Back at the apartment, Esteban Zaragosa prepares to cook dinner.
“What do you want to eat tonight?”
“Fried shredded potatoes with green peppers and tomato egg soup”.
Esteban Zaragosa opened the fridge and took out tomatoes and potatoes and such. “Aren’t you tired of eating these two again?”.
Dulcina Calvo ran from the living room to the kitchen, looked at him and spoke hesitantly: “That … I still have something to ask you.”
“Ask.”
Dulcina Calvo took a deep breath and said seriously: “Lázaro Morejón also told me that you were out of line”.
Whirlpool?
Esteban Zaragosa wanted to laugh a little with those four words, left the tomatoes in his hand, looked at the girl in front of him and asked patiently, “And did he tell you how he was crossed?”.
Dulcina Calvo nodded and said, “He said you knew all along that he liked Hermina Najarro and that I was his girlfriend at the time, so you deliberately got him drunk and got him drunk enough to have sex with Hermina Najarro. ”
Esteban Zaragosa was stoic, his dark eyes fixed on her, “If it really is as he said, will you blame me and hate me?”
Dulcina Calvo bit her lip and frowned, “I was thinking about it on the way back. But I realized that even if you did, I couldn’t blame you, but I wanted to know why you did it.”
“Lázaro Morejón is very good at making up stories.”
“What, are you lying to me?”
Esteban Zaragosa raised an eyebrow and blurted out, “When have I ever had a drink with him and Hermina Najarro when he says I took advantage of getting him drunk so he would sleep with Hermina Najarro?”
Yes, Esteban Zaragosa, a man so full of himself, is not in the same league as Lázaro Morejón, and it would be possible for Esteban Zaragosa to have a drink with Adán Rouco, but with Lázaro Morejón? Esteban Zaragosa does not have to.
“Besides, who says a drunk man must be promiscuous?”
The little girl’s small hands gently tapped the kitchen counter, her watery eyes slightly downcast as she asked in a whisper, “So, what exactly do you … you see in me?”
Esteban Zaragosa looked at her with soft eyes, “Although I didn’t do what Lazaro Morejon said, I gave him a choice.”
“What choice?”
“I just wanted to test Lazaro Morejon for you, I gave him a check for five million to break up with you and I didn’t think he would say yes without hesitation. It’s not like he’s been having an affair with Hermina Najarro for a day or two, he hasn’t even considered you as his girlfriend.”
Dulcina Calvo was furious: “How dare this guy lie to me, lie to me and then slander you in front of me for nothing!”.
Esteban Zaragosa reached out and drew her into his arms, hugging her gently, his voice soft and low, “Don’t have any more dealings with people like that, if five million can make her leave you the first time, she can do it again.”
“Five million … You really gave him five million?”
Dulcina Calvo’s eyes widened, damn it, was Esteban Zaragosa on fire with money? Why had he given five million to that scumbag?
The man’s dark eyes looked at her somberly, “Five million dollars to get you, I think it’s more than worth it.”
Dulcina Calvo blushed slightly, but that didn’t mean she didn’t feel the flesh!
“… I may not make five million in my lifetime! You’ve never given Lazaro Morejon five million, you’ve never given me five million …”
Dulcina Calvo whispered this last phrase more and more timidly.
Esteban Zaragosa stared at her pretty little face and his thin lips curved, “Mrs. Esteban deserves more, everything from me, everything from you.”
Dulcina Calvo blushed up to her neck and covered her face with her small hands.
“No. … In that case, when exactly did you like me, you didn’t fall in love with me at first sight, did you?”
The more Dulcina Calvo thought about it, the more exciting it became… she had just gone to the hospital to do an internship with him and, at that moment, he had noticed her….
If he had grown fond of her then, why did he keep treating her with a cold face all day.
This man, too tall and sensual!
Esteban Zaragosa coughed dryly, ignored her and went back to cooking. Dulcina Calvo was not happy and rubbed up against him, demanding to be asked.
“If you haven’t fallen in love with me at first sight, you’ve been planning it for a long time, and Lazaro Morejon says you’ve had bad intentions with me for a long time!”.
I was really curious to know when it was.
As Esteban Zaragosa said nothing, Dulcina Calvo rolled her watery eyes and speculated, “Is it possible that you took a liking to me as soon as you entered the hospital? But what exactly did you see in me…”
The girl’s fingers tapped her chin in reflection.
“Do you really want to know?”
“Of course I want to know!”
The girl had an expectant look on her face, even her two eyes were shining with anticipation.
Esteban Zaragosa slipped a lump in his throat, “I can tell you if you’re not afraid.”
“You like me, why should I be afraid?”
Esteban Zaragosa looked her straight in the eye and said, word for word, “We met before you were in boarding school.”
Dulcina Calvo was a little surprised, but after thinking for a long time, she couldn’t think where they had met.
“No way, you are very handsome, I would have remembered you if I had seen you.”
Dulcina Calvo suddenly remembered something and looked at him in horror: “Esteban Zaragosa, it’s not like in the movie where you played with a girl next door when you were little and then fell in love with her as a child and found her again when you grew up, is it? But … but you seem to have the wrong person. For as long as I can remember, my neighborhood hasn’t had a little brother as cute as you.”
Esteban Zaragosa: “…”
“If you really got the wrong person…. I don’t care! We’ve already had sex anyway! You’ll have to answer to me even if you won’t admit it!”
Dulcina Calvo hugged Esteban Zaragosa and clung to him mischievously.
Instead of pushing her away, Esteban Zaragosa bent down and supported her back and hips, letting his legs wrap around her waist.
The man held the little kangaroo in his arms and looked at her earnestly, “I’m not wrong, I’m not looking for the wrong person, it’s Dulcina Calvo I love, all the time. ”
“But when exactly did you meet me? And why don’t I remember you at all?”
“Because it was dark that night.”
Dulcina Calvo: “…”
Wait, he seems to have remembered something!
“You, are you the killer…?”
“We met ten years ago, and you saved me that night.”
Dulcina Calvo: “… And what about the red string bracelet I have?”
The red rope bracelet with the name engraved on it, which Esteban Zaragosa always carried with him, he took the braided red rope out of his pocket and said, “Thanks to this red rope I was able to learn your name and find you.”
Dulcina Calvo swallowed, a little excited, “So you kept this red string for ten years?”.
“This is a kind of token of affection.”
Dulcina Calvo looked at the red string and her heart was deeply shaken, “So, …. you mean you’ve liked me for ten years?”.
“To be precise, it would be 3. 894 days.”
Dulcina Calvo’s eyes soured: “You haven’t fallen in love with anyone else in those 3, 000 days?
Ten years, how many people in the world can wait for someone for ten years?
The handsome man’s handsome face, approaching her small face, his hard nose, gently brushing her small nose, sighed low and muffled, “I’ve been waiting for you to grow up.”
Fortunately, ten years later, it has been transformed for the better.
What made him even more grateful was that, ten years later, he got it.
His girl, who he never knew what she really looked like at the time he got her, was like being reborn.