Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

On the road, each with his own thoughts.

Back at The Villas at Repulse Bay, I don’t know if it was because of her pregnancy, but after dinner and before going to bed, Estrella Berrocal was already a little sleepy.

Adán Rouco was in the studio working on his business and she soon fell asleep in his bed.

At ten o’clock, Paulita screamed for Estrella Berrocal to tell her a bedtime story and was cheered on by Adán Rouco when she came bounding through the bedroom door with her storybook.

Paulita blinked at Adán Rouco with an innocent look on her face and asked, “Daddy, I’m going to get Estrella to read me a story, why are you pulling me?”

Adán Rouco lowered his voice and said, “Estrella is sleeping and it’s getting late, so you should go to bed too.”

Paulita asked with a slight frown, “Why is Estrella in bed so early today?”

“Because Estrella has a little baby in her belly.”

Paulita was suddenly overjoyed: “Daddy, Estrella is going to have a baby brother or sister in her belly!”.

“We don’t know yet, maybe it’s a baby brother, maybe it’s a baby sister, but let’s not tell Estrella yet, okay?”.

“Yes!”

Adán Rouco put Paulita to bed and then went into the master bedroom.

Estrella Berrocal was lying on her side, her face pressed against the pillow, sleeping soundly.

Adán Rouco approaches her and sits on the edge of the bed. He reaches up to smooth his long brown hair on the pillow and is about to take his pajamas into the bathroom to shower when Estrella Berrocal’s cell phone, resting on the bedside table, rings and the screen lights up with a text message from the hospital.

Adam Rouco’s brow furrows slightly and it pricks at him.

It was a notification message about a hospital visit.

And the content, the appointment was for an abortion tomorrow morning at ten o’clock!

Adam Rouco’s dark eyes narrowed sharply.

He looked at the beautiful, calm, sleeping face of the little woman, and his dark eyes flared with anger.

Estrella Berrocal had tried to abort that child!

…

Estrella Berrocal was falling asleep when she heard the sound of water running out of the bathroom.

She was so sleepy that she put her hand to her forehead and was slow to wake up.

Was Adán Rouco in the shower?

He looked at the time on his phone, it was ten-thirty.

She had been lying in bed waiting for Adán Rouco, but the man had not come out of his bathroom until eleven o’clock.

Estrella Berrocal frowned, Adán Rouco took a shower every day and the man usually did it quickly, at most twenty minutes, but today, why was he taking so long?

Estrella Berrocal, fearing that something might happen, lifted the sheets and got out of bed, walked to the bathroom door and called out, “Adam, are you there?”

The man inside did not respond, and all he heard was the sound of running water.

Estrella Berrocal frowned, unscrewed the door and entered. As soon as he pushed the door, Estrella Berrocal called out to him, “Adam …”.

Estrella Berrocal blushed at the sight of Adán Rouco, naked and standing under the shower, bathing in a beautiful man’s body.

“I, I thought you had fainted and I came to check, I just called you, how did you…”

The words jumbled and she blushed hotly, “Since you’re fine, I’m leaving.”

She was about to turn around when the man, standing under the shower, put out his long arms and reached across her.

Estrella Berrocal screamed in surprise and would have slipped and fallen to the ground if it had not been for the support of Adán Rouco.

She was terrified for the baby she carried in her womb: “Adam …. what are you doing?”.

What came down over his head was cold water!

Estrella Berrocal, shivering with cold, raised her hand to turn off the shower faucet, but was pushed against the cold wall by Adán Rouco.

The man had been showering with cold water for who knows how long, and his body was as cold as ice!

But the coldest thing was the look on Adán Rouco’s face.

His eyes, like cold blades of ice, looked at her as if they were stabbing her!

Estrella Berrocal, frightened by that man, said nervously: “Adam … I am … cold . . turn off the cold water, will you?”

She looked at him shyly, her teeth chattering with cold.

Adam Rouco’s eyes, however, did not change a single emotion, the calm was terrible, the man’s thin, cold lips, only spat two words, “Cold?”

“Cold” … Adam I’m cold … will you turn it off?”

She wrapped her arms around herself, she just wanted to escape, but Adán Rouco was against her, he would not allow her to withdraw halfway from this shower.

Adam Rouco turned a deaf ear to the coldness of the shower, but he pressed himself tighter to it, and the coldness of his body invaded him. “Estrella, do you know how long I’ve been showering in cold water?”

He called her Estrella, but there was no emotion in those cold words, and Estrella Berrocal was a little scared of this Adán Rouco.

“How long …? Adam … what’s wrong with you?”

Suddenly, the man’s large hands, soaked with cold water, violently tore the nightgown from her body!

“Ah!”

Estrella Berrocal shrieked, without her nightgown, the cold water on her head just dripped down, the cold went straight to her bones!

She was so cold that her body was covered with goose bumps and chestnuts and she wanted to scream in aggression, “Adam I’m cold…! Let go of me!”

“Cut you loose?” Adam Rouco bullied her, his long, heatless fingers cupping her trembling chin, asking rhetorically, word for word, “Cut you loose and go to the hospital to abort our child!”

Estrella Berrocal’s shoulders shook, her heart stopped violently!

She was suddenly startled by Adam Rouco’s sharp gaze, her small hands clutched at his arm, “I did not … Adam listened to me and explained…”

“Listen to your explanation? Star, how many more lies do you have to tell me!”

Estrella Berrocal’s watery eyes twitched as the icy, stinging water came down from the shower, suddenly not so cold …

Adán Rouco, you knew I was lying to you, why didn’t you unmask me? You knew I was cheating on you, why didn’t you give me away? Did you set all this up? Did you ask Paulita to give me the grapefruit juice…?”

Adán Rouco stared at her with cold eyes, not even bothering to refute or deceive, and one definitive word came from his thin lips: “Yes”.

Estrella Berrocal cleared her mind of everything and a sad smile curved her lips, “You knew what I was up to and kept me around just to set me up in reverse, did you get me pregnant to use the child to get me to give up my revenge, or even, did you want to use the child to get me to rebel and help you against Jonathan Tasis?”

Adam Rouco is the one who really rules!

And she was just a pawn in the game!

The man’s fingers on her chin tightened, inch by inch, almost crushing her!

Adán Rouco’s dark eyes were tinged scarlet as he stared at her, “Estrella Berrocal, do you think I’m like you, that I use children as weapons?”

“Isn’t that so? You caused my father’s death, you knew that I hated you, and yet you made me carry your son in shame and discomfort towards you!

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