For many days in a row, Dulcina Calvo did not contact Esteban Zaragosa, who went to work and left work the same way.
Mother Dulcina continues to care for her in La Ciudad Santa, presumably because she has seen that she has been settled for a long time and no longer interacts with Esteban Zaragosa, so she has become much less vigilant of late.
This day, after work, she left the hospital and went to take the subway line 3 to go home. There were a lot of people at rush hour after work, and today she was wearing heels because there was an event at the hospital, but it turned out that the event didn’t happen, which made her wear heels all day, and now she had to wear heels to squeeze on the subway, which gave her a headache just thinking about it.
…
“Check Dulcina’s current location”.
Esteban Zaragosa sat in the car, looking out the door of the second hospital as he drove back and forth, and gave instructions to Tom Paul, who was sitting in the passenger seat.
Tom Paul was speechless as he opened his handheld device to quickly check his location and spat in foreign-accented Chinese, “What a delusion! You’ve abandoned Claudio for Dulcina Calvo and you’re getting drunk for this woman. I’d like to see what magic Dulcina Calvo has to make you dizzy.”
Tom Paul is in the same organization as Esteban Zaragosa and is also Esteban Zaragosa’s treating physician. Esteban Zaragosa is the most uncooperative patient Tom Paul has ever seen and the one who gives doctors the most headaches.
But who made them brothers? Because of the girl Esteban Zaragosa likes, Tom Paul becomes more and more curious about the kind of girl Esteban Zaragosa might be attracted to.
“I didn’t ask you to follow me here to listen to your nonsense.”
Tom Paul gave him a blank stare and said without smiling, “Got it, it’s at this station, the second hospital on subway line 3, this subway is three minutes away…”
Before Tom Paul could finish his sentence, Esteban Zaragosa opened the door and stepped out of the car, heading for the subway entrance.
“Hey… is this guy taking the subway instead of a nice car?”
Is this the sour smell that emanates from a relationship?
…
Dulcina Calvo waited for a while with her legs and feet uncomfortable, occasionally lifting her legs to kick them, unaccustomed to wearing heels.
A cool breeze blows from the front and the subway arrives.
Dulcina Calvo’s face fell as soon as she saw the crowd in the subway.
When she got on the subway, Dulcina Calvo was pushed inside, unsteady on her heels and slouching, and when the subway started running again, Dulcina Calvo was even more slumped by her inertia, but she was close to a warm chest.
Startled, she rushed to try to get up and apologize to the other woman, but her large hands were already firmly clasped in his, holding her steady.
Dulcina Calvo startled and looked up to see Esteban Zaragosa’s handsome, clean face.
Was I hallucinating? How could Esteban Zaragosa be here…?
It wasn’t until the man reached up and curled his long fingers around her forehead and gave her a chestnut that Dulcina Calvo ate the pain, “Mmm … that hurts.”
“Does it look silly?”
“How did you get to…?”
Besides, how did he know she was here?
Esteban Zaragosa’s large hands took her by the waist and pulled her into his arms, his large hands firmly encircled her waist, his dark eyes looked deep into her.
Esteban Zaragosa did not answer her question, but merely looked at her small, white, collagen-filled face and asked in a deep voice, “Have you missed me these days?”
At the mention of it, Dulcina Calvo bit her small mouth and reached out to nudge him, dropping her teary eyes and saying with some glee, “No, I’ve been eating well and sleeping well lately, and I don’t miss you at all.”
He wouldn’t even answer her calls, so how could she have the courage to ask him if she missed him these days?
But once these words were said, and when the man did not speak again for a long while, Dulcina Calvo felt bad again and the question she wanted to ask came up, “Why didn’t you answer when I called you on the phone?”
Is it because you are too busy, or simply because you don’t want to take it?
“I have recently returned to Rome and my divorce from Claudio Belles is completely finalized.”
Dulcina Calvo was slightly stunned, so … was she going to do the divorce again?
But with a divorce, wouldn’t there be time to take their calls?
What Dulcina Calvo does not know is that Esteban Zaragosa has recently been in Rome, after undergoing two chemotherapy treatments, and it is not easy for him to appear before her in such a “decent” and apparently healthy state.
These days, Esteban Zaragosa dares not answer his calls, fearing that if he does he will find out something and simply turns off his phone.
Esteban Zaragosa looked at her with a warm gaze, the emotion in her was strong, “Whether you love me or not, these days, I miss you.”
When the man said this, his voice was gravelly and magnetic, and for no apparent reason, Dulcina Calvo’s nose turned sour and her eyes reddened as she remembered what it was like to be abandoned and indifferent these days.
“But you miss me, why not a phone call, not a single text message.”
Esteban Zaragosa looked at her with deep, downcast eyes, “Honey, did you forget that you crossed out my cell phone and WhatsApp number?”
“No … Then I couldn’t resist secretly taking your cell phone number off the blacklist, I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to reach me …”
Lips softly kissed, Dulcina Calvo tried to push him away, shocked, but his lips quickly pulled away.
“This, this is inside the subway…”
Dulcina Calvo covered her mouth with her small hand in panic and looked around with teary eyes as if she had been a thief, luckily no one seemed to pay attention to them because there were too many people inside the subway.
“Can you tell me now, honey, whether you love me or not?”
“… Do you care that much whether I love you or not? My mother recently set me up on another blind date.”
“How did it turn out?”
Dulcina Calvo was stunned, she didn’t expect Esteban Zaragosa to ask her, and she played along, deliberately saying, “It’s okay, he’s a returnee, he’s also a doctor, we’re compatible, and I’m going to keep seeing him.”
“What about me, hmm?”
The man dropped his handsome face and leaned closer to her small face, the man’s hot breath, splashing her small face, Dulcina Calvo’s face was hot, her eyes restless, straying slightly, not daring to look at him, stammering, “You … as for you, it depends on your performance! ”
“You’re putting your foot in two boats, it’s not right for you to behave like that.”
“So, what, you were the one who locked me out first, why should I stand still and wait for you?” reasoned Dulcina Calvo.
“I’ve waited so long for you, it’s not too much to ask you to wait so little, is it?”
Dulcina Calvo did not understand what Esteban Zaragosa said and was about to ask him when he had waited for her when the subway arrived at the next station and the people inside squeezed Dulcina Calvo. Zaragosa’s leather shoes.
“Honey, you’re stepping on my foot.”
Dulcina Calvo was startled and hurried away, “Excuse me…”
Esteban Zaragosa looked at the high heels on her feet and frowned slightly, “Since when do you like to wear heels?”.
“I don’t like wearing heels. The hospital staff had an event today, but it was canceled on short notice, which caused me to wear heels all day, and my heels are worn out.”
In addition, the heels do not fit and are half a size too big.
As she was speaking, Dulcina Calvo’s heel on her right foot was stepped on by someone coming down from the subway, as the crowd was so crowded that they removed her shoe a moment later.
“Oops, I dropped my shoe…”
Dulcina Calvo was barefoot and golden, anxious to find her heels.
Esteban Zaragosa hugged her, bent his head and whispered in her ear: “Take off your other shoe too and step on my foot”.
“…”