Micaela’s nose hurts….
Alba went from thinking she was dead, to knowing she was actually alive and kicking in Salamonsa, to finally speaking today and seeing herself on video, Alba’s excitement and joy, she could relate to it all, and she could also imagine how upset and shattered Alba was with that news of her death, especially when the body was even recovered….
After a long while, Micaela stifled three words.
-Me too.
Carlos turned off the video and approached the woman, coaxing her easily:
-Micaela, you’re going to break my heart, don’t cry…..
Micaela hugged him, her little face resting on his shoulder, smelling his familiar scent, trying to calm her emotions, and let out a low meow.
She is truly happy and blissful now, with the person she loves most by her side, with a lovely son and good friends in touch, but the thought of Carlos counting the hours here, of whether he will die soon after leaving Salamonsa, lifts her heart with a strong feeling of dismay….
How could she let him go, she hated to stop time…..
The tears flowed faster and Carlos felt his heart break as his shoulders were wet with the girl’s tears, hugging her even tighter, thinking he was just sad to finally connect with Alba.
-Don’t cry anymore, silly, from now on you can contact her every day, huh?
Micaela sobbed twice and tried to control her emotions, there were still more than two months to go, make the most of them….
She straightened up, her eyes tear-stained and water-tinted.
-Carlos, I love you.
Carlos’s heart skipped a beat and he gently wiped the tears from his cheeks, which had spilled over Alba, and asked with some jealousy:
-More in love with me or with Alba?
He was disgusted to ask such a childish question, but he had just asked it?
-I love you more.
Alba has Ernesto’s love and they can be together until they grow old, as well as Katarina, Olivia and Bianca, who already have their own homes and she is so relieved that she just wants to spend the rest of her time loving the man who loves her as if he were her life…..
Carlos was now satisfied, his deep eyes full of love, and he moved in to kiss her again….
Mike’s screams resounded!
Micaela immediately pushed him away, got up and headed for the double bed.
Carlos gritted his teeth and repressed the urge to drag the woman back….
The son divides the girl’s attention from herself!
The thing is, he still can’t get the girl back!
The girl would be furious if she actually left her son there crying. Half the time, she would get up anyway and they would walk over together.
After spending the day with the baby, they both discovered a pattern. There were only 2 reasons why the child cried, she was hungry, she pooped, and the rest of the time she was sleeping.
Micaela’s first thought was that Mike must be hungry and she was about to pick him up when Carlos beat her to it, saying in a deep voice:
-Go sit down on the sofa.
Micaela, somewhat speechless and helpless at Carlos’ approach, meekly turned to the couch and sat down.
There, on the couch, was a small plastic stool she had gone to buy especially this morning.
She sits down, lifts one foot up on the little stool and Mike is pulled into her arms by Carlos….
Carlos remembered that Mike weighed “5 pounds” and that he had to pick him up and put him in her arms for each feeding, with the foot stool at the right height, Mike lying in her arms, his little head resting on his mother’s arm, with no effort on Micaela’s part….
Mrs. Echave congratulated him at noon for this gesture, saying that Carlos’s attention was unparalleled….
At that moment, Carlos sat down next to Micaela and, as usual, took the jacket next to her and threw it on his back, even though the room was heated and it was not cold.
The woman blushed sweetly, for she had not been able to protest against his gaze all day.
-Micaela, Mike is so happy.
Micaela turned her head away, not wanting to pay attention to him. Half the time, she looked down at her son in her arms, and really felt that Mike’s little expression was happy and content.
She once read in a book that breastfeeding is the time when the child feels the most secure and creates a mother-child bond….
Two more months of breastfeeding and Mike will have to drink formula….
Micaela can’t help but feel a little sad again….
There was a knock at the door, it must have been Mrs. Echave and Yerma on their way here, and Carlos got up to answer it.
He entered with a lunch box in one hand and a plastic bag in the other, and saw his daughter breastfeeding, a standard and most comfortable posture that made him pay another compliment to Carlos:
-Carlos, you’ve been shopping for the stool, haven’t you? I didn’t even think about it this morning, you’re so meticulous!
Carlos nodded slightly, picked up the lunch box and went to put the food on the table.
Yerma doesn’t mind Carlos’ cold attitude, she has been in contact with the company for so long that she has realized that Carlos is only affectionate with Moya….
She sighed in her mind that Moya would have been happy with him, unfortunately?
-Mom, why isn’t Grandma coming?
Mike asked as he ate his fill and voluntarily shook his head while Micaela smoothed his clothes.
Grandma had spent a lot of time at noon with the maids and had said she would come in the afternoon, but this time only her mother came.
Yerma came over, sat down next to her daughter and took Mike.
-Your brother-in-law and your aunt, pestering Grandma to beg Sonia to pay her bail.
Now that the case had been filed, the story came out naturally. When Yerma and Mrs. Echave found out, both were adamant, especially Yerma. Sonia was going to hurt her daughter, and she certainly wasn’t going to be soft-hearted, so the two couples harassed Mrs. Echave, and as soon as she opened her mouth, Yerma had to give Mrs. Echave a bad face.
Micaela paused, silently, remembering that at noon the grandmother had not yet said a word about it.
Carlos came over to take Micaela to dinner and said in a low voice:
-We have no right to interfere in Mrs. Echave’s decisions, know that I will protect you.
Micaela nodded and was obediently taken to dinner.
Sitting at the table and looking at the big bowl of soup, Micaela resisted a little, as she used to get up more often to go to the bathroom if she drank more water at night, but now that she was a “cow”, she was determined to drink it!
They were eating and Yerma remembered the ingredients she had brought and got up to put Mike to bed. Mike raised his little arms and stretched, without crying or fussing, which made Yerma’s heart melt. The boy had definitely come out Carlos, no fussing, and he would probably be a great player when he grew up!
-Mike stay still while Grandma goes to get Mommy’s snack.
With that, he picked up his things and headed for the kitchen, which was separated by a glass wall.
The kitchen in the VIP room has simple utensils and she prepared the ingredients to make chicken soup for Moya. The family maid washed and chopped everything, put it in the pot, added water and slowly simmered it.
When she came out and saw that Mike was already a little sleepy and his eyes were slowly squinting, Yerma asked:
-Has the baby had a bath?
answered Micaela at the table:
-The nurse took him to wash him at lunchtime.
Carlos accompanied him and when he returned from the hug, Micaela felt that Mike was even more handsome and smelled good….
-No wonder I find the baby more handsome and appetizing.
It’s really a mother-daughter connection, they all want the same thing….
-Does the baby have a name yet?
Yerma asked again.
-Mike.
Carlos answers.
Yerma looks up and Carlos explains:
– “Micaela” for “far away”.
Yerma pauses, with her eyes a little far away….
Micaela’s heart was in her mouth, her mother must have remembered her father.
Wait…
Yerma’s surprised reaction to seeing that she had made it through yesterday was to regain her memory?
Micaela knew what her mother was shocked about and volunteered:
-Mom, Carlos remembers everything.
Yerma felt a little overcome with emotion, and her admiration for Carlos grew, knowing for the first time that someone could resist the effects of that drug:
-It’s good to think about it…
After eating and taking a short break, Carlos put Micaela in the shower.
Micaela watched her son fall asleep playing by himself and went to take a bath as instructed.
Yerma sat on the edge of the bed, tucked Mike in and asked:
-Carlos, do you want me to stay and help take care of Mike tonight?
Carlos walked over, hands in his pants pockets, and stood in front of Yerma.
-No, I can watch the kids and Micaela.
After a pause, he added:
-Aunt, eight months ago I had planned to bring Micaela back.
Yerma’s movements stopped and she looked at him…..
-I had known for a long time that there was some kind of “contract” about Micaela. It was said that the term was fifteen years, and I had planned to bring her back to break the “contract” when that competition was over, I even contacted your best friend, Elsa, Moses’ mother, but to my surprise, the plan fell apart, but the result didn’t change anything, Micaela and I are still here, now, can you… Can you tell me what it would take to break the “contract” about Micaela?