Dulcina Calvo hit him with her little fist: “Esteban Zaragosa! Let go of me! If you don’t let go! I’m going to scream!”
The girl stared at him with round, dark eyes and a fierce gaze.
Esteban Zaragosa, however, didn’t want to let it go: “If you scream, even if you scream at the top of your lungs now, I’m afraid no one will hear you around here. My car, it’s very well soundproofed.”
“…”
Dulcina Calvo’s white face flushed with anger.
“Let go of me!”
Esteban Zaragosa’s large hands closed around her slender waist and his dark eyes gazed at her with a sullen look, “Who are you meeting in this formal dress?”
“Is it any of your business? Don’t forget you’re a married man.”
“I will divorce Claudio Belles”.
“But you’re not divorced now! You’re not?”
Dulcina Calvo wanted to cry out of frustration, when it was his fault, but why, then, did he manage to keep coming back to screw up her life so quietly?
She had managed to alleviate some of her sadness over her breakup with him, but now why was he appearing before her again?
Tears, which fall with indignation.
Esteban Zaragosa was slightly stunned, his fingers gently brushed her delicate face, “I will divorce Claudio Belles as soon as possible, don’t cry.”
Dulcina Calvo bit her lip and opened her hand wide, glaring at him indignantly, “When you and your wife get divorced is none of my business!”
“Why did you quit your job at the hospital?”
“It has nothing to do with you!”
Dulcina Calvo’s cell phone rang and she picked it up.
The other party was none other than Guido Escobar, Tia Eugenio’s nephew.
“You’re Dulcina, aren’t you, you’re here already? I looked around the restaurant and couldn’t find you.”
Dulcina Calvo took a deep breath, raised her hand to wipe the tears from her face and said, “Please wait for me a little longer, I’ll be there soon.”
Esteban Zaragosa frowned when he heard a man’s voice on the other end of the line.
When Dulcina Calvo hung up the phone, Esteban Zaragosa asked in a cold voice: “Who?”.
“Does it have anything to do with Mr. Esteban? We broke up!”
Esteban Zaragosa’s best patience was exhausted, his large hand pressed against the back of her neck and he lowered his head against her forehead, “Dulcina, don’t challenge my patience.”
She choked out, “I don’t want to challenge your patience, you’re the one who keeps challenging my limits! I’m not going to be a third party.”
“Who said anything about making you a third party?”
Esteban Zaragosa’s voice softened a little, but Dulcina Calvo wanted nothing more to do with him and confessed, “Mr. Esteban, I have things to do, please open the car and put me down!”
“What’s up? I’ll give you a ride.”
“A blind date, are you going to send me there?” Dulcina Calvo had a cold hand on her voice and an unusually cold expression on her small face.
Esteban Zaragosa’s dark eyes raised a thousand ripples, “You go on a blind date dressed like that?”
“No?”
“No.”
Esteban Zaragosa’s kiss, tinged with anger, fell on her lips.
Dulcina Calvo opened her mouth and bit him hard, with a taste of blood rising in her mouth, but Esteban Zaragosa seemed to have no intention of letting go, going so far as to unbutton the rolls of her dress.
Dulcina Calvo was terrified and her voice was trembling: “No… let me go…”
The man’s voice was extremely low and soft: “Dulcina, why not, eh?”.
“You have a wife … you let go of me … um.”
What’s the difference between them being like that now and cheating?
“Claudio Belles and I have never been married, only as incumbents.”
Dulcina Calvo choked back tears, her watery eyes glistened with surprise but she continued to resist, “That has nothing to do with me either, that’s between you as a couple, I’m going on a blind date! Mr. Esteban, please stop bothering me, I really don’t want to be a third party!”.
If he kept bothering her like this, Dulcina Calvo wasn’t sure she had the strength to push him away.
She feared that if he took another step forward, she would step back.
…
In the end, Dulcina Calvo stumbled out of the car, like a frightened rabbit, running away.
Esteban Zaragosa sat in the car, his dark eyes narrowed as he watched the small figure running farther and farther away.
Drive and follow her.
…
Golden Waterfront Restaurant, next to the window.
Dulcina Calvo took care to fix her appearance in the mirror of her powder room before entering.
Her lip, which had been bitten by Esteban Zaragosa, was barely covered by the lipstick that had been applied to cover the blood.
Upon entering the restaurant, Guido Escobar caught a glimpse of Dulcina Calvo.
“Dulcina, over here!”
Dulcina Calvo looked for the sound and approached, apologetically saying, “Mr. Guido, I’m sorry, there was traffic.”
“Okay, sit down.”
Dulcina Calvo nods and sits down, her emotions stirred and somewhat misplaced.
The bartender approached and asked, “What would you like to drink?”.
Guido Escobar took the menu and asked Dulcina Calvo: “What would you like to drink?”
Dulcina had just picked up her menu to see what she wanted to drink when the waitress introduced herself saying, “Today we have fruit tea with lemonade, buy one get one free.”
Guido Escobar immediately said, “Two fruit teas with lemonade then!”
Dulcina: …
But Dulcina doesn’t mind these little details, fruit tea with lemonade is fruit tea, and she’s not picky.
Guido Escobar was the first to open the conversation: “We haven’t seen each other for years either, you’ve made yourself beautiful!”
“Thank you.”
“What do you do now, in the city?”
Dulcina Calvo nodded her head and said with sincerity, “I used to practice at the Holy City Hospital, but now I have quit and gone back to work as a doctor at the community hospital in town. ”
“Girls, it’s better to be close to home. If we get together in the future, we’ll buy a marriage house in the city, I’ll work inside the city, and you, you’ll take care of our little home, and you’ll work in the city and take care of our parents in the meantime.”
Dulcina Calvo froze, she did not expect Guido Escobar to think so much, she smiled awkwardly and said: “We’ll talk about that later”.
“It’s a quick thing, we establish a relationship and then we can meet the parents. By the way, do you usually do housework at home?”
“I don’t.”
Guido Escobar frowned, clearly a bit disgusted, “A girl still has to be able to do housework, otherwise she could easily make a mess of the house when they get married.”
Dulcina Calvo wondered, “But in my house, my father does all the work and my mother plays from time to time.”
“What kind of man does the housework, it’s always the woman who does the housework, how can you let your husband do the housework when he’s been out earning money all day and he’s tired?”
Dulcina Calvo’s brow furrowed and her resistance to this Guido Escobar intensified: “But girls also have to work, they also work all day, why do girls have to do housework?”
She would have understood if they had shared the burden, but Guido Escobar was really direct when he said that women should do the housework.
When she was with Esteban Zaragosa, a macho man like Esteban Zaragosa still bought her breakfast and never asked her to help him clean the house.
At the thought, Dulcina Calvo felt another dull ache in her heart.
I broke up with him, why do I miss him again?
Dulcina Calvo absentmindedly looks at the time on her phone, thinking that instead of spending time with Guido Escobar talking about nonsense, she should go see a movie.
Just as he was about to make this suggestion, Guido Escobar took the floor and asked, “By the way, have you ever been in love?”.