Early the next morning, Adán Rouco returned to the Vasconcellos family with Estrella Berrocal.
Andreo Fanta and Ciri Garzón having breakfast at Villa La familia Vasconcellos.
Adán Rouco and Andreo Fanta do not know each other. The men, especially those of their distinction, admire each other in most cases, and now there is a layer of kinship, so naturally there is no overnight enmity.
Andreo Fanta took the floor: “Have you had breakfast yet? Do you want to sit down and have a drink?”.
Estrella Berrocal shook her head and smiled, “Adam and I took a walk through the small suburbs of Ciudad del Rey on the way here and settled in at the bistro for breakfast and a bunch of Ciudad del Rey specialties.”
When Andreo Fanta had almost finished eating, Adán Rouco took the floor: “If President Andreo is free, we could talk”.
“Sure, go talk to my studio.”
Adán Rouco looked down and said to Estrella Berrocal: “Wait for me here and don’t walk away”.
Estrella Berrocal nodded meekly, “Well, I’ll talk to Ciri. ”
When Adán Rouco went upstairs with Andreo Fanta, Ciri Garzón came up to his shoulder and asked, “Is he your husband?”
Estrella Berrocal blushed a little, “Hmm.”
“No wonder you can’t get over him so much, being so handsome and treating you so well, when he came to The Vasconcellos Family yesterday to see you, he was on fire, with a look like he wanted to swallow Andreo Fanta. ”
“Why?”
“Because her husband thought Andreo Fanta was his rival in love, and he had taken the liberty of keeping his wife private, so of course he was furious.”
Estrella Berrocal’s heart moves at the tip.
A man as calm and collected as Adán Rouco usually is, it is rare to see him lose his temper. “It’s a pity I don’t see him anxious about me, he’s usually very cold.”
“It’s not that simple, there are surveillance cameras all around the outside of this courtyard, Andreo Fanta and your husband met yesterday in the semi-unknown café club in the backyard, there is surveillance there too, I’ll pull it out and show it to you.”
“Really?”
“By all means, go.”
…
Inside the studio, Andreo Fanta stands with Adán Rouco next to the floor-to-ceiling window, contemplating the distant view.
“Estrella is pregnant and cannot donate blood stem cells to Mrs. Vasconcellos, something I hope President Andreo understands.”
Andreo Fanta let out a soft laugh, “What if I don’t get it?”.
Adam Rouco raised his cold eyes and said in a calm voice: “President Andreo cannot understand that it is President Andreo’s business, Estrella is my wife, a native of The Rouco family, and she donates blood stem cells to others, first with my consent. ”
Andreo Fanta narrowed his eyes and pondered a question, “If Dulcinia wasn’t pregnant by now, would you have allowed her to donate?”
“Sincerely, I don’t want to.” Adán Rouco turned his eyes to look at him and said in a firm tone.
Andreo Fanta merely curved his lips, unsurprised, “But donating blood stem cells doesn’t do much harm to the donor, and saving one life is better than saving seven, this Mrs. Vasconcellos you speak of, is also Dulcinia’s real mother.”
“From a scientific point of view, donating blood stem cells doesn’t really do much harm to the donor, but I don’t want to put Estrella at risk, especially when it comes to her health, and I never look at things scientifically or rationally when it comes to Estrella Berrocal, I want her to live with me until she is eighty, ninety or even a hundred years old, so I don’t want her to be weak and unhealthy. As for building seven pagodas, I’m not interested.”
Adán Rouco once said that he was so selfish that if the world ever ended, he would not save it, he would simply take Estrella Berrocal and flee to the safest place to hide.
He didn’t care if the others lived or died, as long as Estrella Berrocal was alive and well, that was enough.
Andreo Fanta stared into his dark eyes for a long moment before speaking, “That my sister met you was probably the luckiest thing she’s had since she was taken away.”
…
In the surveillance room, Estrella Berrocal touches her feverish face after watching the video of Adán Rouco confronting Andreo Fanta yesterday.
How she had never felt before that Adán Rouco cared so much about her.
Especially the moment she saw the video in which Adán Rouco pulled out his marriage certificate directly, Estrella Berrocal felt her heart was about to burst with heat.
Ciri Garzon asks, “Since your divorce was a misunderstanding and he is pursuing King City, when do you plan to return to The Holy City with him?”
“I don’t know, she wouldn’t have stayed long in King City if she had a lot to do at the company, and I’ve been away from The Holy City too long, I haven’t seen my daughter for years.”
“A daughter? You already have a daughter with Adán Rouco?”
At the thought of Paulita, Estrella Berrocal bursts with maternal love and opens her phone gallery: “Yes, look, that’s my daughter with Adam. ”
“He’s so cute and cuddly.”
“Her name is Paulita, she is three years old, she is able to make my heart melt when she talks to me, I want to say yes to everything she wants, when are you and my brother going to have one too?”.
Estrella Berrocal looked at the photo and burst out laughing, realizing as soon as she finished that she seemed to have asked the wrong question.
Ciri Garzón’s smile dimmed a lot, but she pretended not to mind and said, “I just like it better when I see a munchkin, but I’d rather not have a real baby…! I’m afraid of dying because my body will deform and if I’m unlucky, I’ll bleed to death, so I’d rather not.”
Were you born with Andreo Fanta? You’d better… forget it.
Estrella Berrocal, knowing that was Ciri Garzón’s excuse, didn’t poke her and played along. “And yes, having a baby, whether it’s a normal delivery or a C-section, is quite painful.”
Ciri Garzón looked at Paulita’s picture and said, “I don’t care, I’m going to be Paulita’s godmother!”.
“Yes, but for all intents and purposes, Andreo Fanta is Paulita’s real uncle…”
“I’m not married to Andreo Fanta, but he’s Paulita’s uncle, so who am I to Paulita’s aunt?”
Estrella Berrocal, knowing that Ciri Garzón was angry, smiled and said, “Yes, when you go to La Ciudad Santa to play, I will let Paulita meet you as a godmother.”
Ciri Garzón’s eyes fell on the photo again: “Paulita is very busty and also very cute, more adorable than those kids on TV. ”
Estrella Berrocal joked, “Who told me I had good genes with Adam. ”
…
In the studio, when the two men finished speaking, Adán Rouco suddenly stopped his steps as he reached the studio door and turned his head: “I am grateful that Estrella Berrocal was taken from me at birth by malicious people, even if the road was difficult, but those people finally gave me such a good girl. It was unfortunate for you and Mrs. Vasconcellos. For that, I thank you all. I will help Mrs. Vasconcellos find the right bone marrow.”
Andreo Fanta watched Adam Rouco’s back as he walked away, the corners of his lips twisted: “Deuces.”
Do married men like to show their happiness in front of single men?
…
Adán Rouco went downstairs and looked for voices to find Estrella Berrocal and Ciri Garzón.
As soon as Estrella Berrocal saw Adán Rouco, she remembered how eagerly he had looked for her yesterday, and with a thrill in her heart she ran to him and threw her arms around his waist.
“Adam I will never leave you again.”
Adán Rouco was astonished, not very used to making out with Estrella Berrocal in the presence of outsiders.
He whispered a playful reminder in her ear, “Mrs. Rouco, you can talk to me about love somewhere else if you want, I’ll let you have your say, but for now, aren’t you forgetting that there’s someone else here?”
And, it’s a great light bulb.
Ciri Garzón said sourly: “Doesn’t it hurt your conscience when you show your love in front of single dogs like me?”.
Andreo Fanta also approached, put his arm around Ciri Garzón’s shoulders and said, “How can you be a single dog if you have me?”.
“…”