Estrella Berrocal stood still, her voice a little stiff as she said, “Miss Julieta, I’m not interested in what happened with Analena Lozada, I’m leaving now if there’s nothing else.”
Juliet Sarinana also smiled calmly and lightly, “Miss Star, next time you are free, let’s meet for afternoon tea.”
Estrella Berrocal curved her lips, “I’m not as free as Miss Juliet and I’m afraid I don’t have time for Miss Juliet’s afternoon tea.”
With those words, she hurried out of the café with her bag, perhaps in such a hurry that the contents of the large bucket bag she had opened fell out.
-It was a pregnancy test.
Estrella Berrocal bends down to pick it up, but Julieta Sarinana is one step faster.
Julieta Sarinana was a doctor, and she couldn’t stop reading the most basic and simple pregnancy test.
“Are you pregnant?”
Estrella Berrocal snatched the pregnancy test and frowned, “Miss Julieta, you are overreaching, this is a personal matter of mine.”
Julieta Sarinana looked at Estrella Berrocal’s back as she hurried away, her fingertips pinching the palm of her hand.
Adán had gotten Estrella Berrocal pregnant.
Was he really in love with Estrella Berrocal?
No. In this world, only she was worthy of being at Adán Rouco’s side; how could any other woman who did not understand him at all be worthy of giving him a child?
…
Estrella Berrocal’s head was a mess as she climbed into the cab.
Juliet Sarinana’s words echoed in his ears over and over again as if by magic.
“Miss Estrella, you and Analena Lozada, you really do look a bit alike.”
“Adam is probably looking for Analena Lozada in Miss Estrella. If he becomes infatuated with Miss Estrella and acts like he really likes her, maybe it’s just embarrassment at work, he’s just trying to pass for Miss Estrella, he’s just trying to return all the guilt he feels toward Analena Lozada to Miss Estrella. That kind of feeling, once the patient feels that he doesn’t owe anything to the original, that double, I’m afraid, he’s not going to like it anymore.”
Did Adán Rouco … really see her as a replacement for Analena Lozada?
He remembered those nights at Isla de la Playa when Adán Rouco had lain down next to him and shouted Analena Lozada’s name.
She squeezed the pregnancy test in her hand and tears, broken, dripped onto the form.
The cab driver looked at her in the rearview mirror and asked, “Where are you going, girl?”.
Where to?
She didn’t want to go back to The Villas at Repulse Bay yet, and at this hour, Adam Rouco shouldn’t be off work either.
“To the region of Azul”.
Back at La Villa Berrocal, Estrella Berrocal put the pregnancy test report in a drawer.
She unconsciously stroked her belly. When they told her at the hospital that the baby existed, her first thought was that she couldn’t have it, but at the time she felt especially reluctant.
Should he keep the child or not?
She had wanted to avenge her father’s death, but had become involved, and now she was pregnant by Adán Rouco.
…
Rouco Group building, president’s office.
It was closing time when Santino Yepes knocked on the door, “Boss, are we still picking up Miss Star from Yahua Film and Television Company today?”.
Adán Rouco looked at the “ficha” on his desk, picked it up and threw it in the wastebasket.
Santino Yepes froze: “Boss, why did you put…?”
“This is not the chip developed by the Rouco Group.”
Santino Yepes blurted out, “It’s not like another company has placed a commercial spy in the Rouco Group, is it? I’m going to investigate the surveillance of the building right now”.
With that, Santino Yepes turned to investigate, but Adán Rouco stopped him, saying coldly, “No, it’s not a real chip either.”
Santino Yepes did not understand for a moment, “Boss, this…”
Could it be that the BOSS knew that someone would come to steal it and that is why he had deliberately put an imposter chip in it?
Santino Yepes suddenly realized: “Boss, did you deliberately put the chip in such a conspicuous place, so that the other party can steal it? That way, if they succeed, they can rest easy.”
The man’s eyes were so cold that there was no trace of warmth in them. “They’ll soon find out that what they’ve stolen is just a fake chip.”
“But the entire Rouco Group building is heavily guarded, and although the president’s office is not, the hallways are. I will send someone to investigate this mole immediately.”
“He is not a mole.” denied Adán Rouco.
Santino Yepes frowned: “What BOSS means is …”.
“That’s the end of the matter, no more questions.”
With those words, Adán Rouco stood up and left the office, followed by Santino Yepes, bewildered.
After a long while, a bold suspicion suddenly flashed through Santino Yepes’ mind and his face twitched.
There were only two people who could enter Adán Rouco’s office with such freedom and ease, who would have the audacity to steal the chip, and who Adán Rouco would not want to investigate.
One was Olivia Montes, the eldest daughter-in-law of La Villa Rouco, and the other … was Estrella Berrocal.
The BOSS had just said it wasn’t an inside job, so that meant it hadn’t been Olivia Montes, so the person who stole the chip … was …. Miss Estrella?!
But Adán Rouco, who was in front, with a stoic face, made a phone call, still to Estrella Berrocal.
“I’m coming from work, to pick her up.”
Estrella Berrocal on the other side, her voice muffled, “I am not feeling well this afternoon, I have taken the afternoon off and gone home, I am no longer in Yawar, I am in La Villa Berrocal”.
Adán Rouco frowned and asked, “Are you not feeling well? What’s wrong?”
Estrella Berrocal, on hearing the low, attentive voice of the man on the other end of the line, burst into tears, but she did not dare to do so, she simply covered her mouth with her hand and remained silent for a long time.
Until the low, magnetic, male voice on the other end of the line called out to her, “Star?”
She sniffled and said, pretending to be relaxed, “I went to the hospital this afternoon, the doctor said I’ve been very tired lately and I have a stomach flu, okay.”
“Is it really just gastroenteritis?”
Could it be, not a pregnancy?
Estrella Berrocal was stunned by the question, then shook her head, “Well, rest and eat lightly and you’ll be fine, don’t worry.”
“I’ll pick you up at La Villa Berrocal.”
“Okay.”
After hanging up the phone, she grabbed the phone with one hand and couldn’t help but stroke her lower back with the other, her vision blurring as she mumbled, “Adam, I’m pregnant…”
…
Around here, after Adán Rouco got into the car, Santino Yepes drove the car and left the subway parking lot.
Adán Rouco sat in the back seat and ordered in a cold voice, “Go find out which hospital Estrella went to this afternoon for tests.”
“Yes, boss.”
The black Maybach had just pulled out of the subway parking garage when a figure suddenly burst in.
The Maybach braked hard.
Adán Rouco’s dark eyes glanced sharply at the windshield, only to see Irene Guillén running on her heels and banging on the window, shouting from the side of the car, “President Rouco, I have something to tell you!”
Santino Yepes frowned, “Boss, is it go or …?”.
“Since you’ve been waiting so long for me, you’d better listen to what you want to tell me.”
The windows slowly rolled down and Irene Guillén immediately said, “President Rouco, Estrella Berrocal and Jonathan Tasis are in cahoots to steal your company’s latest smart chip! I have heard their conversation with my own ears.”
Santino Yepes was taken aback and looked cautiously at Adán Rouco’s expression in the rearview mirror, but the man didn’t seem surprised, just raised his eyebrows slightly and looked out of the car at Irene Guillén: “Miss Irene took the trouble to wait here to tell me about this?”
Irene Guillén was stunned: “You don’t believe me? Adán Rouco, if you don’t believe me, the Rouco Group has a lot to lose!”.
Adam Rouco’s body radiated hostility, the window was slowly raised and only two cold words came from the man’s thin lips, “Drive!”
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