Mother Dulcina was already fainting with rage and Papa Dulcina tried to stop her, but Mother Dulcina had already pounced on Dulcina Calvo and asked her earnestly, “Is it true what Miss Claudio said? ”
“Mom, it’s not like that…”
“That’s right! You tell me, you tell me what the hell is going on here – how did you end up with your best friend’s husband?”
Dulcina Calvo opened her mouth but realized, what was she going to explain, she couldn’t explain anything, “I …. Mom, I’m sorry.”
As she fell, Mother Dulcina threw a hard slap in Dulcina Calvo’s face.
“Dulcina Calvo! Where have you been listening to all the lessons I’ve been giving you since you were a little girl! How can you … be a third person?”
Mother Dulcina covered her chest in anger and looked at her daughter with indignation.
Dulcina Calvo’s white face was marked with a clear red slap mark, and she felt nothing but burning pain, and a wrenching ache in her heart that burned like fire.
Papa Dulcina said in anguish, “There’s no point in hitting the child, it’s over, you …”
“Shut up, you! If you hadn’t spoiled her, she’d be in this state!”
Claudio Belles looked amused at his family drama and spoke without hesitation, “Aunt, you mustn’t be angry, I have forgiven Dulcina for this, as long as Dulcina doesn’t get involved with my husband again.”
Mother Dulcina naturally felt indebted to someone else: “Don’t worry, Miss Claudio, if Dulcina Calvo tries to bother her husband again, tell me and I’ll break her legs.”
They, the Calvo family, cannot afford to be ashamed of this!
Claudio Belles won this game so beautifully that, on his way out, he took one look at a gray-haired Dulcina Calvo and felt a surprising sympathy for her.
It’s pathetic, but who told her that Dulcina Calvo was stealing men from her Claudio Belles!
…
The Calvo family, a sepulchral silence.
Mother Dulcina trembled with rage, covered her forehead and said, “Dulcina Calvo, how could you do such a treacherous thing! You have no shame.
Dulcina Calvo goes numb, tears just flow soundlessly …
Papa Dulcina tried to speak on his daughter’s behalf, but was rebuffed by Mother Dulcina.
Mother Dulcina, seeing that she said nothing and gave no explanation, grew angrier and angrier as she watched, and striding into the kitchen, she picked up a broom and held it back, and hit Dulcina Calvo as hard as she could!
Papa Dulcina pulled Mother Dulcina back, but the broomstick, however, landed hard on Dulcina Calvo.
“Cut it out! What’s the use of beating a child!”
“Dulcina you have to go!”
Mother Dulcina fumes: “Stop clinging to me! Let me go! If I don’t teach her a lesson today, she won’t know what shame is. She doesn’t know how to behave! How could I have given birth to such scum!”
With that, several more blows fell on Dulcina Calvo’s back.
Papa Dulcina couldn’t take it, so when he couldn’t stop Mother Dulcina, he grabbed Dulcina Calvo, who was standing still, and pushed his daughter!
“Move!”
Papa Dulcina pushes Dulcina Calvo toward the door and hurries to close it.
Dulcina Calvo was standing in front of the door, listening to the discussion inside, and her whole heart was churning, the pain in her body not a hundredth part of what she felt in her heart.
He ran out of the building in tears.
…
When Esteban Zaragosa arrived in Ciudad de Ronda, he kept calling Dulcina Calvo, but the phone kept ringing.
Esteban Zaragosa was anxiously looking forward to going home.
Papa Dulcina and Mother Dulcina’s previous good feelings for him had completely vanished.
Mother Dulcina was the first to question, “If you have a family, why are you picking on our Dulcina?”
“Aunt, it’s hard for me to explain to you at once the good and the bad of this affair, but Dulcina is innocent, I didn’t know he was married.”
Mother Dulcina heard this and pain pierced her, “So, it was you who lied to our Dulcina?”.
“Yeah, sorry, that was bad thinking.”
Mother Dulcina wiped the tears from her eyes, took a deep breath and asked coolly, “What are you going to do now? Why do you keep coming to our house to see Dulcina when your wife was here this morning?”
“I will divorce as soon as possible.”
Papa Dulcina and Mother Dulcina froze, as if they had heard a joke.
“Divorce? Divorce your wife for an affair? You think we’ll let you keep Dulcina?”
For the time being, Esteban Zaragosa is an extremely irresponsible bastard in the eyes of Papa DulcinaMother Dulcina!
“Uncle, aunt, I’m sorry I can’t explain much to you right now, I have to go see Dulcina now and I’m afraid something might happen to her.”
…
Finally, Papa Dulcina and Mother Dulcina also went out to look for Dulcina Calvo.
Esteban Zaragosa did not know the City of Ronda, but a search on the map revealed a lake not far away and, fearing that the girl did not want to jump into it, he drove on and immediately headed for the lake.
Once at the lake, Dulcina Calvo was definitely in sight.
She sat by the lake, hugging herself, shoulders hunched with tears, like a wounded beast licking its wounds in secret.
In Esteban Zaragosa’s heart, it was as if a large hand was gripping him tightly, choking with pain.
“Dulcina!”
He took a big step and wrapped his arms around Dulcina Calvo from behind, who pushed him hard with both hands and choked, “Get away from me! Please, … stop bothering me …. I’m really not sure I can keep up my morale…”
Now, because of Esteban Zaragosa, not even mom and dad are looking out for her, so how can she be so bad.
“It’s dangerous for you to be here alone, come back with me.”
“Back? Where to?”
Esteban Zaragosa took a deep breath, the lump in his throat slipped, his dark eyes locked on hers, and he said, “If you want to come with me, of course I’d be delighted.”
But he knew there was no way Dulcina Calvo would want to go with him now.
“I’ll take you home first if you don’t want to.”
It’s really not safe for her to be alone, here at night.
“Dulcina! Dulcina!”
“Dulcina Calvo!”
Not far away, a familiar shout and the glow of a torch could be heard.
It was Papa DulcinaMadre Dulcina who sought him out.
Dulcina Calvo wiped her tears hard and said to Esteban Zaragosa, “Go away! My parents must not want to see you.”
Esteban Zaragosa wanted to be with her, but could not stay with her at that moment. “Tonight you will sleep well and in the morning I will go talk to your parents.”
As he was leaving, Esteban Zaragosa could not resist raising his hand and gently touching his battered cheek.
Dulcina Calvo eventually looked away and stopped paying attention to him.
Finally, Papa Dulcina and Mother Dulcina brought Dulcina Calvo back home.
Mother Dulcina has finally stopped hitting and scolding Dulcina Calvo, but her silence has made Dulcina Calvo feel even worse.
In the middle of the night, huddled under the covers, I don’t know if it was the pain of the wound in my back or the aggressiveness of my heart, but I couldn’t help but scream.
Tonight, neither Papa Dulcina nor Mother Dulcina slept.
Mother Dulcina leaned back on her bed, looked up at the ceiling and asked with a sigh, “Old friend, did I hit too hard today?”
“What are you saying, you keep saying you can’t hit a child in the face, but what about today, you not only hit Dulcina, you hit her in the face.”
“I hate it too, I’m very angry, I really didn’t think that our daughter, would be a third party in someone else’s marriage.”
“Didn’t Dulcina also know that the man was married? Dulcina was also a victim, she was also deceived.”