Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

“What’s going on?”

Estrella Berrocal’s slender shoulders shrugged as soon as she heard Adán Rouco’s voice, and she looked at him with defensiveness and fear in her eyes.

Adam Rouco’s dark eyes sank.

Were you afraid of him?

Felipa explained, “Third Young Master, I don’t know what’s wrong with Third Young Grandmother, I just brought her a bowl of porridge, she didn’t eat it and suddenly she spilled it …”

Adam Rouco looked at the broken porridge bowl and the porridge of red dates and lotus seeds, took a deep breath and ordered Felipa, “Go and get another bowl.”

“Okay.”

With each step that Adán Rouco took closer to the bed, Estrella Berrocal shrank a little, until Adán Rouco sat on the edge of the bed and Estrella Berrocal was trapped in the man’s arms, unable to move back.

“Let me go! Adam Rouco I hate you! Let me go!”

She struggled desperately, but Adán Rouco wouldn’t let go, so she grabbed his hand and opened her mouth to bite the back of it, with the intention of tearing off a piece of Adán Rouco’s flesh!

But Adán Rouco did not dodge, he let her bite: “Estrella, if biting me makes you feel better, then bite harder”.

Over her head, the male voice was magnetic and soft, and Estrella Berrocal squeezed his hand, loosened her mouth slightly and began to scream, pounding her fist against her chest.

Adán Rouco looked at her tear-stained face, squeezed her little face, clasping her in his arms, lowered his head and kissed her forehead, closed his eyes and said in a mute voice: “Even if you hate me, you have to eat enough to face me, not only are you going to starve to death, but also the baby you carry in your belly.”

Estrella Berrocal’s temperament, like a fist, hitting the cotton, was almost dissolved by the sweetness of Adán Rouco.

Felipa brought a bowl of porridge and handed it to Adán Rouco, who crumpled it up, picked up a spoon and took a mouthful, placed it carefully against his thin lips and blew on it before passing it to his own.

Estrella Berrocal stared at him with bloodshot eyes and a deadly look.

“Star, do as I say and open your mouth.”

Her persuasive tone did not make Estrella Berrocal obey; instead, Estrella Berrocal slapped the bowl of porridge out of her hand and threw it on the floor.

The bowl of porridge fell to the floor and instantly fell apart, splashing Adam Rouco’s pants and legs with the soup.Property © 2024 N0(v)elDrama.Org.

Felipa startled, “Third Young Grandmother…”

Adán Rouco stared at Estrella Berrocal’s small, pale face, his tone turning cold and hard, “Felipa, bring another bowl over here!”

“Yes…”

Estrella Berrocal bit her lip and looked at him with indignation: “I’m not going to eat it!

“If you don’t want to see me, the best thing you can do is drink this bowl of porridge right now!”

Adán Rouco lost his patience and placed the bowl of porridge in his hand on the counter next to the bed, staring at her coldly and condescendingly.

Estrella Berrocal took a deep breath, raised her hand to cover her face, picked up the bowl of porridge and swallowed it quickly.

“Can you leave now that you’re done drinking? I don’t want to see you.”

Adán Rouco clenched his fists, his face cold as he copied his hands in his pockets, and, with a sober and handsome face, he indicated to Felipa: “Take good care of her”.

“Yes, Third Young Master.”

With those words, Adán Rouco left the room with a gesture of joy.

Felipa looked at the frail Estrella Berrocal in bed and sighed: “Third Young Grandmother, why are you doing this? When I arrived at the hospital this morning, I saw Third Young Master sitting on a bench outside the ward, looking tired, and I asked him why he didn’t come in to rest. Young Master, what’s wrong?”

Estrella Berrocal didn’t want to speak, she just covered herself with the sheets, her tears slid coldly onto the pillow and curled into a ball.

“Felipa, I want to be alone for a while.”

“Hey, okay, get some rest and call me if you need anything.”

…

Estrella Berrocal’s cell phone, here at Adán Rouco, rings as she leaves the hospital.

The caller ID read: Jonathan Tasis.

Adán Rouco frowns and takes it.

On the other end of the line, Jonathan Tasis asked, “Have you been to the hospital? Have you lost the baby?”

Adán Rouco coolly replied, “I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint President Jonathan.”

“Heh, looks like the plan has failed again, Adam Rouco, I have underestimated you over the years, you are quite perceptive.”

“Jonathan Tasis, yes I feel guilty about Analena Lozada, but you were an accomplice of Estrella, and that is something I will not rest on.”

“Instigate?” Jonathan Tasis laughed out loud, “President Rouco, you’re wrong, it was Estrella Berrocal who offered to work with me, and, you probably don’t know this, but that day she was in a car accident, guess if it was an accident or a man-made one?”

Adam Rouco’s dark eyes flashed, “What are you trying to say?”.

“What am I trying to say, President Rouco is very smart, don’t you know? Estrella Berrocal sent you to Lucrecia Javier’s bed and then caused a traffic accident to kill you? what is it like to be cheated on by the woman you love?”

Adán Rouco’s knuckles, holding the phone, turned hard and white.

Jonathan Tasis, on the other end of the phone, laughed even more, “Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that Estrella Berrocal has been setting you up since she went to Beach Island, I told her that luring you to Beach Island would probably get you in trouble, and the truth is she’s held it in!” … Tsk, Adam Rouco, it seems Estrella Berrocal is better at cruelty than you…”

Adán Rouco remained half silent.

Jonathan Tasis thought Adam Rouco was too angry to speak, but instead, Adam Rouco spoke calmly, “She’s cruel and I’m cold-hearted, wouldn’t they be a perfect match?”

“You!”

Adán Rouco hitched a cold smile and hung up the phone.

…

Estrella Berrocal slept groggily and had nightmares all day.

When she awoke with a start, she suddenly found a man sitting next to her bed.

It was none other than Adán Rouco.

“I, I don’t want to see you, go away…”

Adam Rouco had a fruit knife in his hand, gracefully moving to peel an apple, “Do you really want me to leave?”

He was excessively calm, the man was too unpredictable for Estrella Berrocal to guess what he was thinking.

Adán Rouco handed the peeled apple to Estrella Berrocal, who looked away without taking it.

Adam Rouco didn’t bother, he just placed the apple on the table next to him and asked in a nonchalant tone, “I heard Jonathan Tasis say you want me dead…”

Estrella Berrocal’s watery eyes trembled and then she said: “You killed my father, of course I want you dead!

Adam Rouco, playing with the shiny fruit knife in his hand, suddenly shook her small hand.

Estrella Berrocal was startled: “Adán Rouco… you, what do you want!”.

The man thrust the fruit knife into her hand hard, and his dark eyes looked at her sullenly, saying in one word, “Don’t you want me to die? You don’t need to go to so much trouble to work with Jonathan Tasis, if you want my life, just plunge this knife into my heart.”

He took her small hand and forced her to hold the fruit knife and stab it into the left side of her chest.

Estrella Berrocal was horrified, “Adán Rouco! You’re crazy! No … no!”

But the man’s strength was far greater than hers, and even with all her strength she could not resist him, as she saw the tip of the knife about to pierce her chest, Estrella Berrocal’s eyes collapsed in tears, “Let go of me! Don’t do it!”

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