After a night of great emotions and ups and downs, Estrella Berrocal could not sleep in the familiar warmth of her arms.
Because of Adam Rouco, his gaze dared to fall into the darkness outside the window, where something might be drifting.
It was Adam Rouco, who had not had much rest for almost forty-eight hours and who had traveled all the way to Ciudad del Rey, who was now quite sleepy with the soft fragrance in his arms.
He put his arms around her, breathed in the light fragrance of her hair, kissed her temple and said softly and softly, “Go to sleep.”
Estrella Berrocal’s eyes widened and her little hands clasped Adán Rouco’s arms around her, her eyes rolling, “Adán, do you think there really are hungry ghosts here?”
Adam Rouco laughed softly with his eyes closed and pulled her tighter into his arms, unable to stop himself from kissing the bridge of her nose and lips again. “I don’t know if there are evil spirits, but I know there’s a hungry ghost around you right now.”
“…”
By the time Estrella Berrocal reacted, her little face was red as she raised her hand and punched him in the shoulder.
This man, how can he still be thinking about that kind of thing even now!
“Okay, no more problems, do as you are told and go to sleep.”
With a long arm, Adán Rouco also turned off the lamp and wrapped it in the warmth of the blanket.
Estrella Berrocal shrunk into his arms, looked at his handsome sleeping face and sighed, “Adam, I thought we were really parting like this, but thank goodness you came to Ciudad del Rey to find me.”
“No, don’t be ridiculous.”
Adam Rouco’s chin resting gently on the top of her head, Estrella Berrocal asks again, “If, indeed, we were related, would you still come to me?”
“I didn’t know I was an oopsie until I came to you.”
“Ah, yes, so that means that even though we are cousins, you still come to me.”
Adán Rouco made a “hmm” and ran his large hand over the back of his neck.
Estrella Berrocal was especially troubled tonight, her little face pressed against the back of his neck, her eyelashes so long they tickled his neck and the lump in his throat, and he couldn’t help but frown, but he didn’t want to push her away any further.
“Adam, you said that if Mrs. Vasconcellos does not find the right person to donate blood stem cells to her …”
At the mention of it, Adam Rouco’s dark eyes immediately widened, and he looked alertly and seriously at the little woman in his arms, interrupting her directly and saying, “I forbid you, I don’t care what you’re thinking, I forbid you to keep thinking about it.”
Adam Rouco’s large hands cupped her small face, his dark eyes fixed on her solemnly.
“Why are you so nervous, it’s not like I said I was going to donate blood stem cells to Mrs. Vasconcellos, if I wasn’t pregnant I would have given them to her, but now that I have our baby, the baby is the first person I think about and I’m not going to take any chances with the baby.”
Besides, although Mrs. Vasconcellos had not deliberately abandoned her then, by mistake, all these years had passed and she was older, with a good marriage and a beloved partner of her own, and no longer needed any motherly love, and as good as Mrs. Vasconcellos was, Estrella Berrocal was not very fond of her at the moment.
Mrs. Vasconcellos really had to give up more in her heart than her and Adam’s children.
“Donating blood stem cells is a big deal, even if you are not pregnant, you can’t make decisions without permission. In the future, when you encounter this kind of thing, you should discuss it with me, and this time you left home without permission and still haven’t done a checkup.”
Estrella Berrocal was embarrassed: “You’re going to do a review? You’re not going to write another review, are you?”.
Adán Rouco hit him over the head: “Writing a critique is a light sentence, think well how to admit your mistakes”.
Estrella Berrocal blinked in pain, bit her lips, and said, “Can you spare me for the sake of my pregnancy?”
“If you’re pregnant and don’t discipline her, won’t she be even more anarchic in the future? Running with the ball in your belly, I see you can do it.”
“…”
Estrella Berrocal’s mouth twitched and she muttered, “I didn’t, and what’s that tone, it’s okay for me to run away from home, but it’s not okay for me to take your child? Now that the baby is not yet born, you value him more, so when he is born, will I be the least important in your heart?”
Adán Rouco squinted at her: “Estrella Berrocal”.
“Hmm?”
“Why are you so jealous?”
“That … is not because I love you so much.”
Adán Rouco’s dark eyes went blank at this answer, as if he had not expected her to respond so naturally and unambiguously, and had thought she would simply blur the question …
His dark eyes burned as he looked at her, his eyes full of affection and warmth, “No matter how many children I have in the future, the one I love the most will always be you.”
“Really?” She was like a child, her eyes were clear and sparkled with countless little stars.
Adán Rouco nods with a slight smile: “Children are an accessory of love, they can only be with us for a part of our life and sooner or later they will leave their parents, but a couple is eternal.”
“Would Paulita be upset if she heard Daddy say that?”
“Later, when Paulita grows up, the man who spoils her will come.”
When the time comes, he fears that his daughter will be so eager to get married that she won’t even care about him as a father.
“It’s hard to imagine what our Paulita’s future boyfriends will be like when she grows up, and I must be very sad when she gets married.”
Adán Rouco hit him over the head: “If you didn’t know better, you’d think you were seventy or eighty years old and you worry so much, go to sleep”.
“It’s not like I haven’t seen you for a long time and I wanted to find something to talk to you about…”
“We’ll talk tomorrow, you’ll have to be considerate, your man hasn’t had much sleep in almost two days.”
“All right then. Good night.”
After he fell asleep, Estrella Berrocal looked at the greenish-brown circles under his eyes and became a little distressed. “Adam, have you not slept well for a long time?”.
Adán Rouco grabbed his little hand: “I’ve been losing sleep the whole time you’ve been away from home. I’ve been grumpy lately and you’d better not do anything foolish to upset me again.”
“Well, I won’t, and I won’t bother you again for a long, long time.”
Adán Rouco was amused: “A long, long time? How long is your long, long time?”
One month? Two months?
“Then I am sure that in the future I will continue to do more or less unpleasant things for you, even things that will annoy you, and it is not good for your health to be angry, and you had better get used to the stupid things I do.”
“…”
Adán Rouco pinched her face: “Estrella Berrocal”.
“Hmm?”
“From whom did you learn this sophist theory?”
Estrella Berrocal complained, “Be gentle, you’re making my face big, other husbands are touching their heads and princess hugs, you’re pinching their faces, I’m turning into a bun face.”
“Touch the head to kill it without fear of going bald?”
“…”
How can such a sweet image that touches the head come out of his mouth and turn into a bald image …