Lluvia was surprised once again….
Leila looked at her as if she had not reacted and took another step forward with glee.
My aunt likes me too, I’m the most suitable daughter-in-law for the Borranio family!
Lluvia looked at Leila critically, she couldn’t say she knew Nilson well, but she certainly believed he was a man devoted to her feelings….. He hadn’t looked at anyone until he had gone down to Moya…. If he was interested in the woman in front of him, he wouldn’t have come back to mess with her….
When the woman hadn’t said a year ago, she had a slight suspicion that Nilson might actually be having an ulterior motive with her, but the fact that the woman had mentioned a year ago made Lluvia wonder if this woman might be talking about the same night she had spent with Nilson….
She asked timidly:
-The place where you and Nilson had a one-night stand, the Four Seasons Hotel in River City?
Leila froze and unconsciously asked in turn:
-How do you know?
It’s true!
Lluvia burst out laughing….
She’s too well protected by her brother Ian to come fighting with Lluvia like this, with the press in between. She’s not afraid of angering Nilson and involving her brother….
Didn’t Ian tell Leila that it was Lluvia that night for fear of blowing up his sister?
Leila was furious, Lluvia’s laugh sounded like she was laughing at her insolence, yes, she wanted to blow that up today and let all of Salamonsa know that she and Nilson were already married and she was going to force Nilson to take responsibility!
-Shameless, what are you laughing at!
Leila screamed and was about to slap her in the face when Lluvia cut her hand.
Lluvia looks coldly at Leila.
-Nilson’s mother likes you so much that you could marry her mother, and Estela likes you even though she’s not Nilson’s daughter! Believe it or not, I can tell you that I didn’t seduce Nilson!
There was a chuckle in the room as Lluvia moved a little closer to Leila and lowered her voice to ask:
-And, Miss Leila, do you want to know why I know the Four Seasons Hotel?
Leila’s heart trembled at the look he gave her, and her wrist ached even more where he squeezed it, but she wanted to know that only she and her brother, Nilson, and Aunt Xiao, who she had told, knew about the one-night stand….
Rain lowered her voice even further and said:
-Ask your brother, not only does he know why I know, he also knows who Estela’s real father is.
Then, with a single force, she released Leila, who staggered a step, holding her wrist with one hand, painfully pinched by Lluvia, and was about to speak when another woman’s voice sounded from outside:
-Excuse me, is Dr. Lluvia in this infirmary? Mr. Nilson has ordered me to come and attend to Estela.
What?
The people blocking the door moved aside and a woman in a white suit, with her hair tied back and in her forties came in. All the pregnant women knew her and one shouted in surprise:
-Sara! Gold Nursery Nurse!
Sara smiled and nodded, walking over to Rain in a respectful manner.
-Madam, Mr. Nilson asked me to come and take care of Miss Estela, where is Miss Estela?
Ma’am?
Not only the curious, Leila was shocked, even Lluvia herself was speechless with astonishment as a small nurse hurried to bring the cot closer.
-Estela is here.
Sara smiled and nodded, reaching out to take the cot.
-Madam, Mr. Nilson has prepared a room upstairs for me for your lunch hour and for me to look after Miss Estela, so you can work quietly and come up when you are free. I’ll show you other business at lunchtime.
With that said, Sara pushed the stroller.
The room was silent for a long while, then everyone looked at Leila with a sneer….
-Mr. Nilson himself has admitted that Dr. Rain is a ‘Lady’….
-That’s right, and calling Sara to take the baby, the baby must be Mr. Nilson’s, what’s wrong with this woman if she’s not sick in the head?
-Who knows? You have delusions of grandeur, don’t you?
Leila’s face reddened, her eyes reddened, she turned and ran away, she had to go to her brother and ask him what they were hiding from him….
Rain waved her hand feigning calm.
-Let’s all disperse, those who don’t matter to leave and we’ll continue with the clinic.
However, it wasn’t over yet, the two journalists that Leila had brought with her had already broadcast live everything that had just happened, and the internet was filled with voices, some against Leila, others against Lluvia, and others doubting Estela’s origins….
Only all this, unbeknownst to Lluvia, who threw herself into her work?
At twelve o’clock sharp, after finishing her midday work, Lluvia went to the canteen with her fellow nurses and stood in the bustling queue, thinking about preparing one for Sara, when suddenly a familiar voice sounded around her:
-Hello everyone, this is Nilson.
The noise from the hospital dining room was instantly muted and everyone looked around for the sound to find it coming from the dining room stereo, with a suited Nilson sitting behind a desk at an LCD TV hanging on the wall.
Nilson was looking at the camera and Lluvia’s gaze was lost in the screen, feeling him watching her through the screen, through space….
He loosened the tie around his neck and his face became a few shades more serious.
-Today I watched the live broadcast of Rain from the First Hospital of Echave City, because I was hurt by public opinion and I’m sorry.
I take this opportunity to make it clear to the public, and to those who care about us, that Lluvia did not seduce me, that she has no character problems, and that she is a qualified and good doctor and mother.
There was a commotion in the room, but Lluvia didn’t hear it, she was looking intently at Nilson on the screen, her heart beating faster and faster….
-I was the one who ran after her and stayed at her house, begging and cajoling her to come home with me.
Estela is my child and I hope people don’t put all kinds of labels on her, I will do my best to protect my mother and my daughter and whoever is vilifying them, I will do the right thing, thank you all.