Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

City of the Sea, a harsh crackle of porcelain rang out abruptly in the stillness of the evening.

“If you can’t wake him up! Get out of my sight, all of you!”

A young woman stared at a group of doctors as an elderly butler respectfully approached.

“Princess, the man has been unconscious for many days, but his heartbeat and signs are all normal, he should be fine.”

The girl frowned, “But it’s been seven days, will he turn into a vegetable?”.

The housekeeper said, “Princess, you … aren’t looking at anyone, are you?”

“Doesn’t daddy make me go on blind dates every day? Those guys he arranged for me aren’t as good looking as this man who fell in the water, if he wakes up, I’ll make him my fiancé!”

“Princess … this, this is not correct, after all, this man, his origin is unknown.”

The girl snorted coldly and said, “I don’t care that its origin is unknown, I just like it!”

Suddenly, the maids who were guarding the room rushed out, “Princess! He’s awake!”

Clementina Orihuela made her way to the living room on her high heels and entered immediately.

The man in the bed, though just awakened and pale and bloodless, had delicate, deep features and was extremely handsome.

“Is he awake?”

Clementina Orihuela sat down on the chair next to the bed, rested her chin on the edge of the bed with her hands and her eyes stared at him.

Adán Rouco, in bed, unconsciously reached out to touch his sore head, but was stopped by Clementina Orihuela: “Hey? Don’t touch it! You have a serious head injury.”

Adán Rouco looked at the strange woman in front of him and his brow furrowed, “Who are you? And where am I?”

“Me?” Clementina Orihuela looked at him with a smirk, “I’m the one who saved your life! And now you’re in La familia Orihuela, does La familia Orihuela know? Our family, the prestigious Ciudad del Mar family, have taken you in and it’s an honor! If it wasn’t for me, you’d probably be dead at sea.”

Adam Rouco’s mind went blank, “How did I end up in the sea?”

“I don’t know if…, but you really don’t remember?”.

Adán Rouco shook his head: “No, not at all”.

“You don’t have… amnesia, do you? Do you remember … what your name is?”

Clementina Orihuela looked at him curiously, this man, he couldn’t have fallen into the sea and have brain damage, could he?

What a pretty face, wouldn’t it be a shame if his brain was broken? He didn’t like fools.

The man pursed his thin lips and said, “Jerold Rouco.”

Clementina Orihuela’s eyes lit up: “You still remember your name! So, you don’t have amnesia?”.

Adán Rouco emitted an indifferent “hmm”.

“Jerold Rouco, Jerold Rouco…” Clementina Orihuela recited the name, “What a name. ”

The butler showed the doctor in and said to Clementina Orihuela: “Princess, Mr. Adán has just woken up, it would be better to let the doctor examine Mr. Adán”.

“Yes!”

As the doctor examined Adán Rouco, Clementina Orihuela squeaked, “I am your savior, how do you plan to repay me?”

“What do you want?”

Adán Rouco’s reaction was cold. Clementina Orihuela had always been a princess that everyone held in the palm of their hand, and ever since she was a little girl, she had only had her hot face pressed against his cold ass, and no one had ever dared to speak coldly to her.

But the colder Adán Rouco’s attitude became, the more Clementina Orihuela wanted to win him over.

“I want you to be my bodyguard.”

When the butler heard this, he rushed to stop her, “Princess, this must not be done, he … is of unknown origin… in case … ”

“Basilio Grullón, surely this man has no bad intentions, we picked him up in the sea, when he stopped breathing, just to approach me, The Orihuela family, and risk losing a life? And if I hadn’t saved him then, wouldn’t he really be dead?”

The butler nodded, “The princess is right in her analysis.”

Clementina Orihuela smiled and sat down next to Adán Rouco’s bed, staring at him and saying, “You will stay with me as my bodyguard!”

A cold look flashed across the eyes of Adán Rouco: “For what reason?”.

“Because I saved your life! What, you don’t want it? I tell you, there are many men in Sea City who want to be my bodyguard, and if it weren’t for your good looks, I wouldn’t want it! You don’t want to be my bodyguard, but you have to pay me back the money I spent on your treatment! Do you have the money?”

Adán Rouco hated the feeling of having it in the palm of his hand, but now he was almost penniless.

Clementina Orihuela looked at him with narrowed eyes, and finally her eyes fell on his left hand, which was tightly clenched. During the treatment, several doctors took turns to break it, but could not.

Could it be that … was afraid of losing the ring?

“You … wouldn’t be married, would you?”

Clementina Orihuela asked, looking at the ring on her ring finger.

Adán Rouco also looked at the ring on his ring finger and, with a glint of disbelief in his eyes, spoke coldly, “No.”

Clementina Orihuela sighed in relief, “I don’t like being a mistress.”

The doctor told Clementina Orihuela: “Miss Clementina, Mr. Orihuela is fine, he just needs some time to recover”.

Clementina Orihuela asked with concern, “And is his head all right?”.

The doctor smiled and said, “The CT scan shows that there is nothing wrong with the gentleman’s brain, just some superficial injuries and a concussion.”

“That’s good.”

When the doctor left, Clementina Orihuela ordered: “Basilio Grullón, have the maids prepare him something to eat, he has been on nutritious liquids for seven days and has not eaten a single bite, he must be hungry!

“Yes, Princess, I will order someone to prepare it immediately.”Material © of NôvelDrama.Org.

“Go ahead.”

Seeing that Adán Rouco remained silent, Clementina Orihuela approached him and asked, “Hey, I am your savior, why are you giving me the runaround? No one has ever dared to treat me like that”.

Adán Rouco said nothing to him.

Clementina Orihuela bit her lip and turned on the television.

“Adán Rouco, the president of the Rouco Group, has his funeral today, will there be an internal change in the Rouco Group due to the death of Adán Rouco? And for a family multinational such as the Rouco Group consortium, will the death of the central soul leader cause a big stock market shake-up?”

The man’s dark eyes fluttered when he heard the name Adán Rouco.

Clementina Orihuela had no interest in that kind of finance and quickly skipped a channel when Adán Rouco suddenly took the remote out of her hands and turned the channel back on.

Clementina Orihuela frowned, “Huh? You …”

But when he tuned in again, it was already in advertising.

Clementina Orihuela glared at him and snatched the remote control from him: “I am your master, how can you steal my channel?

Adam Rouco frowned and looked at the platinum ring on his left ring finger, his dark eyes widening slightly.

When the butler brings the snack, Clementina Orihuela brings the porridge, picks up the spoon, takes a spoonful, brings it to her red lips and blows on it, then passes it to Adán Rouco’s thin lips.

Adán Rouco does not open his mouth, his gaze is cold.

Clementina Orihuela gets impatient: “Eat.”

“I’ll do it myself.”

Clementina Orihuela won’t let her, “Don’t you like me to feed you? Do you know how many people dream of being treated like that? I tell you I’m feeding you and you have to eat! If you don’t, you won’t be able to eat.

The man was not happy, but he was under the roof and had to bend over, and finally gave in.

Clementina Orihuela watched him take a bite of the porridge she was giving him and felt satisfied, “If I’m happy, I might make you my fiancé, so you’d better behave yourself.”

“I didn’t say I intend to be your fiancé, I have become your bodyguard to pay you for the deal, and when it is paid, you will no longer have the right to curtail my freedom.”

“Heh, then we’ll see, I don’t think anyone can look at me Clementina Orihuela!”