Adán Rouco was sitting in the back seat of the Maybach when the car braked abruptly and his whole body rushed forward.
Santino Yepes was quick to apologize, “Sorry, boss, are you okay? The roads are a bit tricky today, did you get hit?”.
Blood rushed to Adam Rouco’s head, and there was a sudden flash of white light before his eyes.
The sensation was subtle, what had been a small white dot, became violently magnified and was no longer as black as before.
“Santino Yepes, drive to the hospital!”
Santino Yepes froze and asked worriedly as he started the car, “Jefe, are you hurt?”.
“No, I seem to be able to see vaguely with my eyes.”
…
Hospital, within the doctor’s office.
After seeing the CT scan, the doctor asked Adán Rouco: “Mr. Adán, do you see me clearly now?”.
“Yes.”
During the ride, his vision had become sharper and sharper, and the barrier that had been covering his eyes like black cloth was rapidly fading, the white light becoming more and more blinding and magnified, until now he could see absolutely everything, as well as a normal person.
“It is true that there was a small blood clot pressing on the optic nerve, but according to the CT scan now, that small clot has completely disappeared. Mr. Adam, congratulations, you have recovered your sight.
…
As he left the doctor’s office, Adán Rouco looked straight ahead, a little dazed, but inside he was excited.
Santino Yepes smiled and said: “Boss, that’s great news, you should call your wife and tell her, she will be very happy”.
A warm smile came into Adán Rouco’s eyes: “Go home and tell him in person. Come on, let’s go back.
“Yes!”
…
After Estrella Berrocal and her driver picked up Paulita, they waited half a day, Olivia Montes had gone home and Adán Rouco had not returned.
Paulita was nibbling on some potato chips, her mouth and hands greasy from eating them, “Estrella, why isn’t daddy back yet, I’m so hungry, I want dinner?”.
“Eat some bread first, don’t eat the fries, they’re not good for your tummy on an empty stomach. I’ll call dad to ask him, maybe there’s too much traffic.”
Paulita wrinkled her little nose and nodded: “Yes, go away!
Estrella Berrocal was about to call out when the sound of an engine was heard in the courtyard and the black Maybach entered the villa.
Estrella Berrocal hung up the phone and went out into the courtyard to look for Adán Rouco.
He had been in the habit of doing so since Adán Rouco had lost his sight.
When Estrella Berrocal took Adán Rouco’s arm, she looked at his pretty face as usual and asked him, “Why are you back so late today? Nothing happened on the way, did it?”.
Santino Yepes said sidelong: “No, the road was fine”.
“Santino go home now, it’s late.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
Estrella Berrocal’s eyes returned to Adán Rouco’s face and she saw the slight smile on his lips and curved her lips involuntarily, “You seem to be in a good mood today.”
“You’ve come to pick me up, so naturally I’m happy.”
The curve of a certain man’s mouth deepened.
Estrella Berrocal felt strange: “Come on! Since you lost your sight, when have I not gone out to look for you? I haven’t seen you so happy either”.
Adán Rouco remained silent, saying nothing, leaving her to guess.
Estrella Berrocal, increasingly distorted, approached him and asked with wide eyes, “Is it because the new secretary is pretty?”
“No, it’s not like you can see it.”
“…”
Adán Rouco simply took her small hand in his: “Come on, let’s go home for dinner”.
Estrella Berrocal did not notice that Adán Rouco walked with more ease than usual and did not need to grope at all.
…
After dinner, Adán Rouco still had no intention of breaking the news to Estrella Berrocal.
He was fine with enjoying her care for two more days.
These days, even when he bathed, she would go into the bathroom and attend to him, because she was afraid he couldn’t see and would fall in the bath, so she would rub his back or whatever service he wanted.
Adán Rouco was used to it.
Estrella Berrocal is also used to it, especially when she finishes bathing and walks naked in front of him, without any modesty, before drying off and putting on her clothes without any hurry.
Tonight, as always.
Estrella Berrocal finished showering and walked back in front of him without a single garment.
Despite being pregnant, she had put on a few pounds and gained some flesh, but it did not affect her slenderness at all, but added a touch of femininity to a mature little woman.
Her skin was white, her limbs were well proportioned and slender, and she was more than three months pregnant, with no clothes covering her, her belly was slightly bulging, but not obvious.
She is bending down to dry her hair and greets Adán Rouco: “Adán, my pajamas are on your right, throw them to me”.
Adán Rouco immediately grabbed the cotton pajamas and, with long legs, came up behind her, his dark eyes burning, tending to smolder in them.
Estrella Berrocal did not notice when, suddenly, a pair of long arms crossed her from behind, startling her.
Adán Rouco raised an eyebrow: “Fighting my blindness and wandering in front of me with no clothes on?”
“…”
Estrella Berrocal blushed completely, not even daring to turn around, snatching her pajamas from his hand and hastily putting them on.
“Who gave you permission to fondle!”
“My own wife, and I can’t touch her?”.
What nonsense.
Estrella Berrocal put on her pajamas in disarray, to be led to bed by the man behind her.
“Why are you hugging me?”
“Thinking about your body in my head and kind of holding back.”
“…”
Estrella Berrocal’s mouth twitched and she pulled her large hand away, “I can’t. By the way, I’m going to take a pregnancy test in the next few days, will you come with me?”
“With You.
The man’s thin lips exhaled a word with force and Estrella Berrocal smiled sweetly, “That’s very kind, husband.”
It’s no big deal for a pregnant woman to go alone, but when you walk into a place full of couples, it’s hard not to get excited.
Adam Rouco’s large hand went to her lower back and gently caressed her, “This baby is going to torture me for another six months.”
“Hmm? Torture you? The one who is going to be tortured is me.”
He was not the one who was going to have the baby.
“I can’t touch you if you’re pregnant.”
“…”
Estrella Berrocal clenched her fist and punched Adán Rouco hard in the chest.
“You’re the one who got me pregnant and you’re the one who’s going to back out!”.
Adán Rouco laughed: “Next time we won’t have a baby, two children are enough”.
“I don’t even want to have a baby, I have too much work, if it wasn’t for this baby, I’d probably be a famous jewelry designer by now.”
The man kept smiling, “Isn’t it enough to be Mrs. Rouco to make a name for yourself?”.
“That’s thanks to you, people will say that she is Adán Rouco’s wife, not that you are Estrella Berrocal’s husband.”
“Wife, you are very ambitious.”
Estrella Berrocal gave him an oblique look: “You have to support me, not contradict me, do you want to see me at home being so young?”
“Nibbling at me is not nibbling at old people.”
Estrella Berrocal rolled her eyes, not noticing Adán Rouco’s penetrating gaze on her.
“Mrs. Rouco, what are you thinking?”
Estrella Berrocal looked at the ceiling and said, “Today I saw in my circle of friends that I have a friend from college who works as a designer in Paris and has taken so many pictures of the pieces she makes, they are so beautiful, I have a similar career to hers, but now she is a fashion jewelry designer in Paris. My tutor at the time said I had a lot of talent for art and design.”
She looked down, rubbed her belly and sighed, “Hey … one pregnancy and talent probably hangs in the balance.”
Adán Rouco patiently reassured her, “It also takes intelligence and physical strength to be someone’s wife, it’s no easier than being a top jewelry designer.”
Estrella Berrocal’s eyes averted and shot him a look, “How comforting you are, I’m actually a pregnant woman with nothing to do right now.”