Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

The fiery breath of Adán Rouco approached her, with a long smile on his lips: “That? Star, that one you’re talking about, which one is it?”.

Estrella Berrocal gave him a fierce look, the man, he knew what he was talking about!

She pulled back from his arms, threw the blanket over her head and said playfully, “If you don’t want to talk about it, forget it!”.

Adán Rouco smiled at the little woman wrapped in a bun and his long arm tugged at the blanket.

Estrella Berrocal did lift the sheets, red in the face: “The baby is still in my belly, my baby, not yours!

I’m afraid the baby was the only thing I had in mind!

Adam Rouco looked at her with a sour expression and pulled her into his arms, “How did you get pregnant without me?”

Estrella Berrocal blushed: “…”.

The man stared at her for a moment, “Okay, leave it, what do you want to eat tonight, I’ll go get it.”

“I want a burger with fries and lots of chilli!”.

Adam Rouco frowned a little, clearly she was not very happy with this dinner she was about to have, “It’s not nutritious, what more do you want?”

“That’s all I want, and I don’t have the stomach to eat anything else if you ask me.”

“You stay here, I’ll go get him.”

Estrella Berrocal could hardly imagine Adán Rouco standing in a crowd of people, in an elegant dress, in front of her, helping her buy a hamburger and fries.

It was an image that warmed his nose to the point of souring just thinking about it.

Adán Rouco, although he saw her as a shadow of Analena Lozada, must have had some affection for her, right?

Estrella Berrocal consoled herself with this Q. She was waiting for Adán Rouco to return from shopping for dinner when her cell phone rang.

The caller ID showed an unknown number.

Estrella Berrocal didn’t think twice and took it.

“Hello, is this…?”

“Hello, is this Miss Estrella Berrocal? I am Analena Lozada”.

“…”

…

Adán Rouco was returning from buying a hamburger and fries with cheap white plastic bags in both hands, quite out of place.

Estrella Berrocal sat up in the hospital bed and couldn’t help but smile, pulling out her phone and snapping a few pictures of him. Adán Rouco unconsciously raised his hand to cover his face and frowned, asking, “What are you doing?”

“President Rouco, you’ve suddenly become so homey, I had to take your picture!”.

Adán Rouco placed the object in his hand on the table and stretched out his hand: “Let me see”.

“No, if I show it to you, I’m sure you’ll delete it.”

Estrella Berrocal, like a hidden treasure, tucked the phone under her pillow to keep it out of Adán Rouco’s reach, propped up the hospital bed board and tapped on the small table. “I’m going to eat, to serve dinner!”

Adam Rouco, without bothering to lecture her, took the steaming hamburger and fries to the board and opened them.

Estrella Berrocal was already hungry and as she looked at the food, so full of color and flavor, her appetite was so strong that she tore off the packet of chili peppers and poured them into the fries.

Adán Rouco wrinkled his nose: “Don’t eat anything heavy”.

Adán Rouco has always had a lighter palate, especially with Paulita, and has instructed his cooks to eat with less oil, salt and spice.

Estrella Berrocal ate her burger and fries with satisfaction: “It’s really good, do you want a bite?”.

The man, however, looked at her with disgust.

Estrella Berrocal brought a noodle stick close to Adán Rouco’s thin lips. “You’ll know how good it is when you taste it!”.

Estrella Berrocal pushed the mouth, “If you don’t want to eat it, it’s a shame you don’t like it.”

As soon as Estrella Berrocal put the chopsticks in her mouth, Adán Rouco’s thin lips suddenly closed around hers.

He hooked the unchewed mouthful of noodles into his own and bit down hard before releasing it and savoring the food in his mouth.

For a few brief seconds, Estrella Berrocal gaped until the man gave her an ambiguous look and a serious look back, “It tastes very good.”

“…”

Was it just okay?

But Estrella Berrocal didn’t have the courage to say anything, and with a slight blush she lowered her head and continued eating her hamburger and fries.

Adán Rouco had some fried rice for dinner, but it was clear that he was not a fan of fried rice out there, and after a few bites, he put it aside and ate no more.

Estrella Berrocal was about to stuff the last of her hamburger into her mouth when Adán Rouco snapped her wrist and took it directly into his own mouth.

Estrella Berrocal looked at him with a pout: “Why are you taking my food? … Well …”

Adán Rouco wrapped his arms around her body and his thin lips kissed her hard, attacking the city …

Estrella Berrocal gasped from the kiss before Adán Rouco released her with a slight smirk on his forehead. “Here you go.”

“…”

When did this man become … a rogue!

Adán Rouco was always a correct and ascetic man, but now his skin was so thick!

However, his heart was surprisingly sweet like a thick layer of honey sprinkled on top.

…

The following morning, Estrella Berrocal was discharged from the hospital, as expected.

Adam Rouco took her back to The Villas at Repulse Bay and settled her in before going to work.

Estrella Berrocal was fine, changed her clothes and left the house.

…

When he arrived at the place he had arranged with Analena Lozada, he saw “Analena Lozada” as soon as he walked in the door.

At that time, it was not lunchtime and it was a weekday, so there was no one in the cafeteria.

Even from a distance, Estrella Berrocal could clearly see the resemblance between her and Analena Lozada.

He approached her, “You … you’re Analena Lozada, right?”.

Analena Lozada looked at her with a slight smile, “Yes, you are Miss Estrella?”

Estrella Berrocal nodded as she took a seat, “Yes, I am Estrella Berrocal.”

“I’m looking for her, not to disturb her current life with Adam, I just found out from Dr. Julieta that Adam’s current girlfriend, she looks like me, that’s why I wanted to meet her.”

Although Analena Lozada’s words were polite and inappropriate, they struck a chord in Estrella Berrocal’s heart.NôvelDrama.Org owns this text.

She looked calmly at Analena Lozada, seated across from her, and asked, pursing her lips, “Miss Analena, if you are still alive, why did you come to me first and not to Adán Rouco?”

Analena Lozada froze, stroking her coffee cup with her fingers, and said hesitantly, “I haven’t thought about how to confront Adán, after all, I haven’t seen him for ten years, and in those ten years he’s had a life of his own, and I’ve heard Dr. Julieta say that…. he … already has a daughter…”

Analena Lozada looked at the diamond ring on Estrella Berrocal’s ring finger, staring blankly, but smiled softly and asked, “You and Adam, I believe, are married?”

Estrella Berrocal squeezed his hand and put the one with the diamond ring, under the table, “No, he and I are not married, Miss Analena, since you are alive, you should let Adam know as soon as possible, he has suffered all these years because of your death.”

If Adán Rouco knew that Analena Lozada was still alive and well, he should … not have nightmares again in the future, right?

Estrella Berrocal recalled that when Adán Rouco slept next to her, in her midnight dreams, she was Analena Lozada, and the name she pronounced, too, was Analena Lozada.

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