When the guests dispersed, the Rouco family compound was in disarray after all the fun and games.
Siblings Paula Rouco and Lucio Rouco entered the villa with a head full of cake foam.
Estrella Berrocal couldn’t help but laugh at the sight of the two siblings with the white cake in their hair, which looked a bit comical.
“Did you fall into the cake?”
Lucio Rouco stood up and pulled his short hair, which was already dirty with cream, and deliberately scoffed, “I only hit my sister once with a cake, but Angelo took it and rubbed it on my face and head, I said, “My sister is not married yet to The Vasconcellos family, Angelo is too protective of his daughter-in-law. He is even more protective of his wife than our father.”
Paula Rouco glared at her brother, “What are you talking about! I am good friends with Angelo.
Lucio Rouco laughed wryly as if he had heard some joke: “Brother Angelo would probably be heartbroken if he heard you say that.”
Paula Rouco ran to Estrella Berrocal and wrapped her arms around her, “Mom, my brother is talking nonsense!”.
Estrella Berrocal stifled a faint smile and glared at her son, “Your sister is only eighteen and hasn’t even started college, what do you mean marrying someone else? If your father finds out, he’ll beat you to death.”
Lucio Rouco shrugged, “Hmph, in my father’s eyes, no man in the world is good enough for my sister. In fact, I’m serious, my sister has such a temper that only Brother Angelo puts up with her, I can’t stand her.”
Paula Rouco picked up a pillow from the sofa and threw it at Lucio Rouco: “Go take a bath and keep talking nonsense, I’ll tell daddy later and he’ll fix you!”.
Lucio Rouco picked up the pillow and threw it back on the couch. “Sister, I tell you, if you really don’t like Brother Angelo, tell someone before it’s too late, so he won’t have to be embarrassed to see Brother Angelo in the future. ”
Estrella Berrocal looked at her thirteen year old son and could not help but smile, “Lucio, you are only thirteen years old, why are you so big, what do you know about likes or dislikes?”
Paula Rouco complained, “Mom, I’m telling you, Lucio has fallen in love early. I get goose bumps when I read them!”.
“Really?”
Estrella Berrocal is surprised that Adam Rouco has just entered the house when she hears early love.
“Who’s in love first?” asked Adam Rouco.
Lucio Rouco touched his nose when he saw his father coming and immediately turned his head and ran to his bedroom, “I’m going to take a shower!”.
Adam Rouco saw his son run off angrily and frowned slightly, “What has the boy done to lose his mind?”.
“Dad, my brother has fallen in love early!”
Adam Rouco raised an eyebrow, a little surprised. “I didn’t see someone who usually talks less at home being so flamboyant at school.”
Paula Rouco peeled an orange and teased, “Dad, do you ever get the impression that your brother is just like you, the uptight environmentalist?”
Estrella Berrocal: “…. Ahem, Paulita, go wash up too, you’ve had a long day”.
Paula Rouco put down her orange, said “Oh” and got up to leave.
Adam Rouco froze for a moment and raised his hand to call her, “Paulita, come back here, what did you just say?”.
Paula Rouco turned around and obediently approached Adam Rouco, pretending to be careless, “Dad, I didn’t say anything, I said I was very happy to have my birthday today.”
She said it with a goofy smile to Adam Rouco.
Adam Rouco looked at his daughter with a straight face, “Do you even know what a sulky man looks like?”.
“…”
She’s eighteen, shouldn’t she know?
And does Dad know that she and her best friend Susana secretly read the Little Yellow Book of the Bully every day?
Adam Rouco added with a sullen look, “I don’t care if Lucio’s brat falls in love before his time, but you can’t give me love before my time.”
Paula Rouco pursed her lips, “Daddy, am I a neglected child? Why don’t you let your brother fall in love early and me you won’t let me?”
“Do you care so much that you’re really in love before your time?” Adam Rouco frowned.
Paula Rouco waved her hands hurriedly, “None of that!”.
“Then why are you nervous?”
Paula Rouco bites her lip and mutters to herself: she’s eighteen, not in love at all!
“That’s it, Dad, you and Mom rest, I’m going to my room!”
Adam Rouco, seeing that she was outwardly obedient, responded lightly and said, “School starts in a few days, so I’ll send you to Imperial with your mother then. ”
“Okay. Dad, Mom, good night.”
When Paula Rouco ran upstairs, Estrella Berrocal looked amused at Adam Rouco.
“Looks like she’s keeping a closer eye on her daughter as she grows up.”
Adam Rouco sat down next to his wife, “If I don’t keep a close eye on him, Angelo will drag Paulita to a hotel tonight, believe it or not.”
Estrella Berrocal almost burst out laughing: “Is it as far-fetched as you make it sound? Because I think Angelo is a good guy, even if Paulita is with him, I’m very comfortable.”
Adam Rouco said with disgust: “Angelo the brat, he doesn’t even have character, what’s he good for?”.
Estrella Berrocal turned her head to look at the handsome face of the man next to her, his chin resting on his arm, and just looked at him, “Do you think you are the best man in the world?”.
Adam Rouco raised an eyebrow and looked at his wife, “Don’t you?”.
Estrella Berrocal, “Narcissist. I’m not going to talk to you anymore, I’m very tired today, I’m going to wash up and go to sleep”.
Just as she got up, Adam Rouco broke her wrist and dragged her to sit on his lap.
Estrella Berrocal struggled to her feet, “This is the living room, what are you doing?”.
It would be humiliating for Papa or the maid or whatever to come by later and see them like this.
The man’s large hands, tightened around her waist and his dark eyes bore into her, “What are you saying, of course you do what couples are supposed to do.”
“…”
Adam Rouco pulled her down for a kiss and then took her in his arms as they kissed and walked toward the bedroom.
Paula Rouco leaned over the railing upstairs, watching every move downstairs, and laughed out loud.
Dad and Mom are so close!
When will she ever find a man as reliable as her father?
A man like Dad, handsome, loving and devoted, a man like that is probably extinct.
…
On the wide double bed, everything falls into place.
The air in the bedroom still had an element of passion that had not dissipated.
Estrella Berrocal, lying wearily in Adam Rouco’s arms, lifted her sweaty little face and asked, “Adam Rouco, are you really human?”
Adam Rouco frowned slightly at the question and raised his hand to smack her upside the head, “What are you talking about, I’m not human, so I was a ghost that you were having sex with?”
Estrella Berrocal’s mouth twisted, “…. You’re not a youngster either, how come you still have so much energy?”.
She looked lovingly and tenderly at her husband. She had to say that face was truly blessed by the heavens, wasn’t it?
Adam Rouco put his arms around his little wife and kissed her temple, “Isn’t that enough to satisfy you with energy?”
After all these years of marriage, he kissed her temple with pity and affection.
Estrella Berrocal approached him, rested her forehead on his and put her arms around his neck.
“Adam Rouco, did you secretly take the elixir of eternal youth without telling me?”
“If there is such an elixir, I certainly won’t have it for myself. Mr. Adam will be with Mrs. Adam, for all eternity.”
Estrella Berrocal blushed, smiled sweetly at him and snuggled into his arms, spoiled like a child, in love.