Early the next morning, Dulcina Calvo emerged from her bedroom stretched out in a pair of bear pajamas to see a beautiful woman in a blue silk satin robe sitting at the dining room table.
“Claudio Belles?”
Claudio Belles heard the call, ate an omelet made by Esteban Zaragosa, took one cold look at Dulcina Calvo and said with disgust, “Dulcina Calvo how old are you to steal a child’s pajamas to wear?”
At Claudio Belles’ comment, Dulcina Calvo unconsciously looked down at her own pajamas, which she was ashamed of in comparison to Claudio Belles’.
Dulcina Calvo rubbed her neck awkwardly as Esteban Zaragosa came out of the kitchen with Dulcina Calvo’s breakfast and sat down at the table with a big arm around the girl’s slender shoulders.
“Sit down and eat.”
As soon as Esteban Zaragosa opened the casserole, the aroma of chicken soup hit him.
Claudio Belles’ eyes darted to this side of the casserole, “Wow, chicken soup this early, is it for the pigs?”.
Dulcina Calvo, a little embarrassed by the spiel, gave Esteban Zaragosa a little look, put up her little finger and whispered, “Why don’t we eat it, I feel funny about chicken soup in the morning too?”
Esteban Zaragosa poured a bowl of chicken soup to Dulcina Calvo, “You are very weak now, chicken soup in the morning helps you rejuvenate, drink it, be a good girl.”
Dulcina Calvo smelled the chicken soup and drank it generously.
Claudio Belles also looked a little tempted, and Esteban Zaragosa asked, “Would you like some?”.
Claudio Belles immediately withdrew his eyes and made a disgusted face, “No, I’m on a diet!”.
Dulcina Calvo looked at him with some surprise: “Claudio, you are very thin, do you want to lose weight?”.
Claudio Belles said deliberately, “I’m not like you, you have no appetite to put on bear pajamas, if I don’t keep in shape, I’m finished for life.”
“…”
Dulcina Calvo was shot in the face.
But are bear pajamas really bad? She thinks the important thing is to be comfortable and loose in pajamas, she doesn’t care too much about style.
Esteban Zaragosa fed Dulcina Calvo a bowl of chicken soup and then gave Dulcina Calvo some gingko and red date porridge, very nutritious and energetic.
After breakfast, Claudio Belles stayed on the terrace throwing stones into the pool.
Esteban Zaragosa was in the kitchen washing the dishes and Dulcina Calvo ran out to the terrace.
Claudio Belles looked at her and said in a cold voice: “What are you doing here, now that I see you I want to throw you into the pool below.”
“… Am I that annoying?”
Claudius Belles laughed and said, “You are one of those dogs that are too much of a nuisance.”
Three crows flew over Dulcina Calvo’s head, “…”
Claudio Belles pointed to the man washing dishes in the open kitchen not far away and pursed his lips, “Look what you’ve turned Esteban Zaragosa into, a home cook, I’ve never seen him like that, selling his brother for a man of your color.”
Dulcina Calvo’s teary eyes widened, “He … whom has he betrayed?”
“I ah, he sold me to save you, I still have fire in my heart, better not mess with me, maybe I’ll pierce you with a shot.”
“… oh.”
Dulcina Calvo twisted her butt in fright and backed several steps to the side, an arm’s length away from Claudio Belles, as if he was really afraid of pissing her off.
Claudio Belles laughed and cried at her bunny reaction, “If you go any further, I’ll pull out my gun.”
“What’s wrong with you, I walk up to you and you say you’re going to shoot me, I don’t piss you off and I walk away and you pull out the gun. You have a bad temper too, no wonder you don’t have a boyfriend.”
Dulcina Calvo muttered that last sentence in a whisper, almost under her breath, daring to say it out loud to the demoness.
Claudio Belles, who has a good ear, frowned: “What did you say?”.
Dulcina Calvo smiled obstinately and said, “I … I didn’t say anything! Ohhhh … I said that you are so beautiful that you don’t have to worry about finding a boyfriend. In the future you will meet a thousand, ten thousand times better men than Esteban Zaragosa, don’t worry, if you really can’t meet one, I will introduce you to him.”
Claudio Belles’ pretty eyes narrowed slightly as he stared at Dulcina Calvo, his tone was serious, “Dulcina Calvo, do you know that when you became Orlondo Marta’s puppet assassin, you were even more ruthless than me?”
Dulcina Calvo couldn’t believe it and laughed out loud, “How could I possibly be better than a professional hitwoman like you! There is no such thing!”
“You took a gun and shot Esteban Zaragosa once in the left chest and once in the right shoulder, if you don’t believe me, you can look at them sometime, the scars from those two shots must still be fading.”
Dulcina Calvo’s face suddenly lost all its color and she asked, slightly stunned, “Are you serious?”
“Dulcina Calvo, Esteban Zaragosa is truly devoted to you, and if you ever fail him, I will come back and take him away from you.”
Claudio Belles blurted out these words and left the terrace.
After changing, Claudio Belles turned to Esteban Zaragosa and said two cold words to him, “Go away.”
When Claudio Belles had left, Dulcina Calvo entered the house through the balcony, her whole body a little wandering.
Esteban Zaragosa picked up a thick, warm shawl and wrapped it around her thin shoulders. “It’s cold in the morning.”
Dulcina Calvo suddenly looked at him and said, “Esteban Zaragosa, I want to see the bullet wound you have.”
Esteban Zaragosa was slightly taken aback, “What bullet wound?”.
Dulcina Calvo’s watery eyes looked straight at him, “I shot you twice, didn’t I?”.