Back at the hotel, in the presidential suite, mother and daughter sleep on their backs.
Paula Rouco hid under the covers with her phone and texted Severo Laris: “Severo, I can’t come back tonight, my mother came to Imperial and found out about us, and she said she wants to see you tomorrow.”
Soon, Severo Laris replied to the message: “I can see your mother”.
Paula Rouco shuddered a little, “No, the thing is, if my mother gives you a hard time, I’ll tell her you’ve gone home for the winter vacations so she won’t see you.”
Severo Laris is not the kind of person who hides when things go wrong, “If in the end we have to meet, let’s meet before, I’m not afraid that your mother will give me an upset, besides, you are young, you have a relationship with me, you are supposed to give explanations to your family, don’t fight with them because of me, eh?”
Paula Rouco was raised by The Rouco family and, at eighteen just turned eighteen, was inevitably willful, and the responsibility for her going to live with him earlier was hers.
He was seven years older than she was and much more mature and stable at heart. He did not deny that there was an element of selfishness in bringing her to live with him, wanting to keep her pure and white in a tight circle, just for him.
Even if the people of The Rouco family reproached him and gave him a hard time, he felt he deserved it, after all he had kidnapped The Rouco family’s most precious treasure.
Paula Rouco hid under the sheets and curved her lips at this message from Severo Laris.
Severo Laris will be by her side through thick and thin.
Just as I put the phone away, Estrella Berrocal’s cold voice comes from behind me, “You’re still texting him at this hour?”
“…”
Paula Rouco’s heart leapt and she turned to look, “Estrella, are you still awake?”.
“I fell asleep and you wanted to run to him?” Estrella Berrocal looked at her daughter’s innocent little face.
She bit her lip and said, “No, I was just afraid I would worry if I didn’t find him, so I texted to let you know.”
Estrella Berrocal smiled softly, “He pretty much knows what he’s doing.”
Estrella Berrocal remembered something more serious and asked, “Paulita, tell me honestly, how far did you and Severo Laris go?”
Paula Rouco’s hand under the sheets, tight, a little apprehensive, Estrella would be upset if I told her that I had done it all with Severo Laris, wouldn’t she?
When Dad finds out, he’ll have Severo Laris killed.
“No, he didn’t go anywhere.” She shut me out.
Estrella Berrocal frowned and pressed, “What step is it without, holding hands, kissing?”
She dropped her little face, “Mmm.”
Estrella Berrocal sighed in relief and opted to believe her daughter, saying, “I have to tell your father about your affair with Severo Laris. ”
“Estrella …,” she said, her little face scrunched up in misery.
Estrella Berrocal: “If you don’t tell your father voluntarily, the consequences will be worse when your father finds out passively. The fact that you and Severo Laris lived together before, I can hide it for you.”
“Really, Estrella you are very nice!”
“Don’t thank me yet, I have conditions too, I can keep your father out of your cohabitation, but only if you leave Severo Laris’ house and stop living with him, can you do that?”
Paula Rouco agreed immediately, “Yes! I will move back into the residence at the beginning of the school year and I will no longer live with Severo Laris. ”
Estrella Berrocal looked at her sincere little face and was quite satisfied, nodding, “After that it’s up to you whether I tell all this to your father or not, so … don’t even think of cheating me, besides Imperial is very close to The Holy City, you know, I have all the time in the world to fly to Imperial and assault you.”
“…”
It sounds like a luxury to stay in Imperial and eat Severo Laris’ cuisine in the future.
Paulita, you were raised in a hothouse by your father, by me and by your grandfather, and you have never seen the dangers of the human heart, and though you are an adult, you are still a child. to protect you.”
Paula Rouco nodded and said, “Estrella, I know you and Papa are trying to protect me, but Estrella, I love Severo Laris, and I have never felt that I liked anyone so much that I wanted to be with him every day, every day. Estrella, when you were in love with daddy, did you have that feeling?”
Estrella Berrocal smiled, leaned back, looked up at the chandelier on the ceiling and said softly, “Of course I did. But when I was with your father, both your father and I were real adults who could take responsibility for our actions.”
Estrella Berrocal turned her head sideways, looked at her daughter and continued, “Paulita, you are too young, you are not responsible for your actions now, if you were twenty-two now or a little older, your father and I would have stayed out of your love life.”
If Severo Laris is a calm and sensible boy, Estrella Berrocal will be relieved, but if he is a man who plays with her feelings, Paulita will be hurt by him.
“Estrella, are you so unconvinced of my vision?”
Estrella Berrocal was taken aback, she hadn’t expected such a rhetorical question from Paulita, and suddenly realized that her Paulita seemed to have grown up, out of her sight.
Paula Rouco winked and said earnestly, “Estrella, Severo is not a slut and I trust him. Just like you trusted daddy.”
Estrella Berrocal held out her hand and stroked his little head, “It’s rare to find a man who can compare with your father. I remember you saying that Angelo wasn’t as good as your father, and I always thought you weren’t interested in him because you were too young to open up emotionally. But now it seems it’s not that you’re not enlightened, you just don’t like that Angelo guy. ”
“Angelo is great, I like being friends with him and being a hairdresser, but not as a boyfriend.”
Estrella Berrocal asked curiously, “Why, you and Angelo grew up as childhood friends, so you must be very close, to put it mildly.”
Paula Rouco says, “When I wanted pears, Angelo would give me a cart full of apples, and when I wanted strawberries, Angelo would give me a bunch of carrots, and he was very, very good to me, but Angelo and I were never in the same rhythm. Angelo has a lot of girls in his life and he doesn’t just have me in his eyes, so even though he’s sad about losing me, he’s not really sad.”
“What about Severo?”
There was a serious gleam in the young woman’s eyes, “Severo Laris is bored, he doesn’t even have recreational activities, before the only two things in his life were study and work, now, there is one more thing, and that is with me.”
Estrella Berrocal never imagined that her daughter, whom she had watched grow up, would have the ideas of a young adult about relationships.
For a moment, there were mixed feelings, not knowing whether to be relieved or distressed.
Paula Rouco says, “I am important but unnecessary to Angelo, but I can feel that I am important and necessary to Severo. Without me, his life would be, really, boring.”
Estrella Berrocal laughs: “The more you say, the more I am interested in this Severo Laris, and above all I am interested in knowing how good he can be to charm my Paulita into whispering good things in my ear for him all the time. I had always known that my Paulita was intelligent and had good judgment since she was a child. But how much better could Severo be than a man like his father?”
“Papa is good, but Severo is also good to me at heart.”
Estrella Berrocal sighed, “How sad your father would be if he heard you say that.”
Adam Rouco is a true slave to his daughter.
Estrella Berrocal dreaded to think how he would react if she told him that Paulita was in love.