Santino Yepes drove the car while looking carefully in the rearview mirror at Adán Rouco, the man’s face was dark and taciturn, obviously in a somber mood.
“Boss, could there be some misunderstanding in this …? Miss Star shouldn’t have done something like that…”
At the end of the sentence, Adán Rouco’s eyes became so cold that they released ice and Santino Yepes meekly closed his mouth.
After arriving at La Villa Berrocal in the black Maybach, Adán Rouco entered the villa and saw no trace of Estrella Berrocal downstairs, and when he climbed with his long legs to the second floor, he saw Estrella Berrocal lying on her back on the big bed with her face full of tears.
Had he cried?
Adán Rouco wrinkled his brow a little, and unconsciously went over to her and sat down beside her, raising his hand to wipe the tears from her small, white face, when he saw her rosy lips murmur a couple of times.
Her voice was so small that Adam Rouco didn’t hear her for a moment, and when he looked down and came closer, he heard her stifle a dreamy sob, “Daddy … he’s sorry …. Daddy … sorry …”
Adam Rouco’s dark eyes twitched.
Sorry? Did you feel sorry for your father by staying with him?
Adán Rouco asked Santino Yepes to investigate the case of La Empresa Berrocal, back in the day, when the real estate boom was underway and the Rouco Group, as developer, was developing a lot of real estate in the Ciudad del Norte. One of the buildings was contracted to La Empresa Berrocal, and the contract negotiated between Adán Rouco and La Empresa Berrocal required the building to be finished in two months, which was not too much to ask, and if things were going well, two months was more than enough.
Moreover, in keeping with Adán Rouco’s aggressiveness, two months for a building would have been extraordinarily generous.
La Empresa Berrocal had many internal deficits at the time, and Stefano Berrocal probably took on the project to try to keep La Empresa Berrocal afloat, but due to heavy snowfall, the project could not be completed on time, and Stefano Berrocal’s men embezzled and fled, leaving La Empresa Berrocal in the lurch. The Rouco Group law firm demanded payment from La Empresa Berrocal for the delay, which was a considerable sum.
Adán Rouco, in his high position, had never paid much attention to the affairs of these small construction companies, including La Empresa Berrocal when it went under.
After all, La Empresa Berrocal was just an ant of the Rouco Group, and Adán Rouco was too busy to deal with the life and death of a small construction company.
It was some time ago when Adán Rouco asked Santino Yepes to investigate, and he discovered that Stefano Berrocal had gone to the Rouco Group to see him, but he had not seen him, and not long after La Empresa Berrocal went bankrupt, Stefano Berrocal had committed suicide by jumping off a building. Santino Yepes said that Stefano Berrocal had no choice but to commit suicide because he had too many creditors and his debts were so high that all the banks in the north of the city would not lend to him.
But for Adán Rouco, business was business, and he did not know Estrella Berrocal at the time.
But Stefano Berrocal’s death, after all, had to do with the Rouco Group, with him.
But Adán Rouco would never have let Estrella Berrocal refuse to be with him, or even leave him, for that matter.
Adam Rouco’s eyes were deep as he gazed at the sleeping face of the little woman, reaching up to smooth her long, messy brown hair on the pillow, who seemed to have slept uneasily, and awoke with misty eyes at his touch.
“Wake up?”
Estrella Berrocal opened her eyes and saw Adán Rouco sitting on the edge of the bed, and her slender body unconsciously leaned back, clearly on the defensive.
Adam Rouco’s hand, slightly stiff in the air, and Adam Rouco’s pride and dominance did not allow her to resist him, and his large hand ran down her body and kissed her hard against the headboard of the bed.
“What are you hiding from, hmm?”
Estrella Berrocal’s face was so red from the kiss that it was hard to breathe.
“Adam …”
Only when she heard his soft, sticky call to herself and his hands on her shoulders did Adam Rouco release her, his thin lips still resting gently on hers, and ask in a muffled voice, “Why are you crying?”
Estrella Berrocal was stunned and raised her hand to touch her face, only to discover that it was wet, probably because she had just dreamed about her father …
I hadn’t just said anything in my sleep to make Adán Rouco suspicious, had I?
“It’s nothing, just an upset stomach, a little uncomfortable.”
She leaned back in Adán Rouco’s arms, her little face pressed against his warm chest, not daring to look him in the eyes.
Adán Rouco kissed her forehead and reached down to her stomach with his long, slender hand, “Still feeling sick?”
Estrella Berrocal’s eyelashes fluttered as his hand inadvertently slid over her flat belly.
Her small, white hand covered the back of his and she stirred without moving, pressing it against the small of his back and tilting her pretty face to look at him.
-Adam, here is our baby.
Her watery eyes looked at him like that suddenly, and Adán Rouco pulled her to sit on his lap, his dark eyes looking deep into her, his voice impassive: “You look at me with such affection, do you want something to happen?”.
Estrella Berrocal’s face suddenly flushed.
How could this man, so correct and abstinent, say something so inappropriate?
His voice was low, slightly smoky and magnetic, and when he spoke against her ear, his hot breath tickled her ear and her face burned red from the small of it to the nape of her neck.
Adam Rouco’s large hands, gently rubbing his stomach, looked at his flushed face and said, “For the sake of your illness, I will let you off today and make it up to you another day”.
“…”
These kinds of things, they’re not work, and you have to compensate for them?
Adán Rouco picked up her slender waist and carried her across the room, “Home now.”
The man’s simple words touched the softest spot in Estrella Berrocal’s heart.
House …
She couldn’t help but feel a slight blush in her eyes.
Adam Rouco might soon find out that she had stolen the Rouco Group’s smart chip and given it to Jonathan Tasis with her own hands, and when she learned that he had been cheating and betraying her all along, would he still be so nice to her then …?
She wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned her face against his neck, “Adam, will you stop being so nice to me?”
“Hmm?”
“I’m afraid I won’t be able to leave you.”
She was afraid that she couldn’t leave him, and that he would be nice to her simply because he saw her as a shadow of Analena Lozada, and even more afraid that he would know she had been lying to him …
Tear drops slipped from her eyes and rolled down the back of Adán Rouco’s neck.
Adán Rouco frowned slightly, but said nothing.
…
At night, after Estrella Berrocal fell asleep in his arms, Adán Rouco’s cell phone rang.
The caller ID read: Santino Yepes.
Adán Rouco gently tugged on his arm, got up and got out of bed, holding the phone in his hand before picking it up in his study.
“Chief, Miss Estrella was at First City Hospital this afternoon for a gynecological checkup.”
Adam Rouco’s dark eyes narrowed: “What’s wrong?”.
Santino Yepes hesitated and stammered: “It is not a disease…. Miss Estrella is pregnant and the diagnosis is three weeks”.
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