Estrella Berrocal was weak, had acid reflux all the time and could not sleep well.
Andreo Fanta asked as he knocked on the door, “Are you still having a hard time?”
Estrella Berrocal nodded, “Still a little bit, but it should be fine after a good night’s sleep, don’t worry.”
“Are you sure you don’t want a doctor to come?”
Andreo Fanta said as he put his hand to his forehead; fortunately, the temperature was normal.
“It’s fine, I just don’t have a lot of strength.”
“It turns out that tomorrow morning you’re going to the hospital for a checkup, so get some rest.”
After Andreo Fanta left, Estrella Berrocal couldn’t sleep, so she opened her cell phone to do a little friends check, and when she clicked on WhatsApp, a red “1” appeared in the contacts section. WhatsApp number to add her.
Yes … Adán Rouco.
Estrella Berrocal was paralyzed for a long time and did not agree, and finally, fearing she could not resist, she simply deleted the request.
What the hell does he mean, why did he add her to WhatsApp if he is divorced?
In his mind, Adán Rouco was a bold man who would not regret a decision he had made, and his hesitation now made him think he was wavering.
It was he who asked for the divorce, it was he who abandoned her first, and now he comes to add her to the list of those who seek peace?
Estrella Berrocal’s mind, completely disturbed, was in an even lesser state to fall asleep.
After tossing and turning for more than an hour, Adán Rouco added it once more.
Estrella Berrocal had the courage, out of the blue, to flatly refuse his request.
…
Adam Rouco’s handsome face sank dark and melancholy as he received the WhatsApp rejection message.
This woman, how dare she refuse him!
Adán Rouco gritted his teeth, after having lived for more than thirty years, he had never come up against such a wall!
He was always the one asking for her contact details, but this woman has crossed out his mobile number and even his WhatsApp number!
Now he has taken the initiative to add her twice and she has ignored it once and outright rejected it another time.
With patience, Adam Rouco was reassured to think that it was Jerold Rouco who had impersonated him and wanted to divorce her, without her knowledge, and that she was now rightly and justifiably angry with him.
But this woman, again leaving the house and pulling her … Adán Rouco’s head swells with rage and blood when he thinks about it.
He walked over to the bookshelf and reopened the copy of Up at the Villa, pulling out the small note inside and looking at it in amazement.
Unable to resist a cold snort, “Hmph, trying to get me to come to you and having the audacity to leave without saying goodbye.”
Thinking about it made Adán Rouco feel irritated, he closed the book with a snap, pressed his long fingers against his temples and sat back in his chair a little tired.
Remembering Estrella Berrocal before leaving La Ciudad Santa, when he took her to see the whales in the underwater world and told her the meaning of the whale’s fall, when he suddenly said those three words again, was he trying to express to her that for him she could also sacrifice herself as a whale?
Who asked you for the sacrifice, gave you permission?
Did she ever think about his feelings when she left without saying goodbye because she was afraid people would point them out as blood relatives?
But he was even angrier that he had not been by her side when she was so desperate and upset.
How the old man had convinced her to go to Florence, the process she did not know, but she thought she must have been very determined at that moment, she had thought of him and Paulita and the Rouco family, but she had thought of herself.
Adán Rouco does not like these sacrifices, especially when his own wife does such foolish things without his knowledge.
…
The next morning, Andreo Fanta took Estrella Berrocal to the hospital.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Estrella Berrocal went directly to have her blood drawn.
After the blood draw, Estrella Berrocal was a little dizzy and Andreo Fanta held her up, “Don’t you feel well?”.
Estrella Berrocal did not take it seriously: “I think it’s the morning fasting blood draw, I’ll sit down and rest for a while”.
“Cidro Borja, go get some breakfast and hot milk for the lady.”
“Yes, Mr. Andreo.”
Andreo Fanta helped Estrella Berrocal to sit on a chair to the side, Estrella Berrocal saw her look a bit nervous and thought she was too tense, “I must be hypoglycemic, it’s okay”.
“I see you don’t look very well. Later, when you’ve had breakfast, I’ll ask Cidro Borja to take you back first.”
“Good.”
This hospital has a stake in the MG Group, so in many respects Andreo Fanta enjoys privileges.
The match report came out quickly.
“How’s that, did I get Mrs. Vasconcellos right?”
Andreo Fanta nodded, “It fits, it shouldn’t be a big deal.”
“It’s fine.
Estrella Berrocal had just stood up when her eyes turned black and she fainted.
Fortunately, Andreo Fanta was quick to grab her: “Cidro Borja, get a doctor!
…
Andreo Fanta was outside the room talking to the doctor, the doctor did not know Andreo Fanta, majority shareholder, and rebuked him with a black face: “What is wrong with you, this lady is pregnant and you have brought her to have her blood taken for a blood stem cell matching, you do not want her to donate blood stem cells, do you? Pregnant women are very weak, if the pregnant woman had not fainted, if the pregnant woman really went to donate blood stem cells, do you know what the consequences would be?”
“You are the husband of a pregnant woman, right? How can you be her husband? If something happens to the pregnant woman and her child, can you take responsibility? What a joke with human lives.”
Andreo Fanta was scolded by the doctor, but said nothing. Andreo Fanta has always been above the world, when has he ever been scolded like that? We didn’t know about the situation, did we? If we had known that our lady was pregnant, we wouldn’t have brought her here for a blood stem cell test.”
The doctor looked at Andreo Fanta with contempt, “Heh, I think this is a real sister found, so inattentive, it’s good to be alive, if the pregnant woman really donated blood stem cells, one body and two lives are not impossible.”
The doctor blurted out the words and turned around to go straight back to her office.
Cidro Borja became agitated behind the doctor’s back: “I say, why is she so animated, don’t you know her, sir? How dare you speak to Mr. Andreo like that?
“Mr. Andreo, now that the lady is pregnant and cannot donate blood stem cells to the lady, what about this?”
Andreo Fanta clenched his fist and looked up at Estrella Berrocal in the room, the lump in his throat slipped and he pursed his thin lips, “I’ll think of another way.”
…
When Estrella Berrocal woke up, she was out of breath.
Andreo Fanta and Cidro Borja were by her side and Estrella Berrocal asked faintly, “What happened to me?”.
“You have fainted, don’t move yet, lie down and rest.”
Estrella Berrocal touched her forehead and murmured, “Why has he fainted well ….”
Andreo Fanta was silent for a few seconds and said, “The doctor says you are pregnant, four weeks.”
“… what?”
Estrella Berrocal looked at Andreo Fanta, her gaze erect and completely frozen.
How could she…? How could she… be pregnant?