Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Estrella Berrocal brought breakfast first thing the next morning and headed to Esteban Zaragosa’s medical base.

Esteban Zaragosa had given him a card with which he could enter even without fingerprint recognition.

He entered only to see Esteban Zaragosa already standing in front of the potion bottles and flasks making his concoctions, and Jerold Rouco, on that technological bed, already awake.

“Dr. Esteban, I have brought breakfast, would you like some?”.

“Sure.”

Esteban Zaragosa took the gloves off his hands, washed them and went to breakfast.

Estrella Berrocal looked at Jerold Rouco on the technical bed and took one of the rations to Jerold Rouco, who could not eat with both hands tied.

Estrella Berrocal guessed that the high-tech bed, which should be able to be adjusted higher like a normal hospital bed, asked Esteban Zaragosa, “Doctor Esteban, can you adjust this one’s bed higher?”

Esteban Zaragosa picked up a remote control, adjusted it and the bed rose slowly and automatically.

Jerold Rouco lay back on the bed and Estrella Berrocal spooned a spoonful of porridge to his thin lips.

Jerold Rouco did not eat her, his gaze was chillingly fixed on her, “Let go of me.”

Esteban Zaragosa ignored him and Estrella Berrocal, biting her lip, said, “I’ll let you sleep here for a while, but don’t worry, I’ll bring you your three meals a day, and if there’s anything you want to eat, tell me.”

Jerold Rouco did not like this at all and his eyes were stern: “What the hell do you want to do to me!”.

Estrella Berrocal did not answer: “First eat your porridge”.

Jerold Rouco did not want to eat, “Let me go, I’ll eat it myself”.

“But…”

Esteban Zaragosa snorted, “You think you’re going to force us to unblock you with that?”

Esteban Zaragosa reached over and took the bowl of porridge straight from Estrella Berrocal’s hand. “Eat or starve to death.”

Jerold Rouco clenched his fist.

Esteban Zaragosa was having breakfast on the side, eating well, Jerold Rouco had not eaten since last night and it was natural for him to be hungry.

Estrella Berrocal looked at Esteban Zaragosa and asked Jerold Rouco in a whisper, “Are you sure you do not want to eat?”

“Let go of me!”

A growl and the sound of a growling stomach sounded.

Estrella Berrocal’s mouth twisted: “If you don’t eat, I’ll take all this breakfast to Dr. Esteban”.

Esteban Zaragosa cooperated: “Bring it here, bring it here, he won’t eat it, don’t waste it, I’ll take it to the hospital to feed Dulcina Calvo’s pig”.

Estrella Berrocal made a move to take the thermos, and Jerold Rouco’s brow furrowed deeply.

“Wait.”

Estrella Berrocal moved, “Do you want to eat again?”.

Jerold Rouco swallowed saliva, pursed his lips and scoffed, “Since you made me this for breakfast, wouldn’t it be a shame to give it to the pigs?”

Dulcina Calvo, still at home under the covers, sneezed loudly, who was cursing her in the morning?

Estrella Berrocal fed him, he looked very hungry and ate a lot, Estrella Berrocal remembered that Adán Rouco liked tuna sandwiches, so she got up at dawn to make one, she was pregnant and could not smell the fish, even so she endured the fishy smell of that can of tuna to make a sandwich.

He pulled a still warm tuna sandwich out from under the thermos and held it up to Jerold Rouco’s mouth, “I remembered that you love tuna sandwiches so I made you one this morning, would you like to try one?”.

Jerold Rouco smelled the fishy taste and wrinkled his nose slightly, saying coldly with some disgust, “I don’t like fish.”

“…”

Estrella Berrocal froze and said numbly, “You don’t like fish. …”

True, this person is not Adam, but Jerold Rouco, and presumably with a change of personality comes a change of preferences and tastes.

For example, Adam liked it, but this Jerold Rouco in front of him obviously didn’t like it.

Esteban Zaragosa approached and took the tuna sandwich from Estrella Berrocal’s hand, saying, “Since she doesn’t like it, I’ll take it to the hospital to Dulcina Calvo, who likes everything.”

Estrella Berrocal was in a better mood and said with a slight smile, “Dulcina loves soy milk and potato chips, you can buy her on the way.”

Estrella Berrocal knew that Esteban Zaragosa liked Dulcina Calvo, and that Esteban Zaragosa had been watching Adán Rouco for her for two days, and she didn’t know how to thank him.

Esteban Zaragosa’s eyes shone with a dark look and his thin lips curved.

When Esteban Zaragosa went to the hospital, he told Estrella Berrocal that Dulcina Calvo was coming to spend the afternoon to take turns watching Jerold Rouco.

Estrella Berrocal felt it was too much trouble for Esteban Zaragosa and Dulcina Calvo and would like to thank them when Adán returned.

When Esteban Zaragosa left, Estrella Berrocal sat next to Jerold Rouco, looking at him and talking to him.

Rather than talking to Jerold Rouco, it was Estrella Berrocal who was talking to Adán Rouco, alone, to herself.

“What do you want to eat?”

Jerold Rouco pursed his thin lips and was silent for a long moment, staring at the airtight security system of the place; if no one came to his aid, he would not be able to escape at all.

And all I could hope for was that the woman in front of me would unlock it.

So Jerold Rouco began to respond to Estrella Berrocal with determination: “What does Adán Rouco like to eat?

“Huh?” Without waiting for me to ask about Adam, Estrella Berrocal said, “Adam has a very light taste and is not very picky about food, but he seems to love tofu.”

Estrella Berrocal’s face reddened with sweetness as she remembered the time he ate her tofu at the hot food restaurant while asking her to fish it out.

Jerold Rouco stared at her and said, “Then I’ll eat tofu.”

“Sure, what else do you want to eat?”

Jerold Rouco said two dishes at random, and when Estrella Berrocal wrote them down, Jerold Rouco suddenly brought his handsome face close to hers.

The four eyes met abruptly.

Estrella Berrocal was in a trance for a moment: “Adam?

Jerold Rouco bows his head and kisses her on the lips, and Estrella Berrocal is stunned.

It wasn’t until the kiss was over and Estrella Berrocal’s cheeks turned scarlet that Jerold Rouco said softly, “I think I may actually be Adam Rouco, because when I kissed you, I felt it.”

“So you can go back to being Adam?” said Estrella Berrocal, her eyes red-rimmed.

Jerold Rouco said: “Maybe, if we communicate through our bodies, I will become your Adam”.

Estrella Berrocal’s face burst into a blush, unable to distinguish between the truth and falsehood of her words.

But if it was possible, she was willing to try, and besides, this body of Jerold Rouco was Adam’s body.

“Really, really?”

Jerold Rouco nodded solemnly and added, “But look at me now, how am I going to do it with you with both hands cuffed? I would love to help you, but I can’t, that doctor Esteban, I don’t think he will let go of me.”

Estrella Berrocal asked anxiously, “You kissed me, did you really remember me when you kissed me?”.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“You don’t believe me?”

“I … I didn’t, it’s just, it’s just…”

“Only what?”

“I just can’t untie you right now.”

A calculating look crossed Jerold Rouco’s eyes as he said, “Or how about this, you untie one of my hands, so I can also eat the food you make me for lunch, I’m how old I am and it’s weird to me that you always feed me. If you untie one of my hands, I won’t be able to run away or undress you and follow you…”