“Dulcina, I realize now that I can’t get over you, and since you can’t get over me either, shall we get back together?”
Dulcina Calvo, listening to Lázaro Morejón’s shameless request, felt more and more like laughing. Who was he, who was he to say that he wanted to break up and get back together?
Dulcina Calvo pulled the door shut and said with a cold little face, “I stopped liking you a long time ago and I don’t want to go back to you, so you should live your life with Miss Hermina!”
She was about to close the door when Lázaro Morejón’s body blocked her. “Dulcina, believe me, I’m only with Hermina Najarro because of my career, when my career improves I can be with you in all its splendor, will you wait for me?”.
“How can you be with Hermina Najarro for your career, even if you come back to me, then you will be with another woman.”
Dulcina Calvo’s heart is not only silent at this moment before such a rarity.
Lázaro Morejón grabbed her little hand and emotionally confessed his feelings, “I really mean it for you!”
“Let go of me! Lazaro Morejon! I don’t want to go back with you! I’m going to scream if you keep doing that!”
“I hear you’re with that Dr. Esteban whatever, is he as good as me?”
Dulcina Calvo sincerely believes that this Lázaro Morejón is incorrigible: “My business is none of your concern!”
“How far along have you been? Have you slept together?”
“…”
Dulcina Calvo blushed, I don’t know if from anger or embarrassment, “Lazaro Morejon, get out of here!”.
Men have some conquest in their hearts and some unspoken bad taste in their mouths, especially when provoked.
“When you’re with me, you don’t let them touch you, you say something about saving it for marriage, what, have you opened up to other men? I’ve been talking to you for so long and you haven’t given me a single sweet taste, I’m still thinking about it Dulcina!”
“Lazaro Morejon you have managed to disgust me!”
“Gross? Is this gross?”
Lázaro Morejón suddenly pulled her into his arms and tried to force her, Dulcina Calvo struggled hard but Lázaro Morejón did not let go as if he were crazy.
“Lazaro Morejon! Bastard!”
…
Esteban Zaragosa asked Estrella Berrocal for Dulcina’s current address. The old neighborhood was a bit out of the way and it took him a while to find his way, but as soon as he entered the building he heard cries for help upstairs.
It’s Dulcina’s voice!
Esteban Zaragosa rushes up, pulls Lázaro Morejón, who is entangled with Dulcina Calvo, and punches Lázaro Morejón hard in the face!
“Shit! Who?”
Lazaro Morejon was stunned by the punch, spitting bloody saliva and swearing.
Esteban Zaragosa took off his jacket and threw it straight to the floor, rolling up his sleeves, and two words came from his thin lips in a cold and stern voice: “Looking for death”.
Lazaro Morejon is pinned down and hit in the head!
Dulcina Calvo, fearful of trouble, rushed to stop him: “Stop! Esteban Zaragosa, you stop”.
It wasn’t until a small, gentle hand grabbed his arm that Esteban Zaragosa stopped moving, his dark eyes staring coldly at the beaten Lazaro Morejon, warning him with a single word: “If you bother Dulcina again, I’ll kill you outright!”
Esteban Zaragosa picked up the jacket from the floor, dusted it off and, carrying it in one hand and with one arm around Dulcina Calvo’s shoulders, entered the house, slamming the door shut.
…
Once inside, Esteban Zaragosa dropped the jacket he was holding in his hand and hugged the little girl next to him, his eyes fixed on her little face with concern: “Did that bastard do something to you? Are you hurt?”
Dulcina Calvo shakes her head.
Esteban Zaragosa felt uncomfortable and said with a frown, “I’m still worried about you living here alone.”
This is an older neighborhood with inadequate security facilities. When she walked in just now, there wasn’t even a doorman at the entrance, and the neighborhood is a small downtown with a lot of casual people coming and going, so if she was a girl, she could easily get into trouble if she was really a target.
Dulcina Calvo pursed her small lips wordlessly and, after a long while, whispered, “Today was just an accident … and you just happened to run into him.”
“What if I don’t run into him next time?”
“…”
Esteban Zaragosa’s brow furrowed as he saw that she wasn’t taking her seriously and he reached out to take the girl’s hand, “Honey. ”
Dulcina Calvo unconsciously withdrew her hand, but the man’s grip was so firm that she couldn’t break it, so she rambled, “By the way, how, how did you get out of the hospital?”
Didn’t the doctor say he was bleeding a little from his stomach?
How come you are already out of the hospital?
Esteban Zaragosa’s dark eyes bored into hers, “I was more eager to come see you than I was in the hospital.”
He went to the second hospital for treatment and only to see her. He was a doctor himself and knew her stomach problems well.
Dulcina Calvo wrinkled her white forehead at his words, “How can you be so capricious? Who will be responsible if something goes wrong?”
“You say I’m capricious, and you, you know it’s not safe to live here and you don’t listen to me?”.
“… I live here where it’s not safe.”
Esteban Zaragosa reached out and clasped her hand in his arms again, tightly, the softness of her body in his arms so reassuring to hold that a heart settled.
Dulcina Calvo was too urbane to push him away, so she let him hug her and, after an unknown amount of time, Esteban Zaragosa pressed against her slender shoulders and spoke, “I’m hungry.”
Dulcina Calvo said unconsciously: “Go and sit down then, what do you want to eat? You have a weak stomach, it’s better to keep eating liquids, I’ll make porridge”.
Esteban Zaragosa nodded and went to sit on the sofa.
Dulcina Calvo sighed as she worked in the kitchen. It was so lame, how she leaned in and didn’t want to blow.
Let’s say it’s because he’s sick and we pity him.
Dulcina Calvo washed the rice, put it and the water in the rice cooker and pressed the porridge button before entering the living room, where she found Esteban Zaragosa already lying on the small sofa, asleep.
She cautiously approached him and knelt by the couch, looking at his gaunt, handsome face with a little pain in her heart.
Why did you suddenly have a stomach hemorrhage when you were fine?
Small hands, which could not help but explore her face.
He seems to have lost some weight recently, probably due to an upset stomach.
Fingertips, stroking her forehead and eyes, the bridge of her nose, all the way to her lips as the man’s large hand suddenly reached up and firmly grasped her small hand.
At the same time, the man’s closed dark eyes slowly opened….
Dulcina Calvo blushed a little.
Damn, it was embarrassing to wake him up by touching him.
“That, me, I’ve cooked the porridge, but it will take more than an hour to cook, so you’ll have to wait.”
“Honey, are you, right now, worried about me?”
The man’s dark eyes bore into her, and she didn’t know where to place her eyes.
Dulcina Calvo was speechless, thought for a while and began to wriggle out of it, “I just saw that you were bleeding from your stomach and that you are still being treated at our hospital, and besides, it is only fair that I take care of my patients as a doctor…”
The man raised an eyebrow and looked at her playfully, “Is it right to take a patient home and cook porridge for him with your own hands?”
“… I didn’t bring you home, you came uninvited, well…”
He kissed again.
Dulcina Calvo covered her mouth and looked at him with a red face, “Esteban Zaragosa, why are you kissing me again?”.
“You make my soup with your own hands and I’ll pay you back part of the profits, is there a problem?”