To finalize the wedding date, Lupita Vasconcellos arrived in La Ciudad Santa from Ciudad del Rey to discuss the timing of the wedding with Sr.
Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal wanted to choose a day when everyone would rest and not work, but Mr. Rouco and Mrs. It’s good for marriages and travel.
On the day of her arrival, Mrs. Vasconcellos stayed at the Rouco family and in the evening, Mrs. Vasconcellos wanted to have a personal conversation with Estrella Berrocal, so mother and daughter slept together.
Paulita was clamoring to sleep with her grandmother and mother, so Mrs. Vasconcellos and Estrella Berrocal slept on either side and Paulita slept between them, listening to their conversations with her ears open.
Mrs. Vasconcellos’ hand gently caressed Paulita’s tummy and put the little girl to sleep while she told Estrella Berrocal: “It wasn’t easy for you and Adán to get everything right, so when you get married you should be tolerant with each other. But I see that Adán is very tolerant with you, so mom feels comfortable leaving you in his hands.”
Estrella Berrocal reached over and gently took Mrs. Vasconcellos’ hand and whispered, “Mama, Adam and I, we will be good together and together we will raise Paulita and Lucio. I have a long life with Adam. ”
Mrs. Vasconcellos nodded, “I was overthinking it, Adam treats you very well. But men are not like women, a woman can love one man for the rest of her life, but once the novelty of love has worn off and the excitement a man seeks has greatly diminished, it is easy to question the marriage and the relationship. estarella, you have to learn to keep your marriage fresh.”
Estrella Berrocal naturally understood what her mother meant: “Mom, I don’t know what it’s like to be in love with other people, but when I’m with Adam, I feel like every day is new, I’ve been in love before, but I’ve never felt with someone who was so determined to define the future. ”
Mrs. Vasconcellos smiled tenderly, “Maybe you and Adam are a match made in heaven.”
In the darkness, Paulita blinked her big starry eyes and tilted her little head toward Mrs. Vasconcellos and said in a milky voice, “Grandma, my daddy and Estrella are very much in love, so don’t worry, Grandma, Estrella will be very happy when she marries my daddy!”
Mrs. Vasconcellos affectionately caressed Paulita’s little head and took her in her arms, “Well, Grandma is not worried, Grandma knows that Paulita’s father is a good man, a good father and husband”.
…
The next morning, Estrella Berrocal took Paulita to wash up and went downstairs to have breakfast with Mrs. Vasconcellos, and as soon as she left the room, she saw that the door to the master bedroom was also open.
Estrella Berrocal handed Paulita to Mrs. Vasconcellos: “Mom, why don’t you take Paulita down to breakfast while I go check on Adam?”
“Good.”
Estrella Berrocal had just entered the master bedroom when he was hugged from behind, Estrella Berrocal froze and looked at him amused, the man was dressed in house clothes, leaning on her shoulder with his eyes slightly closed, a little tired, as if he had not slept much all night.
“What’s the matter, didn’t you sleep well tonight?”
Adam Rouco grunted softly and raised his eyes slightly to look at her, “When is your mother leaving?”
“…”
Estrella Berrocal laughed: “What’s the matter, are you in such a hurry to get rid of my mother after her rare visit?”.
“If you keep sleeping with your mother for a few more days, she could develop a serious case of sleep deprivation.”
Estrella Berrocal frowned slightly and turned around, wrapping her arms around his waist and looking at him with a slight smile in her watery eyes. “It’s not that far-fetched, so if you’re going on a business trip later and I’m not with you, aren’t you going to sleep?”.
Adán Rouco leaned over his shoulder: “So I would like to make you smaller and put you in my pocket and take you everywhere”.
Estrella Berrocal looked at him suspiciously, with a smile at the corner of her lips, “Last night my mother was worried that you would be on the street when the time passed, once the shelf life of love had expired, but in this state, Mr. Adam, it seems that you are more and more dependent on me. What to do, how can Mrs. Star be so charming.”
Adán Rouco didn’t bother to contradict her, letting her shove it in his face as much as she wanted, and he hugged her around the waist and headed for the bed.
Estrella Berrocal said anxiously, “Mom and Dad and Paulita and the others are downstairs having breakfast, what are you going to do? If we go too late, they’ll get suspicious. Besides, it’s too bad it’s daytime…!”
He looked out the window at the bright sun rising, and there really was something embarrassing about … that in broad daylight.
Adam Rouco laid her on the bed, his thin lips curved as he deliberately sneered, “It’s not as if we’ve never done public lewdness in the daytime, what are we afraid of?”
Estrella Berrocal frowned and pressed her dress to her chest, “No, mom and dad, they’re going to laugh at us!”.
Adán Rouco stopped teasing her, put his arm around her waist, rubbed the back of her neck with his face, closed his eyes and whispered in her ear in a low, pleasant voice: “Stay with me for a while, it’s not appropriate to do this during the day, is it?”.
“…”
Estrella Berrocal glanced sideways at his peaceful sleeping face and, without struggling, took his hand in hers and closed her eyes as she slept with him.
This again to sleep until after ten o’clock.
When I got up, breakfast was already finished downstairs.
Felipa reheated the breakfast that had been left for her before the couple ate it.
After breakfast, Adán Rouco set to work in his studio. Estrella Berrocal had to write the wedding invitations by hand, so she moved them to Adán Rouco’s studio and sat next to him, pen in hand, transcribing the invitations.
The weather is calm, the man next to her is hard at work, and she is writing her wedding invitations.
Adán Rouco’s wedding was big news throughout La Ciudad Santa, and although the Rouco family has few relatives, Adán Rouco and the Rouco Group have a particularly large number of business associates, none of whom Estrella Berrocal knows.
Adán Rouco nodded slightly and stopped the work he was doing, his arm went around and rested on the back of the chair behind her, and his body moved closer to hers for a brief rest.
Estrella Berrocal nudged him with her arm: “This is not good for you, extremely bad, people out there will say someday that I am a redhead”.
Adán Rouco was not at all impressed and scoffed, “Are the red-haired hands tired?”.
“Adán Rouco, who are you calling a redhead?”
Estrella Berrocal threw him the invitation out of the blue.
“Okay, okay, I’ll transcribe some copies for you.”
When the man picked up the pen and the invitation, he scrutinized the invitation she had written and disliked her in passing, “Why is the handwriting so ugly?”
“Where’s the ugly, you just can’t tell how pretty it is! Who still writes handwritten invitations nowadays, they’re all electronic invitations, okay? These are all thoughts, and you think my writing is ugly, I’m not writing it, your writing is pretty, you write it!”
With that, Estrella Berrocal got up and was about to leave, when Adán Rouco coaxed her with a smile and pulled her to sit down. “I had bad eyes a moment ago, but look again now, Mrs. Estrella’s handwriting is quite distinctive.”
Is he ugly with character?
The corner of Estrella Berrocal’s mouth twitched: “…”