Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

On the way back from Mundo Submarino, Adán Rouco said while driving, “If you really like to see whales and you’re not afraid of getting tired, next time we’ll take the caravan and go to the beach to see them.”

Estrella Berrocal smiled and simply said, “Sure.”

If he ever had the opportunity to return to La Ciudad Santa, he would very much like to go with him to the beach to wait for the whales and watch the sunrise and sunset.

Although I don’t know if he will be lucky enough to do it again.

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Back in the villas of Repulse Bay, Estrella Berrocal was distracted and Adán Rouco hugged her from behind, kissed her temple and asked in a muffled voice: “What’s wrong, you’re sullen”.Content © NôvelDrama.Org.

“No, I was just thinking about when we’re going to the beach to see the whales.”

Adán Rouco smiled slightly and said, “When we have a few days off, I’ll take you and we’ll go to the beach for three days or three nights.

“No family gatherings on … if it’s Christmas?”

“We have many relatives, but since the old man is older, everyone in our family is older, the relatives are mostly juniors, and some don’t move around much, besides, the atmosphere in town for worship is already pretty light, at most we get together for a reunion dinner at a restaurant on Christmas Day.”

Estrella Berrocal nodded, “That’s good, I don’t have to deal with so many relatives, and I don’t think your relatives are very nice to deal with.”

Adán Rouco looked at her and couldn’t help but smile, “Why do I get the impression that Mrs. Rouco is complaining about our family’s bad character?”

“Isn’t it? Especially … you.”

Estrella Berrocal pulled away from his arms and faced him, her fingers poking him in the chest, her eyes lowered to look at the buttons of his shirt on his chest as she said, “Tenebroso, sometimes I don’t even know what pisses you off and suddenly I freak out and get angry.”

At her sullen complaint, Adán Rouco took her small hand in his and looked at her with dark, mocking eyes: “Don’t you also like to be unpredictable?

Estrella Berrocal looked at him, feigning anger, and Adán Rouco hugged her, caressing the back of her neck and saying: “Change, change, change.

“And not with Paulita, she is still young and you will have a bad influence on her”, said Estrella Berrocal.

Adán Rouco laughed: “You seem to think I’m abusing Paulita. Paulita.”

Estrella Berrocal got serious: “I know you’re good for Paulita, but she’s still young, so don’t be too strict with her.”

“A girl has to be afraid of an adult in the house, the old man spoils her and you spoil her, so if I’m not tougher on her, I’ll have to be tougher on the house.”

Estrella Berrocal recited a few more words.

Adán Rouco looked at her, “Why do you always look strange to me today?”.

“What’s weird?” Estrella Berrocal immediately went on alert.

Adán Rouco looked at her for a few seconds, then smiled slightly, raised his hand to rub her head and said, “Go to bed and take a shower.”

“Do you have to work at this time of night?”.

“Taking care of some emails, I’ll be coming to sleep with you soon.”

His gaze was so fiery that it made Estrella Berrocal’s ears blush and she lowered her gaze and said, “Then go away.”

Estrella Berrocal finished bathing and came out of the bathroom to see Adán Rouco coming from the studio.

“So soon.”

Adán Rouco fiddled with a Lego that Paulita had left here two days earlier, asking him to put it together before giving it to her, and the man’s big, thin, nimble hands were quick to assemble it.

“How can I be slow if you want me to sleep with you so much, how bad is it to discourage you, you might get mad at me again.”

“… where”.

Estrella Berrocal bit her lips, was she so unreasonable?

“Come here.”

Adán Rouco greeted her and Estrella Berrocal approached her, “What?”.

Adam Rouco frowned slightly, “You said why, come here and let me hug you.”

Estrella Berrocal leaned into his arms.

Adán Rouco said, “You’ve been at home for a long time, I think you’re bored, after New Year’s, if you want to go out to work, go out to work, meet people outside, so you don’t have friends around.”

Estrella Berrocal looked at him with some surprise.

“Why are you looking at me?”

“I didn’t think you would be so supportive of me going out to work and making friends.”

Adán Rouco said, “As long as you don’t make friends indiscriminately, of course I won’t object. You are still young and it is not good for me to keep you always at home, it is good for you to expose yourself to the outside world.”

Estrella Berrocal smiled sweetly and looked at him with arched eyebrows, “It seems like I’m a little girl and you’re an old man, but you are.”

“You’ll see how happy you are staying at home when you have more contact with the outside world, and you’ll see how good your husband is to you when you have more contact with people outside.”

Estrella Berrocal stood up and pounced on Adán Rouco, whom Estrella Berrocal caught off guard and pinned to the bed.

Her watery eyes sparkled as she looked at him, “Even if I don’t touch the outside world, if I don’t touch the people outside, I know how good you are to me.”

Right now, the only person in the world who was unconditionally good to her was Adán Rouco.

“Are you trying to crush your husband?”

“…” Estrella Berrocal blushed and muttered, “Am I that heavy, can’t I come down?”

She was about to get off Adam Rouco when the man’s large hand suddenly pulled her back, “Come back.”

The man pulled her back, pinned her under him and … kissed her.

The words “I love you” that Estrella Berrocal had said tonight in the underwater world were so vivid in Adán Rouco’s mind that it disturbed her: “Say the words you said tonight in the underwater world, again.”

“What words? I don’t remember.”

Adam Rouco’s gaze seared her, with a calculating glint in his eyes. “You don’t remember, do you?”.

Estrella Berrocal couldn’t stop laughing, her body shrank from side to side, “Ah… stop!”

“Do you remember? Do you remember? Hmm?”

“Stop scratching … that tickles! Hahahahaha… it tickles!”

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Early the next morning, not long after Adán Rouco had left, the car sent by the old man arrived at Las Villas of Repulse Bay.

The aide said, “Third Young Grandmother, if your luggage is all done, get in the car, the president has asked me to take you to the airport.”

Estrella Berrocal nodded and looked toward The Villas at Repulse Bay.

The attendant put the suitcase in the car and said, “Third Young Grandmother, let’s go.”

Estrella Berrocal got into the car and was distracted.

When they arrived at the airport, Mr. Rouco was already standing there waiting.

“Dad.”

Mr. Rouco handed him a kraft paper bag and said, “There is a new cell phone and a new phone card, and a savings card with the code written on the back, remember to erase it when you remember, and your new identity documents inside.”

“New identity documents?”

“If you don’t travel to Florence with your new identity, in less than twenty-four hours Adam will find out your flight number and where you have been.”

Estrella Berrocal’s hand, which had grasped the kraft paper bag, wavered slightly.

He understood, the old man was trying to prevent Adán Rouco from finding her.