Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Adán Rouco’s stomach turned violently during the return trip.

Perhaps too eagerly, this stomach kept churning and his back was wet with cold sweat.

Adán Rouco’s stomach churned with one hand and the steering wheel with the other, cold sweat trickling from the corner of his forehead to his eyelids.

It had been a long time since I had an upset stomach, not since I was with Estrella Berrocal.

Remembering the first time his stomach hurt in front of her, he had picked up an aloe vera in a corner of his study, ran to the kitchen, brought a glass of cold water and told her to drink it.

At that moment, he felt that woman was really cruel, his stomach hurt like that, but he still let her eat the aloe vera and cold water, he really wanted to strangle her.

But when he told her it was a prescription for stomach problems, she was convinced.

How could she believe in such a recipe, which had no scientific basis, and just drink it without thinking because it was her?

Only he never said that, in fact, after drinking the aloe vera with the cold water, his stomach pain was not relieved either, it seemed to have gotten worse, only he was much better because he had her.

Ten years ago, I lived in a world of one, and if it hadn’t been for her, I might have disappeared from this world long ago.

I was also really grateful that Estrella Berrocal had saved Lorenzo Rouco back then.

But now, how could he leave him and Paulita for a few words from the old man?

Hadn’t he said he couldn’t live without her?

It is true that … I hadn’t said anything so pretentious either.

I could live well without it, and live more sensibly, more fearlessly.

I just feared that if I wasn’t with her, I wouldn’t live well.

Thinking of her fondness for instant noodles, Adán Rouco worried that she was eating them again when she went out alone and hungry.

He was angry with her for leaving without saying goodbye, but when he thought about where she was and whether she would be well fed and clothed, all his anger turned to softness and heartache.

Estrella Berrocal was sensitive, and was probably in a corner, thinking about it, after the old man had dismissed her so ruthlessly.

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At this moment, it is six o’clock in the evening in Florence.

Estrella Berrocal is sitting in a hotel near the airport, eating a bucket of instant noodles.

He has bought a bucket of domestic instant noodles, put a kettle on to boil, waited for it to boil, poured the hot water into the bucket, sat cross-legged on the thick carpet and waited for the instant noodles to boil.

During the few minutes he waits for the instant noodles, his eyes empty and he remembers how he always had to eat them with Adam Rouco on his back at Las Villas of Repulse Bay.

The circles of his eyes, slightly sour.

He looks down and puts a big mouthful in his mouth with a disposable plastic fork, but the noodles are so spicy that tears come to his eyes.

The heat, which smoked her eyes, made her gulp even more.

This thing, I do not know who invented it, convenient and delicious, but now this cube … can be really hard to eat.

Now I finally understand that kimchi noodles are delicious enough when eaten on the sly.

So the good Adam Rouco, why didn’t he go again with the old man?

She was not so selfless, and was sitting in this cold, unfamiliar hell with nothing to do but lament.

She thought that if she had told all this to Adán Rouco, he would never have let her go.

He had said that if the world was ending, but that there would always be a safe place, that he wasn’t a hero from a Marvel movie saving the world, that he just wanted to take her to the safest place to hide.

But … it was because of Adán Rouco who was so good that he could not stand people discrediting him at will.

Although nobody is perfect, Adán Rouco is perfect for Estrella Berrocal, except for his bad temper. Besides, when it comes to her, he is always patient and becomes Mr. Good-natured.

The bucket of noodles was getting saltier and saltier.

There were a lot of tears in the noodles.

Estrella Berrocal lies down on one side of the sofa and thinks in silence for a long time.

The old man sent her to this icy place, the map of the world is so big that it would be a disaster if Adam Rouco couldn’t find her, so wouldn’t she have to spend the rest of her life in this dank, crummy Florence?

All your life? Then your Paulita would be too old.

A lifetime without seeing his Adán Rouco and his Paulita. … Then he’d better die.

She would not dare to die, but would have to wait for Adán Rouco to approach her.

Shoshana Duque was pushing hard, and I could understand the old man sending her to Florence to run away, but … it wouldn’t be good for her to spend the rest of her life in hiding.

Even knowing that she and Adán Rouco were cousins and blood relatives, she still wanted to be with him, even though she was despised by everyone.

He just didn’t really have the courage to stand up to the entire Rouco family and the Rouco Group, and he feared that Adán Rouco would lose his reputation because of him.

He was the pride of the world, and his pride was not meant to be trampled on, run over and insulted.

The first night in Florence, thinking of him, still thinking of him.

At once wishing that he would come before her immediately and thinking that he should not come, and that if he did he could only feel sorry for her lack of looseness and nothing more to help her.

Estrella Berrocal knew she was incompetent, incompetent in the extreme, and this incompetence was made even more stupid by the wisdom of Adán Rouco.

He leaned back on the couch and sighed.

What if we split up and Adán Rouco takes a new wife, the kind that doesn’t look so good?

But what would be a good wife for Adán Rouco?

Someone with as much heart as Julieta Sarinana? Someone who would treat her Paulita harshly.

Adam has said that he does not like strong women.

In the end, Estrella Berrocal came to the conclusion that Adán Rouco could not bear to be near anyone if she was not the one who made him smile.

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Santino Yepes called Roberto Rouco and said: “President, tell the boss where you have hidden your wife, who has not been to the office for days and is not taking care of a lot of company business …”.

Roberto Rouco scoffed: “Are you making me do this? You tell him he can go on hunger strike like Paulita. What a way to come back to life!”.

Beep beep beep …

The phone hung up.

Santino Yepes froze for a few seconds, rubbed his nose and said to Adán Rouco: “Hang up. It seems the old man is determined to separate you and your wife this time.”

Adán Rouco walked over to the wine cabinet, picked up a bottle of brandy, poured himself a glass, took a few sips and asked, “How’s the investigation going?”

Santino Yepes shook his head, “There is still no record of any entry or exit, the old man doesn’t know what he has done.”

Seeing that Adán Rouco had drunk a lot of brandy, Santino Yepes told him: “Boss, you have a weak stomach, why don’t you drink less”.

To his surprise, Adán Rouco responded with a single word: “Bored”.

Santino Yepes was stunned. He had never heard the word “fastidioso” in Adán Rouco’s mouth.

Yes, it was natural for him to be upset that his wife was missing.

But Adán Rouco had not told Santino Yepes, not only because Estrella Berrocal had disappeared, but also because tomorrow was Christmas Eve, a day of family fun, and Estrella Berrocal was nowhere to be seen.

How could that not be annoying.

Even if he knew she was safe for the moment, what was the point of this year for him if he couldn’t see her, touch her or hold her?