At these words, Estrella Berrocal’s watery eyes stared at Adán Rouco, choking back a sob, her eyes as red as an abandoned puppy.
“It is clear … it is clear that you no longer love me … it is you who have said that you want a divorce … it is you who have said that you will have nothing with me … Adán Rouco… At last I see you… you are a businessman with a profit motive… … you’re a big liar! You don’t want me at all… Well…”
lips, blocked by his own.
Estrella Berrocal’s salty tears flowed into the other’s mouth.
Adán Rouco gently pressed his forehead against hers and said, “Don’t say those things again.”
Estrella Berrocal cried louder and sobbed, “But you … just … just don’t love me …. ”
How could one divorce her if one loves her, how could one not go to Florence to look for her if one loves her?
“I was going to pick you up after you left for Florence, but I was on my way to the airport and had an accident.”
Estrella Berrocal’s eyes fluttered and she immediately became concerned, “Are you okay then? Are you all right?”
Adam Rouco’s voice was a little hoarse as he caught her small hands groping his body, “Don’t touch him, aren’t you afraid that something will happen to you?”.
Estrella Berrocal was so dizzy from crying that she didn’t realize what he meant until she saw the game in his eyes and felt she had been tricked by him.
You bastard, it’s getting late and you still want to drive!
“Because of the accident, Jerold Rouco reappeared, impersonating me, and asked for a divorce from you.”
“So… So it wasn’t you who divorced me? It was that big pervert Jerold Rouco? Pervert?”
For a moment, Estrella Berrocal did not know whether to cry or laugh, and had the feeling that she had been taken for a ride.
Adán Rouco looked at her and nodded seriously in response.
Estrella Berrocal put her arms around Adán Rouco’s neck, but the tears flowed back down Adán Rouco’s neck.
“Adam I thought you didn’t really love me…. Do you know how much Jerold Rouco said? How he could impersonate you… I’m sorry… It’s my fault for not telling you… I was so angry that… ”
Adam Rouco pulled his small hand away and his dark eyes looked at her solemnly, “I’ve answered everything you wanted to know, isn’t it time for you to answer some questions?”
Estrella Berrocal was teary-eyed and somewhat bewildered, still reeling from her great sadness and joy, “Hmm?”
“I hear you’re pregnant?”
“…”
“I heard you were going to abort our baby to save another man’s mother?”
“… Adam, listen to me, I also just found out about my pregnancy, the truth is that I didn’t expect to be pregnant all of a sudden. Even though it came very suddenly, I definitely didn’t think about aborting it.”
Adán Rouco was slightly relieved to hear this statement.
“But … Andreo Fanta’s mom is my mom too.”
Adán Rouco’s brow furrowed: “What did you say?
At the mention of it, Estrella Berrocal’s face was still streaked with tears, but she smiled, “Adam, we are actually not related at all, nor am I my second uncle’s daughter. That said, I have Dad to thank for letting me go to Florence, if I hadn’t gone there I might not have met Andreo Fanta, and without meeting him, our relationship might have remained misunderstood.”
Adán Rouco wiped away the traces of tears with his fingertips and his dark eyes looked deeply into her, “What’s wrong?”
“It was always that I was not Uncle Er’s daughter, and as to why Uncle Er’s paternity report was wrong, I can’t understand it, by definition I wouldn’t be … but I really am the daughter of The Fanta Family, Andreo Fanta insisted on two paternity tests and both were established. So I am his real sister”.
Estrella Berrocal told Adán Rouco some more about her stay in Florence, and the latter, looking at her dark eyes and haggard little face, took her in his arms and laid her on the bed, saying in a deep voice: “Well, you can stop this stuff, I’m going to send someone to investigate.”
Estrella Berrocal leaned into his arms and took his big hand in her little one, “You sleep with me.”
“It’s been two days since I’ve had a bath, Mrs. Rouco. ”
From yesterday’s flight to King City to finding him now, he’s had a long, dusty trip and hasn’t even bothered to take a hot shower.
Estrella Berrocal, however, continued to cling to his neck and arched into his arms, “It’s okay, I don’t care.”
Adán Rouco smiled and took her little hand: “But I’m everywhere”.
“Well, then, can you wash faster?”
Adán Rouco looked at her playfully, “Are you still afraid of ghosts?”.
Estrella Berrocal’s watery eyes shifted from side to side and she said, somewhat embarrassed, “I thought I said … this was a mass grave.”
Adán Rouco raised his hand and tapped him on the forehead, with sly eyes: “Nonsense, nonsense”.
Estrella Berrocal raised her foot and tried to kick him: “Adán Rouco, you big liar, aren’t you afraid of scaring your children?
The man took her little feet and put them back under the sheets: “My little girl Adán Rouco, she is not scary”.
Estrella Berrocal looked at him twice.
As Adán Rouco headed for the bathroom, he seemed to remember something else, turned and pulled the diamond ring out of his pocket: “Give me your hand”.
He took her hand, put the diamond ring back on her ring finger and said very seriously, “Don’t ever give anything that important to anyone again.”
“But Andreo Fanta is no one else, he’s my real brother.”
“Not even for a real brother.”
When it comes to this true brother, Adán Rouco has a lot of fire in his belly.
This Andreo Fanta, sooner or later he will take his revenge.
Today, his heart felt like it was hanging off a cliff, and if he wasn’t careful, it would fall apart.
Andreo Fanta was the first person who dared to play a joke on his head, good for him, he will keep it in mind.
…
As soon as Adán Rouco came out of the bathroom after the shower, he was grabbed by the waist by Estrella Berrocal, who ran towards him.
“Why did it take you so long to wash?”
Adán Rouco raised an eyebrow and caught her in a cross-legged embrace: “Mrs. Rouco, you seem to have missed me.”
“So, do you miss me?” asked Estrella Berrocal with a little red face.
Once the man led her to the bed, Estrella Berrocal leaned into the crook of his arm and the two of them looked at each other face to face.
Adán Rouco said: “If I didn’t want to, I would come to see you in the middle of nowhere…”.
Estrella Berrocal tilted her little face up and kissed her thin lips, “How did you find your way here? Did Andreo Fanta tell you to come to this hellhole today to nurse my baby and it seemed so strange …. Did he know you were coming to King City to find me and that’s why he hid me?”
Adam Rouco frowned slightly and turned around, trapping her under him.
“Mrs. Rouco, it seems I haven’t tried hard enough and now you have time to think about other men…”
Estrella Berrocal was coy: “So, what do you want?”.
Adán Rouco leaned toward his ear and said two words in a magnetic voice: “Reparation for the body”.
Estrella Berrocal pushed her hands against his chest hurriedly, “Hey hey…. no no, I’m only four weeks pregnant, no…”
“I’ll let you off first, but when it’s safe, I won’t spare you.”
“…”
Adán Rouco lay down next to her and ran his large hand across her lower back.