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When Adán Rouco left the studio, he passed by the children’s room and saw Paulita lying in Estrella Berrocal’s arms, listening to the story she was telling him.

The man stood in the doorway of the room for a long time without disturbing them.

Perhaps the scene inside was so warm and cozy that Adán Rouco did not want to disturb it, until Paulita fell asleep in her little cartoon pajamas on Estrella Berrocal’s chest, and Estrella Berrocal stroked the little girl’s back and carefully put away the children’s book she was holding, before Adán Rouco pushed open the door.

Adán Rouco lifted Estrella Berrocal from the cot and, startled, asked in a low voice, “Adán, have you finished working?”

Adán Rouco said “Yes” and took her out of the children’s room.

Estrella Berrocal struggled slightly, “Put me down, I promised Paulita I would sleep with her tonight, she’ll be mad if she doesn’t see me in the morning!”.

“If you sleep with Paulita, who will sleep with me?”.

Estrella Berrocal blushed at the man’s serious question, “You’re a big girl, why do you keep talking to Paulita?”.

Adán Rouco had always been a light sleeper, especially in the years after Analena Lozada’s death ten years earlier, when he began to suffer from depression, and he had often suffered from insomnia, even with the help of medication, but it was not uncommon for him to stay awake until dawn.

But Adán Rouco discovers that when he sleeps with Estrella Berrocal in his arms, he is calmer and more at ease.

“I need to fall asleep with you more than with Paulita.”

“…”

This sudden phrase made Estrella Berrocal’s heart flutter.

Adán Rouco’s expression was evidently serious as he said it, but Estrella Berrocal could hear the sweetness of it, knowing that it was not a love story either, but more than a love story.

“In the morning, then, you call me early and I go to Paulita’s room in the morning.”

Estrella Berrocal remembered that Paulita, like Adán Rouco, had an alarm clock, and that the milk group would be angry if she did not see it.

Adán Rouco responded with a “yes”.Belongs © to NôvelDrama.Org.

Once they were in the bedroom and on the big bed, Estrella Berrocal spontaneously and automatically turned and threw herself into his arms. “Adam, have you ever wondered if Analena Lozada was really still alive…”

The man frowned, “How can you make such assumptions?”.

“I’m just asking.”

Estrella Berrocal looked at him warily, if he had known that Analena Lozada was still alive, he would have been desperate to get Analena Lozada back with him.

She had been on the verge of leaving, and at a time like this, Analena Lozada had returned. It was as if it had been destined, even fate had wanted her to leave Adán Rouco. …

He has no way to hate him anymore, but his father’s death is still fresh in his mind, and the person who lives in his heart has always been Analena Lozada, and she leaves and Analena Lozada comes back to him, bringing everything back to square one.

She had bought her ticket to leave him, she had prepared her luggage and her plans to leave him, now she just had to say goodbye to him …

Adán Rouco had no intention of continuing the conversation with Analena Lozada, his arms were around her waist, his thin lips were on her ear, his eyes were closed and he mumbled a reminder, “I won’t be back tomorrow night after work, we’ll meet directly at the top of the Banyan Tree Hotel, after work, I’ll have Santino Yepes pick you up.”

“What’s the point of going to the Banyan Tree Hotel?”.

Adam Rouco’s thin lips curved, “A secret.”

Estrella Berrocal brushed her lips and growled softly, “And you sell yourself! But don’t bother Santino Yepes to pick me up, call me after work and I’ll take a cab there myself, wouldn’t it rather be a waste of time for Mr. Santino to go and come?”

Adam Rouco slowly opened his dark eyes and looked at the small woman in his arms with a deep smile, “Are you looking forward to it?”

“Not me, you’re the one who works up an appetite!”.

His large hand under the comforter, he touched her small hand, his fingers gently caressed the diamond ring on her ring finger and he lowered his head to kiss her forehead.

I don’t know if it was Estrella Berrocal’s sensitivity, or if it was a woman’s sixth sense, but she always felt that the surprise that Adán Rouco was going to give her tomorrow was a marriage proposal.

With teary eyes, he could not help but look at Adán Rouco.

“Looking at me like that, is that what you want?”.

“…”

Adam Rouco also looked at the time, eleven o’clock, turned to hug her and kissed her neck and cheek. “It’s late, it will be one in the morning before we do it again, I’ll satisfy you tomorrow night, eh?”

The man’s tone, a bit perverse and ungainly, was extraordinarily provocative.

Estrella Berrocal gave him an annoyed look, who wanted to do that?

Adán Rouco turned off the lamp and when he turned around, Estrella Berrocal opened her arms and embraced him in a hug.

“Adam.

The little woman in his arms called out to him in a soft, sticky voice.

“Hmm?”

Estrella Berrocal took his large hand and patted his lower back, “Do you prefer a boy or a girl?”.

The man kissed the soft, delicate nape of her neck and murmured in response, “Whatever.”

“I can’t have a random one.”

Adán Rouco laughed lightly, his hand resting on her waist gently squeezing, “Are you angry?”

Estrella Berrocal wasn’t really angry and buried herself in Adam Rouco’s neck, “I hope it’s a boy, so we can have a son and a daughter, can you name our baby?”

Adán Rouco frowned slightly and looked at the little woman in his arms in the dim light of the room. “It’s still at least eight months before the baby is born, and besides, I don’t even know the sex, so if you suddenly ask me to think of a name, it might as well be something.”

Estrella Berrocal’s mouth swelled up.

All she could think about was that tomorrow she was leaving La Ciudad Santa, leaving him, perhaps, never to see him again in her life, and she only allowed herself the luxury of thinking that Adán Rouco could give her son a name.

Later, she could tell the child that her father had given her that name.

Estrella Berrocal’s eyes watered slightly at the thought.

She was not a sad person, but the thought of leaving Adán Rouco and Paulita tomorrow made her drown with sadness.

He thought he didn’t like Adán Rouco that much, and had thought he would sacrifice everything to help his father avenge his death.

Estrella Berrocal’s warm tears slid down Adán Rouco’s arm under his head and the man was slightly stunned.

“Angry and crying when I said I would name the baby whatever name it was?”

Estrella Berrocal threw herself headfirst into his arms and, in a jocular voice, said, “Well, how are you going to name it whatever it is, casual ice cream is very tasty, do you want people to eat our baby like ice cream?”.

Adán Rouco raised his hand and gently stroked her hair, thinking that she was unstable because she was pregnant, or perhaps Estrella Berrocal was hiding her words too well and deceiving Adán Rouco.

Adán Rouco held the little woman in his arms for a long time, until Estrella Berrocal was falling asleep, when he whispered in her ear in a deep and serious voice: “If it is a girl, it will be Salbatora Rouco, and if it is a boy, Esteban Rouco. ”

Estrella Berrocal curved her lips between her arms, “Yes.”

Paula Rouco, Salbatora Rouco, Esteban Rouco … good to hear.

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