Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Paulita came to stay at The Villas at Repulse Bay for three days and Adán Rouco could not hug Estrella Berrocal every night and had severe insomnia.

When he arrived at the Rouco Group, Santino Yepes saw that Adán Rouco had not looked well for two days and vaguely thought it was due to BOSS’s recent messy married life.

“Boss, how are you and your wife these days?”.

Adán Rouco looked at him coldly with a frown, “What do you want to ask?”.

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Adán Rouco rested a long finger on his brow bone, a hint of helplessness in his eyes. “Paulita went to Las villas in Repulse Bay and made me lose a little sleep.”

“…”

Surely it was not Paulita who wanted to sleep together, so dividing the couple’s alone time.

On the fourth night, Adán Rouco could not stand it any longer and called Mr. Rouco to go to the nursery to pick up Paulita from La Villa Rouco.

When Paulita saw that it was Roberto Rouco, she asked curiously, “Grandpa, why are you picking me up today? I haven’t had enough with Las Villas de Repulse Bay”.

Surely Mr. Rouco knew the reason and reassured Paulita: “Your father is busy at the end of the year and soon it will be Christmas Eve, your father and mother will be back for Christmas, so you will see them again soon.”

Paulita bit her little mouth and growled, “Hmph, I think Daddy doesn’t like me sleeping with Estrella in my arms because he wants to sleep with Estrella in his arms too!”

“…”

Sister Rouco coughed lightly twice.

…

After Paulita returned to the Rouco family, Adán Rouco was finally able to sleep well.

Estrella Berrocal, hugging him, couldn’t help but ask: “How come I didn’t know you had insomnia before?”.

“It’s not so bad, it’s much better when I sleep with you in my arms.”

Estrella Berrocal couldn’t help but smile, “If you do that, I’ll think you can’t leave me.”

Adam Rouco was not ashamed, he hugged her tighter, tilted his face and kissed her temple, his eyes closed and his voice muffled. “What’s wrong with not being able to leave your wife?”

Estrella Berrocal, who should have appeared shy, or moved, became quiet at that moment, and felt suddenly a little sad as she leaned against his chest and listened to the quiet, strong beat of his heart.

“Adam, I…”

If I were the second uncle’s daughter, would you want to stay with me?

Between them, perhaps there really is a blood relationship …

But Adán Rouco seems to have fallen asleep.

He didn’t lose any more sleep over it, but she seemed to.

Tomorrow he should ask Uncle Two out and ask him to clear his head.

…

The next day, after Adán Rouco had left for the office, Estrella Berrocal called Fresco Rouco.

When they arrived at the agreed place, Estrella Berrocal sat face to face with Fresco Rouco.

Estrella Berrocal lifted the cup of coffee in front of her and took a rather long sip before speaking, “Uncle Two, I asked you out on a date, you should know why.”

Fresco Rouco, naturally, knew it: “You know it …”.

Before Fresco Rouco could finish the sentence, Estrella Berrocal immediately interrupted: “Yes”.

His face was cold, completely devoid of the joy of recognition of a blood relative.

Fresco Rouco swallowed saliva, with a strong flash of shame in his eyes, “Estrella, I … I’m sorry for you and your mother. If I had been braver then, maybe our family …”

“Sorry, I didn’t invite Uncle Two out today to hear those words.”

Fresco Rouco nodded: “I know, you wouldn’t have recognized me”.

Estrella Berrocal fought the acidity in her nose, her watery eyes staring at him as she asked, “Are you sure, you’re not wrong?”

Fresco Rouco laughed bitterly, he knew she wouldn’t want to admit it, but he didn’t expect her to want to set such a limit.

“You are AB, your adoptive father and your mother, both A, and I am AB, I also took a DNA test and in it … it showed that we are indeed father and daughter.”

Estrella Berrocal’s hand, resting under the table, squeezed an inch tighter.

I don’t know if it was the sadness, or if it was just too ridiculous, but my eyes were hurting and slowly getting wet.

“My mother, is she a third party?”.

Fresco Rouco was stunned and said: “How can she be? Your mother is so stubborn and upright, how can she be a third party to break up someone’s marriage. Your mother has never been a third party.”

“But my second aunt said my mother was a third.”

“That’s silly!” Fresco Rouco sulked a bit, brewing beer for a long while before calming down and speaking slowly, “Your mother and I are college alumni, we fell in love when we were in college, but at that time, my family had already engaged me in marriage, I was afraid your mother would break up with me if she found out about this, so I kept it from her, on the other hand, I wanted to break the family bond. ”

Estrella Berrocal laughed softly and scoffed, “So, my mother is still the third party, only she’s more pathetic and has been kept in the dark by you.”

A look of guilt and dejection crossed Fresco Rouco’s face, “I’m sorry for all this, it’s all my fault”.

Tears fell silently from Estrella Berrocal’s eyes, her eyes were red and she looked at Fresco Rouco with some resentment, “Why did you admit to me, why did you find this out, you knew I was Adam’s wife, and now you say you’re sorry, is it any good? I would rather not have known this, and I would rather you had not investigated it.”

“Star, I … I saw you for the first time and thought you looked so much like your mother, I got excited inside, I was desperate to know if you were my daughter, I had someone look into it and I found out you were AB, do you know how happy I was? I thought in my mind that little girl was still alive then …. I got too excited for a moment …”

Estrella Berrocal choked slightly, “But I didn’t want to be your daughter, now I am Adán Rouco’s wife, if you had rotted everything in your mind, now I could still be fine with Adán and Paulita, I am so with Adán, I love him so much, but now you tell me that I am your own daughter, what is that between me and Adán? How can I be with Adán in the future? Have you ever thought about how Paulita would behave if she grew up and found out about all this?”

“I know it will be hard for you to face your relationship with Adam when I find out, but since you are married and have given birth to a healthy Paulita, I promise I won’t tell the secret, you and Adam …”

Estrella Berrocal grimaced, sniffled and said: “Shoshana Duque also knows and hates my mother and hates me. I can understand that she hates me, but I can’t forgive you, you are the guilty one”.

Fresco Rouco’s face was slightly white, his eyes were full of sadness and guilt, he didn’t know what to say: “I’m sorry”.

“I’m not going to recognize you, I only had one father and he passed away a long time ago.”

Estrella Berrocal grabbed her purse, stood up and walked quickly away, leaving the cabin without looking back.

Fresco Rouco was sitting in his chair, his hand on the table, trembling slightly and irremediably.

There was some moisture in the vicissitudes of his eyes.

Estrella Berrocal’s eyes were red as she ran away.

How could she be the daughter of the Rouco family if it was all a nightmare?

His father, it was clear, was Stefano Berrocal.