But if he really treated her badly, she felt wronged as hell.
Adán Rouco pulled her into his arms and growled coldly, “What you say and what you think don’t match!”
“…”
Estrella Berrocal leaned into his arms, but did not want to struggle, longing for the warmth of his body, longing for the heat of the moment.
Remembering what Felipa had said in the morning, she brought her hand carefully to his right shoulder and looked up to ask worriedly, “Is your right arm still hurting?”
Adam Rouco’s left hand grasped her slender wrist and his dark eyes bore into hers, “You’re worried about me now?”
She blushed slightly, “I heard from Felipa that I pushed you all night last night and your old injury came back…”
“And you know this?”
“…” Estrella Berrocal bit her lip and sniffled, “I didn’t ask you to hug me.”
Adam Rouco growled softly: A puppy that has been in your care for a long time has more love than you.
The man suddenly lifted his long fingers to unbutton his shirt and Estrella Berrocal froze, unconsciously covering her eyes with her hands. “What is he doing! This is the car…!”
I didn’t really want to … that, did you? But it was daylight and it was next to the main road!
Adam Rouco took off his black shirt and pulled a bottle of ointment from the drawer of the car, his thin lips curved as he pulled his hand away from hers and slid the ointment into her hand. “I don’t mind if you want to have sex with me in the car, but you have to medicate me first.”
It took Estrella Berrocal a moment to realize that she was undressing so she could rub the ointment on him.
She scalded her little face and picked up the ointment and was about to check the old wound on her right shoulder when her waist was caught by Adam Rouco’s left hand and lifted into his lap.
She sat on his lap and the two of them sat in an intimate position.
“You put me down…”
Estrella Berrocal struggled a couple of times, but Adán Rouco did not let go, staring at her with a burning gaze. “That way it’s easier to apply the medicine.”
She didn’t insist, she just let him hold her like that, looked carefully at the wound on her right shoulder and noticed that it was a little swollen, frowned and said, “It’s a little swollen.”
The man stared at her, his tone icy, “And it wasn’t because of someone who pressed her last night?”
Estrella Berrocal muttered under her breath: “I didn’t ask him to hold me …”.
“You kept saying you were cold, so I had to hug you in case you got cold and your fever spiked again.”
Adán Rouco’s low, magnetic voice spoke so clearly that Estrella Berrocal bit her small mouth, tears inexplicably spilling over her shoulder.
She stifled a sob as she rubbed the ointment on him. “You could have tucked me in more or let me lean on your left shoulder…”
Adam Rouco’s handsome face appeared, his dark eyes looked deep into her, “I’m afraid if I move, you’ll spin around and have to make a scene again.”
His voice was so low and husky, it was mesmerizing to the core, and in those few words, the affection knew no bounds.
Estrella Berrocal threw her arms around his neck, bent her small, wet face and kissed his thin lips.
“Adán Rouco, I’m afraid to fall in love with you…”
“Afraid? Isn’t it time to fall in love?”
She let out a choked sob, “Soon…”
She would leave him before she really fell uncontrollably in love with him.
Estrella Berrocal reached out her small hand and gently massaged his swollen right shoulder.
Adam Rouco took her small, slender hand and brought it to his lips and kissed it, “Does your hand still hurt?”.
Was he referring to the hand that Lucrecia Javier had burned yesterday?
She shook her head, “No, is that the ointment you put on my hand last night?”.
Adán Rouco emitted a faint “hmm,” hugged her and commanded, “Squeeze my shoulder again.”
“Yes.”
Estrella Berrocal continued to massage his shoulders, neither too gently nor too hard, and Adán Rouco felt a little more comfortable, his dark eyes looking at the marks she had left on his collarbone and chest, her long fingers gently caressing them.
The two had been in the car for an unknown amount of time when Estrella Berrocal’s cell phone rang.
It was a call from the design department.
“Estrella Berrocal, where have you been? I’ve been looking for you everywhere and I can’t find you.
“Ah, I got it, I’ll be right back.”
After hanging up the phone, Estrella Berrocal squashed her mouth, “The director said there was a meeting, I have to go back…”
Adam Rouco buttoned her meticulously, his dark eyes heavy, “Star, take care of your mind and body for me, otherwise I don’t know what I’m going to do that will get out of hand.”
He said it with such seriousness, even a little hostility, despite the obvious words of love, that Estrella Berrocal sat on his lap, kissed his thin lips and caressed his little mouth, deliberately teasing him. “If people knew my boyfriend was so fierce, they probably wouldn’t dare mess with me.”
Adán Rouco wrinkled his brow and grabbed her wrist: “Estrella, I’m not joking”.
“I get it, I’m not that open, I … I’ve only ever had you, trust me, okay?”.
And, I don’t know if it’s because women have such a complex with their first man, but after accepting Adán Rouco, the idea of doing that kind of thing with other men if she broke up with Adán Rouco in the future suddenly made her a little unacceptable to herself.
Had he unconsciously become part of Adán Rouco?
She didn’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing, but when she did it with Adán Rouco, she had to admit that she fell in love, that she wanted to satisfy him, that she wanted him to be happy.
Adán Rouco replied faintly and Estrella Berrocal got off his lap: “I’m leaving then”.
…
During the following time, the wind was calm.
Adán Rouco’s defenses against it seemed to be loosening again.
Estrella Berrocal had a two-by-two schedule, going to work and returning to The Villas at Repulse Bay.
Half a month has passed and one morning Estrella Berrocal goes upstairs to ask Adán Rouco to come down for breakfast, only to hear him talking on the phone to someone else in his room.
“Well, the patent for this smart chip hasn’t been applied for yet, but it’s coming soon, so until then, put security in place.”
Estrella Berrocal, who was standing in front of the door, was slightly stunned.
Once the patent for this chip came out, it would mean that even if she stole it, it would be useless and she would get into trouble.
It would be another thing if he stole the chip before the Rouco Group patented it and let a rival company apply for it first.
Did he really want to steal the chip?
The Rouco Group would lose a lot of money and Adán Rouco … would hate it.
He turned and walked down the stairs in silence.
Adán Rouco, in the room, hung up the phone and turned to look at the door.
When Adán Rouco came downstairs, he only saw Estrella Berrocal sitting at the table a little distracted.
“Why aren’t you eating?”.
“I don’t have a good appetite lately, I don’t know what’s wrong with it, maybe it’s my intestines.”
He looked at the eggs on his plate and thought he smelled the fishy odor, a sudden dryness in his throat, and he covered his mouth and ran to the bathroom.
But he squatted by the toilet and nothing came out.
Adán Rouco followed her, looked at the small woman squatting by the toilet and asked suddenly, “Have you had your period this month?”
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