Montrelle Herran’s heart sweetened like a thick drizzle of honey at the words of confession.
Claudius Belles leaned on Montrelle Herran’s shoulder and said: “But … Montrelle Herran, you rich people didn’t really grow up in the same environment as us common people. It’s like at noon, at your family’s table, you have to have soup before you eat, but in our family, we all eat first, then we have a few sips of soup, or we eat rice with soup, and … you also use a male fork every time you chop food, don’t you feel tired?”.
Montrelle Herran shook his head, “Get used to it.”
“And yes, you must get used to it, after all, it’s what you’re used to. But I seem to have a hard time changing.”
When he finished, Claudio Belles smiled, there was no pressure in his smile, but Montrelle Herran said, “You eat as you used to eat, and you will eat as you want to eat, just as you said, I don’t need to cater to your tastes, and you don’t need to cater to my habits, you are my wife, and I love all of you, including any of your habits, even if they are a defect, that is part of you that I love.”
“…”
Claudio Belles was stunned by these words of love.
Even if they were flaws, they were part of the woman he loved.
Claudius Belles took Montrelle Herran’s arm and rubbed against his shoulder, his fighting spirit rekindled, “Darling, for your sake and our future happiness, I will adapt to The Herran Family as soon as possible and impress the old man!”
Montrelle Herran had a loving smile in her eyes, “You will.”
He had his eye on someone so good that sooner or later the old man would like him.
…
In the evening, when it was time for dinner, many dishes were brought, some light, some normal, and a few on the spicy side.
When the old man looked at the dishes, he frowned slightly, “What’s wrong?”
Montrelle Herran responded directly, “I have ordered the cook to make them, you are the only one in the family with a light taste and the rest of us like them spicy. You are the only one in the family who likes spicy and the rest of us love it.”
Claudio Belles, fearing that Mrs. Herran would become angry, immediately pulled Montrelle Herran’s sleeve with his small hand under the table, indicating to her with his eyes to stop talking, as he could already see Mrs. Herran’s face, which was getting darker and darker.
The next moment, Sr. Herran said in a cold voice, “Now you are all disobeying me, aren’t you? I have no more say in this house?”
Rayman, who was acting as a peacemaker, said with a smile, “Sir, what are you talking about, after all, the little lord and lady are young and their tastes are normal.”
Mr. Herran grunted coldly, but said nothing, picked up his fork and began to eat.
He saw that it wasn’t Montrelle Herran who loved flavor, it was his wife who liked to eat flavored dishes.
He had married his wife and forgotten his father.
…
After a good dinner, Claudio Belles waved and went upstairs.
Angelo Herran followed him and asked, “Mom, are we still going back to The Holy City?”
Claudio Belles thought his son was homesick and reached out to touch his little head. “This is our home now, your father is already helping you with the admission process and you are going to study at La Capital Imperial.”
Angelo Herrán was not happy to hear that he would be studying at La Capital Imperial, “What? Why didn’t you tell me?”.
Claudio Belles was stunned by his son’s overreaction, “What’s wrong? I thought you knew that if you came to La Capital Imperial, you had to stay at La Capital Imperial to study”.
Angelo Herran sat on his butt on the carpet and looked at her little legs, “Mommy! Go beg Daddy for me! Let me go back to La Ciudad Santa!”
Claudio Belles got out of bed and squatted down to look at his son, and after a few seconds of reflection, he smiled as if he had understood something.
Angelo Herrán’s face flushed and he pushed Claudio Belles’ hand: “Don’t talk nonsense, Mom, it’s not true!
“Angelo Herrán, you caught me there, didn’t you?”.
Angelo Herrán’s face swelled up and he asked, “Can we go back to La Ciudad Santa or not?”
“No, Dad and I are not going back to The Holy City, how are you going to go back to The Holy City to study alone?”.
Angelo Herrán pouted and said, “Dad is so rich, he could hire me a nanny or an aunt!”
“Angelo Herran, you’re not making sense. You’re alone in The Holy City, how are Dad and I going to feel comfortable with a nanny taking care of you?”
Angelo Herrán saw that there was no more room for discussion and hit his head with his small fist.
“Mom, do you have Aunt Star’s WeChat?”.
“Yes, why, are you looking for Paulita?”
Angelo Herrán looked ingratiatingly at Claudio Belles and said: “Mom, I want to get in touch with Paulita”.
Claudio Belles almost laughed.
How old was he to know how to link?
But Claudio Belles didn’t say no, there’s nothing wrong with children liking each other, it’s always innocent, so Claudio Belles made a video call to Estrella Berrocal.
Angelo Herran then leaned back and waited expectantly for the connection.
It was a while before Estrella Berrocal came over and took the video call.
“Claudio, I just went to wash the fruit.”
Estrella Berrocal smiled and greeted Claudio Belles, who smiled back and asked, “What’s for dinner?”
“I’m pregnant and I especially feel like eating sour, Adam sent someone to buy some sour apricots for me, Adam and Paulita and the others, took a bite and they all spit it out, saying they had sour teeth, and now I’m the only one in the family who can eat sour the most.”
“Sour kids, you’re so good at eating acid, you sure have a boy.”
“We’ll see when we have the baby, by the way, how are you and Angelo doing at La Capital Imperial and is La familia Herrán especially posh?”.
At the mention of this, Claudio Belles’ head spun and he said with a helpless face, “Speaking of which, I’d like to ask you, does the Rouco family use a public fork at the table?”
Estrella Berrocal almost laughed through the screen, “No way, is the Herran family that sophisticated? It’s a family as God commands, The Rouco family eats carefree, Paulita makes a lot of fuss at the table and runs off to play with her toys for a while, so you can’t eat so nobly and decently, Sr.”
Claudio Belles, with a look of despair, “I envy you, The Herran family, where you have soup before the meal, you have to use a fork to catch the food, and the most exaggerated thing is that the table is full of light and nutritious dishes, but in the evening Montrelle Herran has ordered the cook to make some dishes to eat. ”
Estrella Berrocal clutched her stomach and laughed under her breath: “So much exaggeration? So much to eat the food? We can eat whatever we want, sometimes when Paulita and I are alone at home, we only make two dishes.”
Claudio Belles shakes his head, “You don’t understand that The Herran family eats like an ancient king, with someone at your side to serve you food.”
Angelo Herran, across the room, saw that his mother and Aunt Estrella couldn’t stop talking, so he twisted Claudio Belles’ arm and called softly, “Mom…. ”
Only then did Claudio Belles remember the real purpose of the video call: “By the way, Estrella, where is Paulita, how come I don’t see her?
In the video, Estrella Berrocal addresses Paulita and shouts: “Paulita, come here so that Tía Claudio can see you”.
Paulita approached with the little train in her arms and put herself in Estrella Berrocal’s arms waving her little hand to greet Claudio Belles in the video: “Tía Claudio”.