Rain laughed out loud, as if she had really heard something very funny, as if she hadn’t laughed like that for a long time….
When she felt Nilson’s gaze, it made her cough dryly and pause, feeling a little uncomfortable, leaving the door open because she would take this guy out in a heartbeat!
She strided over and grabbed Estela from Nilson’s arms.
-Mr. Nilson, please….
-What…?
Estela began to cry again as soon as she was in Lluvia’s arms….
Lluvia remained mute for a while….
Nilson was distressed to hear Estela’s cries and reached over to try to pick up the baby again when Lluvia stepped back to avoid him.
-Mr. Nilson, I’m afraid your sudden visit to my room in the middle of the night has tarnished your image….
Nilson’s heart went out to a crying Estela and, without thinking, he said:
-I don’t care.
Rain grew increasingly mute and again avoided her outstretched hand.
-But I do care! Please, Mr. Nilson, get out of here now, right now, immediately!
Nilson frowned, remembering that in all his life no one had ever dared to give him such a blunt order.
-Lluvia, Estela is crying, maybe if I give her a hug she’ll stop….
Lluvia looked at Estela and wanted to cry with her, but she looked up and refused energetically:
-Who do you think you are? Can you hold her in your arms and not make her cry? You can breastfeed her, can’t you?
-I can’t, you can, but she keeps crying all the time?
With that, Nilson’s eyes unconsciously rested on Lluvia’s chest….
She was in her pajamas, ready for bed, the hotel was heated and the pajamas she was wearing were not too thick, she wasn’t wearing anything underneath….
Lluvia saw this and with a burst of anger, unable to do anything with her own arms around Estela, she lifted her right foot and stomped hard on the top of her foot!
-What are you looking at, you stinking scoundrel! If you don’t get out of here, I’ll call security!
This foot had just been caught in the door, and it hurt even more when he stepped on it, but Nilson didn’t care, didn’t even dodge it, and took advantage of his distraction to pick Estela up again….
Estela’s crying stopped immediately….
-Look, I said I’ll stop crying when I get it, Estela is so good….
The second half of the sentence is addressed to Estela in his arms….
Estela looked at Nilson again and smiled, murmuring a voice no one could understand and waving her little hands to interact with him….
Rain froze, looking at Estela in his arms, smiling so happily….
Good boy, my ass!
He’s been driving her crazy at night for a few days now….
The view shifts upward and Nilson is looking at Estela in his arms, the fine locks of hair falling down her forehead, looking soft, the expression on her face so warm, her thin upturned lips, revealing her joy, as if holding the source of her joy in her arms….
She withdrew the leg that had been on the back of Nilson’s foot, her fist clenched, as she squinted and stepped back.
-Did Mr. Nilson come in the middle of the night just to come and hug Estela?
-Hmm.
Nilson admitted dryly, gently rocking the girl in his arms, remembering something and raising his eyes to look at her.
-Besides, when are you going back to Echave City?
The natural, casual tone, as if they had known each other for years, the deep eyes fixed on her?
Rain looked up at him and met his gaze, her little fist in her side clenched again, obviously she wanted to displease him, but with him looking at her like that, she couldn’t really say anything, biting her lip and unconsciously replying:
-Come back the day after tomorrow….
Nilson frowned slightly, his consciousness slightly receding, attracted again, like last time, by her little gesture and unconsciously looked at her lips….
The atmosphere is inexplicably enchanting….
Rain’s breath hitched for a few moments and her heartbeat raced as she jerked to turn around, but suddenly Nilson had an arm around Estela and, with one hand, moved very quickly to grab her arm, pulling it slightly in her direction, lowering his head and moving closer….
Rain grabbed the hem of his pajamas, feeling his breath, her brain commanded her to move away, but her eyes slowly closed uncontrollably….
-Mrs. Alcocer, your take-out…..
The door opened, suddenly emerged, the little man in the yellow delivery suit, looking at the two men who quickly parted, an embarrassed look appeared on his face….
-Hey, so what, if you want to make out, you should close the door as well?
Then he placed the bag he was carrying in his hand on the shoe cabinet at the entrance, raised one hand in an apologetic gesture and held the door handle with the other.
-I don’t see anything, you go on, go on…”.
Then he slammed the door shut….
Nilson looks at Lluvia a few steps away and again mixed emotions arise in his heart….
What’s wrong with her, why has she suddenly come back…?
The touch of her arm is still in the palm of his left hand, so thin….
Such a self was unfamiliar to him, and suddenly remembering what he had just wanted to say, he coughed dryly and felt that the time had come to pronounce himself.
-I’m sorry…
Rain knew that she too had gotten carried away and kissed the delivery man when he arrived, and had typed a random paragraph of his words:
-What’s there to apologize for, didn’t you get a kiss? It’s not too late to apologize when you get a kiss…?
Then he fell violently silent, hating to bite his own tongue….
The atmosphere became a little more uncomfortable and Nilson remembered what he had just wanted to say and changed the subject:
-I’ll take you tomorrow, Moya’s due for her postnatal recovery checkup, you’ve always done her checkups, it’s safer for you to do them for her.
Moya…
Lluvia came to her senses, and for a moment her heart was suddenly empty for a few moments….
-A check-up for Moya would be fine, naturally, but you will excuse yourself from sending me back.
Said the man who came up to take Estela and saw his daughter squinting in his arms and going to sleep….
This time Nilson held Estela and turned slightly to avoid him.
-Aren’t you hungry? You eat first and I’ll get it.
Rain paused, thinking he’d put her to sleep before, but she woke up later, repeatedly, and feared that if she didn’t eat enough she wouldn’t be able to feed her in the middle of the night if she cried again, so she didn’t refuse again and rolled over to grab the takeout from the shoe closet.
Nilson relieved, great not to be thrown out for now….
Looking at the soft little body in his arms, his little pink face as tender as tofu….
So cute…
Why so cute…
Can’t get enough of visiting…
Rain sat at the round glass table by the window with her take-out, not even looking at Nilson.
Nilson felt her sweeping in front of him, looked up and walked over as well, hugged Estela and sat down across from her.
Lluvia is unpacking and as she opens the lid, the rich aroma hits the nose.
She ordered pig’s feet and peanut soup in a big bowl!
Nilson looked at the huge, hearty bowl of soup and froze for half a second, wondering:
-So much soup in the middle of the night?
Valle looked at the oil floating on top, a little disgusting, stirring with a soup spoon, uh, the ingredients put quite a lot, and for a moment forgot to point at the person in front of him, muttering:
-You think I want to drink it, all this lactation soup every day, it really makes me want to puke, but it’s better than going to buy formula for Estela and it’s cheaper than formula too….
Half-heartedly, remembering who was sitting across from him, she gave him a disgusted look and lowered her head to drink the soup.
Nilson sniffed, but his heart shrank: was he forcing himself to drink the soup because he didn’t have enough milk?
I felt so stupid for buying Estela so much stuff and not knowing how to buy powdered milk, and I said:
-I can buy formula milk for Estela?
Lluvia had the soup spoon in her hand, blew on it and was putting it in her mouth when she sniffed and raised her eyes to look at him.
-What do you know, breastfeeding is the best!
Nilson kept his mouth shut, very wisely, so as not to discuss this with the gynecologist, and watched as she pulled out a piece of pig’s foot, the color of which looked good….
-Gollum Gollum….
Nilson had hungry rumblings coming from his stomach…