In the morning, Dulcina Calvo wakes up shyly.
Esteban Zaragosa asked, “Are you finished? We’re going to breakfast and I’ll have someone take you to La Ciudad Santa afterwards. ”
Dulcina Calvo stood slowly in the bathroom, clenching her toothpaste and stammering, “I haven’t brushed my teeth yet, what’s the hurry?”
Esteban Zaragosa leaned against the bathroom door, his eyes fixed on her playfully, “That’s the second time you’ve brushed your teeth this morning.”
Dulcina Calvo: “Is there one in …? I forgot about it”.
He kept pounding and using, and when it was time to change, he started inking again.
“I … can I stay here a few more days before returning to The Holy City?”
Esteban Zaragosa looked at her suspiciously, “So you get a little fussy at this hour of the morning because you don’t want to leave?”
“… No, no?”
Esteban Zaragosa sighed softly and pulled her into his arms, stroking the back of her neck with his large hand and whispering coaxingly, “Be good, see you in La Ciudad Santa as soon as you can, be good.” .
“But once I leave here, I won’t be able to contact you at all, so where will you find me when you return to The Holy City?”
Esteban Zaragosa looked at her eager little face and laughed: “Where are you going to go but to work and sleep at home? Oh, and shopping with Adán Rouco’s wife, when I can’t contact you, I’ll contact Adán Rouco too. ”
Dulcina Calvo: “…. It’s fine.”
After breakfast, Esteban Zaragosa was accompanying her to the airport when Dulcina Calvo suddenly grabbed her stomach and said, “My stomach hurts a little and I want to go to the bathroom!”
After saying this, he ran off in a huff to a nearby restroom.
Esteban Zaragosa waited outside the bathroom for half a day and the man did not come out.
Esteban Zaragosa interjected from outside: “Did he fall down the well?”.
Inside, Dulcina Calvo exclaims: “… no”.
“Can we go now?”
Dulcina Calvo frowned and muttered, “Why are you in such a hurry to throw me out? Other boyfriends keep their girlfriends a few more days, but you throw me out every day.”
“If it were safe here, of course I would keep you, be a good girl and stop.”
Esteban Zaragosa takes Dulcina Calvo’s little hand and heads for takeoff.
“But what if my stomach hurts again? I’d better not go today, okay?”
“There’s a bathroom on the plane, Dulcina Calvo.”
Dulcina Calvo: “… oh.”
When she reached the entrance hatch of the plane, Esteban Zaragosa let go of her hand, looked at her and said, “Get in, you will be taken safe and sound to The Holy City. ”
Dulcina Calvo, knowing she could no longer play petty, nodded her head, but with a twist of her head, her eyes were still red.
I don’t know when we will see each other again, and, in the meantime, in case I go on some more dangerous mission …
Dulcina Calvo was about to enter the plane when, suddenly, she turned around, ran down and threw herself into Esteban Zaragosa’s arms, wrapping her arms around his neck tightly.
“You must take care of yourself and return alive to The Holy City. ”
“Yes, I will.”
Dulcina Calvo hugged him for a moment and let go of him slightly, looking at him with red eyes and a runny nose. “And remember to eat on time, your stomach has to be well nourished.”
“Good.”
“I’m off then.”
“Continued.”
Dulcina Calvo bit her lip: “I’m really leaving…”
Esteban Zaragosa smiled slightly and pulled the thin arm hanging from his neck, “Get on the plane, they’ve been waiting a long time.”
The man on the plane, after waiting a long time and seeing no one boarding, got off the plane and asked, “Chief, when are we leaving?”
Dulcina Calvo puffed out her little mouth and whispered, “What a hurry, he’s coming.”
“Get on with it.”
“Then I’m really leaving.”
“Hmm.”
Dulcina Calvo couldn’t resist a little pout: “Can I have another hug?
Esteban Zaragosa reached out and hugged the girl, patting her back.
Dulcina Calvo hugged him and said, “If you dare to lie to me, if you dare not to come back with me to The Holy City, I will never speak to you again.”
But … this does not seem to threaten him either.
But that was all she could threaten.
“My credit with you is that low? From now on, I will treat you as I say.”
Dulcina Calvo’s lips curved unconsciously at the affirmative answer, “You’d better remember what you said.”
Once Dulcina Calvo had boarded the plane, Dulcina Calvo pulled back her visor and secretly wiped her tears as she watched the faded, upright back.
Esteban Zaragosa was standing outside the takeoff field, watching the plane soar into the sky, with a soft, warm and loving gaze.
The girl on the plane was the one person in his life to whom he had given everything and whom he most wanted to protect.
The man reached into his pants pocket, felt for the red rope bracelet and grasped it tightly.
…
Back to Dulcina Calvo in La Ciudad Santa, unable to contact Esteban Zaragosa, working desperately not to think about him, she went home and fell asleep.
Estrella Berrocal called her a lot because she had been out of touch for a long time.
On Saturday, Dulcina Calvo had the day off and Estrella Berrocal invited her to go shopping.
When he arrived at the mall, Estrella Berrocal laughed at his lazy appearance and said, “No way, you’ve been working for half a month straight? Why do you look like a vampire who can’t see the sun?”.
Dulcina Calvo thought about it: “I haven’t seen the sun for about half a month, I go to the hospital in the morning, I work late at night, I take a shower and go to bed, I’m really living like a walking dead”.
“Just because you can’t see Dr. Esteban?”
Dulcina Calvo said with contempt: “We’ve been out of touch for half a month, this lack of contact, it’s actually a call, a kind of text, hey … you wouldn’t understand if I told you, you see your Adán Rouco family every day, and even if Adán Rouco is on a business trip, you can call him or record a video for him.”
“For the sake of your lovesickness, I’ll treat you to a hot pot, shrimp sliders and beef pakoras or whatever you want to order.”
Dulcina Calvo’s eyes widened: “Then why are we still shopping, let’s go straight to fondue!”.
Dulcina Calvo was dragging Estrella Berrocal up the stairs to the restaurant when Estrella Berrocal scanned her eyes and saw Lázaro Morejón.
“Dulcina, look over there, isn’t that Lázaro Morejón?”
Dulcina Calvo looked around and saw that it was Lázaro Morejón, and that he was not alone, but with his fiancée Hermina Najarro.
Just as he was about to withdraw his gaze, the eyes of Lázaro Morejón and Hermina Najarro met those of Dulcina Calvo and Estrella Berrocal here as well.
Hermina Najarro took Lázaro Morejón’s arm and smiled provocatively with her red lips: “Lázaro Morejón, isn’t that Dulcina? Let’s go greet her, and while we’re at it, tell her the date of our wedding.”
Lázaro Morejón approached Hermina Najarro.
Dulcina Calvo had no intention of listening to them and pulled Estrella Berrocal to leave when she was stopped by Hermina Najarro.
“Dulcina, why act like you don’t know us?”
Dulcina Calvo snarled, “Don’t people who cheat even feel shame these days?”
Hermina Najarro was a bit exasperated, “Who are you calling unfaithful, when you were stuck with our Lazaro Morejon, who never admitted you were his girlfriend, the fault is yours for being stupid and thinking you were in love when you were clearly a support. ”
Dulcina Calvo said amused, “That’s right, how could I date such a lousy boyfriend? My boyfriend is not only handsome and rich, but he’s also dedicated to me, he’s not looking for backup!”.