s leave the lion cub here with us! I’ll take good care of the lion cubs.”

Adán Rouco was fine with that and responded in a soft voice.

Estrella Berrocal approached her, “Paulita, you like puppies, don’t you?”.

Paulita smiled, “Estrella and Papa won’t give me a little brother or sister, so I have to play with the lion cubs!”.

“…”

Estrella Berrocal’s face grew hot, and when she looked up silently, she met the smoldering gaze of Adán Rouco, the man looking down at her, his thin lips curved in a playful smile.

Estrella Berrocal’s scalp tingled, he didn’t want to have children too, did he?

While Adán Rouco went upstairs to work in his studio, Estrella Berrocal was in the kitchen preparing dinner when Paulita crept upstairs with the lion cub in her arms.

“Dad!”

Adán Rouco looked out and saw the little girl running towards him, stopped what he was doing and took her in his arms.

“Well, what is it?”.

“Daddy, when is Estrella going to have a baby brother and sister in her tummy?”.

Adán Rouco pinched Paulita’s nose: “So anxious?”.

Paulita said simply, “Dad, didn’t you say that if you make Estrella drink grapefruit juice every morning, Estrella will have little babies?”

“But this will take time, and when it does, Dad will share the good news with you.”

“If Estrella has a baby, you must be the first to tell Paulita, Dad!”.

Adán Rouco rubbed the little girl’s head, “It’s a secret between you and daddy.”

Paulita nodded her chin earnestly, “Yes! I won’t tell Estrella that secret!”.

“Go play.”

After Paulita took the little lion out of the studio, a dark glint shone under Adam Rouco’s deep black eyes.

The phone rang, caller ID, Santino Yepes.

Pick up the phone.

“Chief, I have reviewed all the records of La Empresa Berrocal and I have discovered that the Rouco Group is involved in the bankruptcy of La Empresa Berrocal. …”

…

After hanging up the phone, Adán Rouco played with the chip in his hand.

So the only reason she approached him was for revenge?

That moonlit night on Beach Island, when he had come back from the dead to stand before her and she had embraced him with such emotion and joy, was she also pretending?

Was she faking it when she waited for him in the rain in front of the Civil Registry after he missed his appointment?

Adán Rouco closed his eyes slightly and his hand, which held the chip, tensed.

The phone rang again, this time from Nico Amengual.

When she picked up the phone, Nico Amengual asked her playfully, “Have you tried the method I told you about? Is your lion cub pregnant yet?”.

“Are you sure it works?”.

“Of course, Micaela hid the pill from me after each incident so as not to delay the shooting, and I specifically asked the doctor, who said that the way to make the pill ineffective was to drink a lot of grapefruit juice after taking her pill, which would greatly cut off the effect of the pill, and as a result, I kept an eye on Micaela for a month of drinking grapefruit juice, and Micaela got pregnant.”

…

Estrella Berrocal made dinner and went upstairs to call Adán Rouco for dinner.

“Adam, it’s dinner time, you can eat before work.”

She approached and Adán Rouco’s dark eyes looked at her with a sullen gesture. Estrella Berrocal was so frightened by the look that she unconsciously touched her face: “Why are you looking at me like that? Do I have something dirty on my face?”.

The man led her over to the desk and his hands suddenly reached under her skirt …

Estrella Berrocal was shocked and with a hot little face stopped him, “Paulita is still waiting for us to go to dinner…”

Why had he suddenly gotten in the mood?

Seeing his sullen and cold face, Estrella Berrocal thought he was a little angry that she had rejected him, so she hugged his neck and approached him a little shyly, “Wait until after dinner…. OK?”

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