Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Estrella Berrocal washed up and had just finished breakfast when her cell phone rang and the caller ID was her second aunt.

Looking at the caller ID, she froze, why was her second aunt calling her all of a sudden?

When she picked up the phone, Estrella Berrocal was about to say a few words of greeting when Shoshana Duque, on the other end, said coldly, “Come out and meet me, I’ll send you the address.”

Although she had not spent much time with Shoshana Duque, she had been a guest at Fresco Rouco’s house and had spoken with him.

Shoshana Duque was a very gentle person and had been extremely polite and kind to Adán Rouco and to her, but the tone of her call today was not only cold, but especially stereotypical, with a commanding tone and without the most elementary courtesy.

Estrella Berrocal didn’t take it personally, she just assumed that Shoshana Duque was perhaps in some kind of hurry, and her tone remained friendly: “Yes.”

After hanging up the phone, Estrella Berrocal received an address from Shoshana Duque and wondered on the way over if the change of attitude towards her was because Shoshana Duque had learned that Fresco Rouco intended to give her half of his estate.

After all, anyone would dislike it if her husband gave half of her fortune to an outsider.

When they arrived at the café, Estrella Berrocal gave the name Shoshana Duque and the waiter led her to the private room.

In the booth, Shoshana Duque was already seated waiting for her, looking bad.

After Shoshana Duque told the waiter to leave, Estrella Berrocal approached her and greeted her with a slight smile, “Tia, is there something you asked me out for?”.

Shoshana Duque was cold and said, “Sit down and we’ll talk.”

Estrella Berrocal nodded and sat down across from her.

Shoshana Duque looked at her and said, “I came to see you today because I have something very important to tell you.”

“The second aunt wants to talk to me about the distribution of the assets in the second uncle’s name, right?”.

Estrella Berrocal did not evade the question, but said bluntly: “Don’t worry, I’m not going to ask for any of the uncle’s assets, although I still don’t understand why the uncle decided to give me half of the assets in his name. Even if Uncle Segundo were to give it to him, it would be to Adam, or even to Paulita, and how should it not touch me.”

Shoshana Duque scoffed, “Good thing you know that.”

Estrella Berrocal pursed her lips wordlessly and took a sip of her coffee.

“But aren’t you the least bit curious to know why Fresco Rouco would give you half of his fortune?”.

Estrella Berrocal frowned slightly, vaguely uneasy: “Why?”.

“The truth is that I didn’t expect to meet his daughter again, after more than twenty years.”

Your daughter?

Estrella Berrocal was feeling more and more out of place, “What exactly do you mean, second aunt?”

“Your mother, Juanisha Capistrán, was my husband’s mistress, hmmm, your mother is dead and she sent one of you to my husband to rob me and Arella, I really hate you mother and daughter.”

Estrella Berrocal’s hand shook as she clutched her coffee cup.

She looked dazedly at Shoshana Duque, “Auntie Second, what, what exactly do you mean?”.This is property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

The cold light in Shoshana Duque’s eyes sharpened as she looked at her, “What do I mean you don’t understand, who would leave such a fortune to a person who is not their relative? At least charity has a clear purpose, and when Fresco Rouco decided to give you such a large fortune, did it occur to you that it was yours?”

Estrella Berrocal literally listened to her heart, stuttering.

After several seconds, she burst out laughing, “Don’t joke like that, second aunt, how can I be related to my second uncle, my father loves me so much, if I were someone else’s daughter, how could he still support me?”

Estrella Berrocal only found it unbelievable, even more unbelievable, and in her inner self she resisted the relationship beyond measure.

“Why your father kept you I don’t know, perhaps Juanisha Capistran cajoled your father, after all, wasn’t that how she seduced my husband back in the day? For her, these tactics are nothing more than a repetition of her old tricks, nothing strange.”

Estrella Berrocal clenched her coffee cup with some anger: “Please don’t slander my mother, she’s dead”.

“Heh, if she hadn’t been a lover, would I have slandered…. Slander her?”

“It’s impossible for my mother to have been someone’s mistress, and it’s impossible for me to be related to Uncle Two!”.

Shoshana Duque laughed mockingly, “I see you still don’t believe it.”

“Of course I don’t believe it, if Uncle Two is really my father, why didn’t he tell me?”.

There were a lot of holes in this.

Shoshana Duque said sarcastically, “How dare he tell you, he would hate to carry the secret in his coffin without everyone knowing. If he told you that you were his real daughter, then you and Adam would be cousins, but the funny thing is that now you and Adam are married in name only, and he’s afraid that both you and Adam will hate him. Fresco Rouco, who has been a coward all his life, eloped with Juanisha Capistrán, so he might as well have left and never come back, but he came back, abandoning his wife at home for Juanisha Capistrán, and then, later, he abandoned Juanisha Capistrán, do you know why? This is retribution, retribution for your mother being a mistress!”.

Estrella Berrocal’s hand, which was clenched in a fist, trembled, her knuckles were blue and white.

She gritted her teeth for a long, long time before slowly opening her mouth and saying, “Have you said enough, Aunt Second?”

“Of course I didn’t. I didn’t really hate you at first, you were Adam’s wife, we were related, how could I hate you, but when I found out you were the daughter of my husband and another woman, do you know how much I hated you? I thought how did that fire not kill you, if you died in that fire, even if it made me go to jail, I just wanted my daughter to have a happy life. It’s okay for me to be unhappy because of your presence, but Arella is starting to be unhappy too, Estrella Berrocal, why are you Juanisha Capistrán’s daughter?”

Estrella Berrocal took a deep breath and said, “You are really wrong, I am not my second uncle’s daughter, nor could I be, I have a father, my father is Stefano Berrocal!”

“This father you speak of, he’s blood type A. I don’t suppose he ever told you that your mother Juanisha Capistrán was also blood type A?”

Estrella Berrocal’s teary eyes were shaking hard, how could she … know that Stefano Berrocal was blood type A, but she had always thought that her mother, Juanisha Capistran, was blood type B, so she had been born with blood type AB.

Estrella Berrocal looked at Shoshana Duque in surprise and her lips stuttered, “It can’t be, you must be mistaken.”

I may have believed Shoshana Duque that her mother, Juanisha Capistrán, had an affair with Fresco Rouco, but I could never believe that she could be Fresco Rouco’s daughter.

“I know my husband’s blood type better, you know he has the same blood type as you, AB.”

Estrella Berrocal bit her lip and forced a smile, “So what, there are so many people with the AB blood type in the world, are all people with the AB blood type Uncle Two’s children?”.

“No point arguing, Fresco Rouco had a DNA report done secretly a long time ago, I have seen it in the safe in his study. Your blood types may be a match, so is the result of your DNA comparison also a match?”