Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

At the end of the day, Adán Rouco had gone to the bathroom to take a shower and Estrella Berrocal had just come out of the bathroom, her hair still wet, and was about to dry herself with a towel when her phone rang.

He scanned it for an MMS message from Lucrecia Javier and dropped the towel to look at it unconsciously.

As soon as she opened it, Estrella Berrocal’s face turned white as a sheet at what she saw on the screen.

Another text message from Lucrecia Javier followed, and even through the screen, Estrella Berrocal could feel his petulant tone of voice….

“Adam is incredibly happy in bed with me and we have taken many intimate photos of each other, I can send them all to you if you want to see them.”

The photos showed the lower half of a man’s body.

Estrella Berrocal only looked at it for a second before she put the screen of her phone back on the bed and the pit of her throat began to choke with an indescribable nausea.

Although he knew that Adán Rouco had been set up by Lucrecia Javier, he still felt bad about it.

Now that Lucrecia Javier has provoked her again, she feels even more uncomfortable.

When Adán Rouco comes out of the shower, he finds Estrella Berrocal sitting dazedly on the edge of the bed, distracted and rambling.

The man walks up to her and runs his large hand through her damp hair, “Why don’t you dry your hair?”.

Estrella Berrocal was stunned, then looked at his handsome, deep face and suddenly wrapped her arms around his strong waist and rubbed her face against his chest. “I don’t want to move, you can dry it off for me.”

His sudden spontaneity made Adán Rouco a bit uncomfortable.

He was standing and she was sitting, a position that was comfortable to hold.

Adán Rouco let her hug him, picked up the towel he had thrown on the bed and dried her long, damp hair with the gentlest of gestures.

Estrella Berrocal smelled his fresh and pleasant aroma after the bath and sank into a deeper embrace.

Adán Rouco frowned slightly and asked in a muffled voice, “Since when did you become as spoiled as Paulita?”

Estrella Berrocal was bored for quite a while before asking the question that was on her mind: “If … Lucrecia Javier were really pregnant, would you let her abort the baby?”.

Adán Rouco teased her, “Or what, keep the baby to raise?”.

“Why am I going to raise Lucrecia Javier’s baby if I have my Paulita?”.

The man curved his lips, dried her hair and then, seeing her distracted, finally said, “Lucrecia Javier is not pregnant.”

“What do you mean?” asked Estrella Berrocal incredulously, “but Lucrecia Javier also showed me the pregnancy test.”

“She showed you a pregnancy test and you believed it, Olivia Montes showed you a DNA report and you also believed it, Estrella, you seem to believe them more than me.”

Estrella Berrocal’s face heated up, she was getting worried, if it was anyone else she would have been sensible, but how could she be when it was all about her relationship with him.

Before, she thought she had only fallen in love with Adán Rouco, but now she realized that she had fallen in love with him.

Seeing her pursed and silent lips, the man spoke coldly and without delay, “Even if Lucretia Javier were to become pregnant, I would not let her keep the baby.”

“But have you thought about what would happen if Lucrecia Javier had to keep the baby?”.

“If she refused to abort the child, then the womb would be removed.”

Even Estrella Berrocal shuddered when Adán Rouco uttered these words with nonchalance.

There was something about Adam Rouco, so cold and somber, that made her shudder.

But she couldn’t help but be charmed by him.

He liked Adán Rouco, he liked everything about him, even his determined spirit.

Speaking of children, Estrella Berrocal couldn’t resist saying, “There’s something I’ve always wanted to ask you.”

“Ask.

“Three years ago, why did you get a surrogate?

There are many women who want to have children with Adán Rouco, so why did you decide to get a surrogate in secret, because you didn’t want to stay with a difficult woman?

But a child with a woman you have no feelings for, can you be sure you will like the child?

“And why did you want a child if you clearly weren’t married three years ago?”

Just to cope with the old man’s marriage request?

Adán Rouco had always been strict and calm in his actions, and something so impulsive was clearly not a decision he could make.

She must have thought long and hard if she turned to a surrogate to have a child.

Estrella Berrocal’s watery eyes stared at him, expecting him to give her a different answer, but instead he said in a nonchalant tone, “I just wanted a son for fun and I didn’t want to be stuck with a woman.”

“…”

Estrella Berrocal frowned slightly in half-truth.

She was thinking about it when Adán Rouco suddenly put his arm around her back and whispered in her ear: “But now I would like to be glued to this woman”.

Estrella Berrocal’s heart warmed and she confessed: “I thought that the surrogacy I had three years ago had ruined my life, although it was my choice, but it prevented me from having a normal relationship and a normal married life. Adam, thank you for giving me that precious Paulita”.

She is also grateful to the destiny that led her to meet and reconnect with Adán Rouco, a man she approached with an ulterior motive at first, not thinking that he would be the father of her child.

In retrospect, there’s something magical about it all, maybe it was meant to be.

Adán Rouco kissed her and told her: “Paulita has given me a lot of joy in these three years and I am very happy.

He had been in top form for three years and had hardly been sick, and he probably owed it to Paulita.

Paulita’s arrival has warmed his icy heart, like a melting glacier, and when Paulita is a little older, talkative, calls him “daddy” and cuddles him, Adán Rouco’s heart is fuller than ever.

Estrella Berrocal arched her eyebrows and smiled at him, “Will you tell me more about Paulita before she turns three?”

“Good.”

…

Early the next morning, when Estrella Berrocal arrived at the design department of Yahua Film and Television Company, she was called by Tulio Moralez to Jonathan Tasis’ office.

“President Jonathan, you wanted to see me?”

Jonathan Tasis pulled out a purple rectangular jewelry box and handed it to her.

“Open it up and take a look.”

Estrella Berrocal was stunned and didn’t pick up, “President Jonathan?”.

“Don’t worry, it’s not for you, I’m asking you to help me make a sampler of this bracelet.”

Estrella Berrocal then took it and opened the jewelry box, finding a diamond bracelet with a simple and stylized design, “This bracelet is very special, especially the design of its chain and the facets of the diamond are brilliant and three-dimensional.”

“It’s a new basic that our company will launch next season.”

Estrella Berrocal wondered, “And how come there are no sample drawings?”.Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“It took me a month to make it myself, this is just a sample, once you have drawn the details of the sample, you can take it upon yourself to make the authentic custom product.”

Estrella Berrocal did not expect Jonathan Tasis to be so artisanal, this sample bracelet, could have been sold directly over the counter.

“Well, I should be able to work it out and deliver it to you tomorrow.”

Without giving it much thought, Estrella Berrocal grabbed the jewelry box and left the office.

Jonathan Tasis took out his wallet, looked at the photo of the young woman in it, smiled wickedly and said in one word: “Analena, what Adán Rouco owes you I will make him pay back little by little. He’s been too comfortable these past three years, and I’m not going to let him stay that comfortable.”

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