Micaela blushes a little as she listens to their conversation, a little embarrassed, and then she remembers that Diego is here, that she heard Carlos and Diego talking on the phone in the car yesterday, and she is about to greet him when Yerma’s surprised voice comes from the other side of the open door.
-Moya, is the baby out?
Then came the cheerful voice of Mrs. Echave:
-Come on, let me hug my grandson too?
They all turned at once to look.
Yerma is holding Mrs. Echave and next to her is a maid with a thermos in her hand.
Lluvia thought it wouldn’t be her turn to talk to Moya for a while, so she explained some notes, told her she would come down to see her later and left.
Carlos carefully handed the child to Mrs. Echave, who was so happy that all the wrinkles on her face stretched, looked at the child and said excitedly:
-My little heart me, you are the new hope for our Echave family…..
She said and carried the baby towards the sofa.
Carlos and Micaela know that Dona Echave means that the child can grow up without having to grow up in Salamonsa and can escape from a country where there are too many ties….
Yerma was also exultant and looked at the child in Dona Echave’s arms and at Carlos, who had taken the maid’s thermos to the table, before looking at her daughter and asking:
-Moya, how does your body feel now?
Yesterday she wanted to stay and take care of Moya and help her to wash and change but Carlos refused and made her a very firm promise that he would do so and let her go back to rest….
This is such an overbearing but considerate virtue for Moya, it really makes her mother-in-law more and more satisfied….
Micaela looked at her grandmother as she sat on the couch and replied:
-Well, I’m fine, I slept well and now I feel very relaxed through…..
Yerma looked at her daughter and last night, when Carlos was inside with Moya, she asked Diego about Moya’s body’s resistance to drugs.
Diego didn’t hold back, he told the truth.
It turns out that Moya’s body has changed so much since she left Salamonsa that she rarely gets sick, any medication is discounted and her body recovers extremely well?
As at this moment, her physique, her mental state, is absolutely incomparable to that of any woman who has just given birth for a dozen hours….
And all because of that vaccine….
Yerma looked at Carlos again with mixed feelings and remembered with a jolt that almost a third of the three months had passed….
Carlos prepared breakfast and reached over and took Micaela’s hand and headed to the table….
-The girls have breakfast first.
Yerma nods.
-Yes, you all have breakfast first, Moya, mom has made the soup especially for you, make sure you drink it.
She says heading to the sofa to see the little one….
Carlos settles her at the table and Micaela looks at Diego, who is standing to the side, and finally has the chance to greet him.
-Diego, have you had breakfast yet?
Diego smiled and answered:
-They ate, you and Mr. Carlos ate.
Looking at the two men at the table, Diego sighed in his mind that it had been a long time since he had seen Mr. Carlos and Miss Micaela, eating together?
Micaela had so many questions for Diego, but when she got the let’s-talk-after-meal look from the man across the room, she had to have breakfast first.
The first day after giving birth it is not advisable to eat too greasy, breakfast is light and nutritionally balanced. She had in front of her a big bowl of soup more than Carlos, she tasted it and it tasted good, indeed she was hungry and immediately focused on filling her stomach.
After breakfast, the maids came over to put away the silverware and Micaela immediately looked at Diego and asked him:
-Diego, when did you come?
-I arrived in Salamonsa the same day Mr. Nilson took you.
Seeing that she seemed anxious to hear him explain, Diego explained briefly:
-After learning that Mr. Carlos had left Anlandana, we presumed that Mr. Carlos had come to Salamonsa based on his trail, and after discussing with Mr. Tomas, Mr. Ernesto, I decided that I would come first to Salamonsa to meet Mr. Carlos, and when I was changing planes in Nation Ode, Mr. Moses called me and I had the exact location of Mr. Carlos and soon found Mr. Carlos.
Micaela listened, her eyes full of surprise.
-What a coincidence that Moses came to Salamonsa and left again at that moment, otherwise I’m afraid you wouldn’t have found this… so quickly when you arrived in Salamonsa.
Diego nodded his head.
-It really is a testament to the saying ‘It was meant to be’ that your bond with Senor Carlos was not so easily broken.
Carlos’ eyes darkened a little, Diego had already told him that he and the girl would be separated thanks to Elsa, Moses’ mother, who was expected to help him, but in the end, she had set him up….
At first he had suspected that Elsa had done it so that Moses would have a chance with the girl, but now it didn’t seem to be the case, so why had she done it?
Y…
She looked at Diego and frowned a little, earlier she had a vague feeling that there was something else that Diego wasn’t telling her?
Micaela asked excitedly, remembering her friends:
-Diego, did Bianca and Alba give birth while you were here?
Micaela thought, Bianca should have given birth, she was pregnant early?
Carlos also looked over…
Diego answered truthfully:
-Neither of the two had given birth yet when I arrived, and according to Mr. Tomas, the second young woman’s due date is long overdue.
Micaela was instantly worried, it had been brought forward and postponed, and for a long time, Bianca and Tomas were worried beyond belief….
Carlos, however, raised an eyebrow, and a premonition arose in his mind that his son had probably been born before Tomas’ baby, after all….
There was a knock at the door and Diego turned to answer it.
It was the doctor and nurse who came to see them and let them in. Carlos explained that Diego had gone to the office and was still presiding over the plan to reactivate the new economy of Ciudad Echave, and Diego nodded and left.
Both the acting Lord and the future Lord being here, the doctor was naturally attentive, asking many questions with concern and explaining many precautions, and as he prepared to leave, he added:
-When the baby wakes up later, you can breastfeed, sure there is not enough for the baby in the first few days, you can take more soup to increase the milk and let the baby suckle more, it will encourage milk production.
Yerma nods her head.
-They gave it to Moya to drink.
Micaela was stunned….. Was what she had just drunk breastfeeding?
As soon as the doctor left, the baby cried and Micaela immediately got up in a hurry and went to the sofa, Carlos ran after her.
It was the first time he had heard a baby cry, quite loud and very loud and clear….
-Ewwwwwww, the little heartbreaker must be hungry, Moya, feed him fast….
Micaela picked up the baby and the baby’s cry immediately changed tone, as if he knew there was food, opening his little mouth and arching to the left and right….
Micaela sat down on the couch, suddenly with some difficulty, with six pairs of eyes all around her….
On, Anxiety of a new mother…
Gritting her teeth, Micaela tried to pull up her shirt and was held down by Carlos, who was sitting next to her….
Knowing her daughter as well as her mother did, Yerma knew what her daughter was shy about, and Carlos’ actions were even more so as he took Dona Echave’s arm with a smile on his face.
-Mom, we have met the children and the food has been delivered, so go back first.
Mrs. Echave, an old man with an old heart, also understood in an instant that Moya, a girl with really thin skin, was no match for Carlos’ virtues as a wife’s advocate and rose happily.
-Well, Carlos, Moya, we will go first and come back to see you at noon.
Carlos was relieved and immediately got up to open the door for them. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went out into the hallway, the maid followed them with a thermos bucket, Mrs. Echave again a little uneasy.
-Neither Carlos nor Moya have experience in taking care of children.
Yerma smiles.
-Don’t worry, there are professional babysitters at the hospital, so if you can’t manage, Carlos will take care of it.
Yes, the babysitters are much more professional than them, Carlos surely doesn’t want to go to the office today, Yerma has to go….
Mrs. Echave was relieved and thought about going back and having the kitchen maid prepare lunch for Moya….
In the living room, Carlos closed the door and turned to the sofa, the crying had stopped and he saw the girl lift up a piece of her dress, exposing a snow-white patch of skin on one side of her waist, and turn to the closet to get a coat.
By maternal instinct, Micaela naturally knows how to breastfeed, and looking at her son’s face, she has a vague feeling that he is happy, she’s just not sure if he is drinking something or not….
Carlos sat down next to the woman and put his coat on her. Micaela blushed and felt Carlos’ eyes land directly on her chest and felt her face burn, her voice low and full of shyness:
-Carlos, don’t look at me…..
Carlos frowned slightly, looked at his son with mixed feelings and, after a long moment, said:
-Micaela, I’m so jealous of him.