The Rouco family.
Adam Rouco lit the fireworks in the courtyard and Paulita, with Lucio in her arms, stood some distance away with her little ears covered, happily watching the colorful fireworks exploding in the night sky.
Estrella Berrocal came out of the house, put her arms around the two little bundles of milk at her feet, smiled softly and asked Paulita, “Paulita, have you made a New Year’s wish?”
“Not yet, I’ll allow it now!”
Paulita clasped her two little milk-white hands together, closed her eyes and mumbled a few words with her little mouth, then opened her big dark tawny eyes, tilted her little head and smiled at Estrella Berrocal, “I will, I promise!”.
Estrella Berrocal raised her hand and cupped the little one’s cheeks, “What have you wished for?”.
“I promise that Grandpa, Papa, Estrella, my brother and I, we will never be separated! Happily ever after.”
Estrella Berrocal curved her lips and looked tenderly at her daughter, “Definitely.”
At that moment, Adam Rouco finished lighting the last fireworks and turned to them.
The fireworks behind the man, rushing through the air, illuminated the night and the handsome man taking a step toward her.
Estrella Berrocal stands with her two children in her arms, smiling slightly at Adam Rouco under the bright night sky.
As Adam Rouco approached them, Estrella Berrocal said, “Come in, Papa is waiting for us, ready for New Year’s Eve dinner.”
Paulita also asked wistfully, “Does Dad still have fireworks? I still want to see them.”
“Yes, Grandpa knew you liked them and bought you fireworks sticks that you could grab and play with your hands.”
“Really, can my brother play too?”
Adam Rouco rubbed his daughter’s little head, “Your brother can’t yet, not for another two years.”
Paulita smiled cheekily, “Then I’ll help my brother play along.”
Estrella Berrocal didn’t forget to say, “You can play with Dante’s brother, he’ll be back later for New Year’s Eve dinner.”
Adam Rouco looked at Estrella Berrocal and asked quietly, “Does it look like you fully accept your sister-in-law now?”
“Anyway, Olivia Montes is the daughter-in-law of La familia Rouco until the end. Besides, even if I don’t get along with her, I’m not going to take it out on the kids, Dante is innocent, and I’m certainly not going to stop Paulita from playing with Dante. ”
Adam Rouco slipped his arm around her waist and teased, “But then, after New Year’s Eve dinner, we’ll leave. You won’t have to spend much time with her either, that’s all.”
“Retreat? Back to the villas at Repulse Bay? Let’s stay and watch the gala with Dad, shall we?”
The man frowned a little, “He’s not too old, why do you have such a bad memory, didn’t I say I was taking you somewhere tonight?”
“What’s the mystery, you’re not taking me to shoot fireworks in the ice pit are you?”
“Am I that boring?”
“…”
Adam Rouco thought about fireworks on the ice, raised an eyebrow and smiled playfully, half jokingly, half seriously, “But you can go on the ice and shoot fireworks if you want, if you’re not afraid we’ll both run across the ice and get chased by the police when the time comes. ”
Estrella Berrocal’s mouth twitched, “It’s not a good idea to go to the police station for fireworks on a New Year’s Eve.”
…
After the New Year’s Eve dinner, Adam Rouco and Estrella Berrocal spent some family time watching television.
Shortly thereafter, around eight-thirty, Adam Rouco urged Estrella Berrocal to put on the comforter, and then the two of them slipped away, unnoticed, and slipped out the back door.
As Spyker walked out of the villa area, Estrella Berrocal looked at him in amusement, “Hey Mr. Adam, where are you taking Mrs. Adam?”
“You’ll know when you get there.”
“And sell it.”
The drive is not long and, after half an hour, the car stops in front of a strip of stores.
Estrella Berrocal was a little puzzled, as the stores were closed on the street at this time of year for the New Year, “What did you bring me here for?”.
Adam Rouco had gotten out of the car, walked around the front, went to the passenger side, yanked open the door and pulled Estrella Berrocal out.
The man suddenly stood behind her and covered her eyes with his large hands.
Estrella Berrocal unconsciously reached for Adam Rouco’s hand, “Hey, Adam Rouco, I can’t see, what are you doing?”.
“Don’t worry, I won’t let you fall, I’ll put my arm around you”.
Estrella Berrocal shouted, “What an incredible surprise you are going to give me and you are going to cover my eyes?”.
“It’s not really a surprise, but I know you’ll like it.”
Hearing Adam Rouco say this, Estrella Berrocal’s curiosity increases.
“What exactly has been prepared?”
Estrella Berrocal murmured, but Adam Rouco did not answer her.
She heard the drip of a lock being opened, was the door opening?
“Is it ready yet?”
Entering the chamber, Estrella Berrocal felt a little warmth as, behind her, the man leaned in slightly and spoke softly into her ear, “There.”
The man then released the large hand covering her eyes.
Click.
The darkness of the house, all of it, was illuminated.
Before Estrella Berrocal could react to what this meant, Adam Rouco had already spoken, “I’ve always wanted to give it to you, but I wanted to hide it from you, and decorating it cost me a bit of effort and time, so I left it for now. Do you like it?”
It is a spacious studio, not only on the first floor but also on the second floor. The decor and design is simple but sophisticated, from the furniture to the furnishings, you can tell a lot of money and care has gone into it.
Estrella Berrocal was thrilled that Adam Rouco had given her a house or a house of her size, but she was thrilled that he had not given her a mansion or a villa, but a studio that she wanted.
She was needy and happy.
She turned her head to look at him, “So for a while you worked a lot of late nights and actually came here to keep an eye on the renovations?”
“Hmm. How’s that?”
Estrella Berrocal’s eyes lit up with stars and she smiled sweetly, “I love it.”
It was not only a gift of a house from Adam Rouco, but also a token of Adam Rouco’s support for her career.
“As if.”
The man took her hand and put the key in it, “It’s yours now, and then, whether you want to open an independent branding studio or do something else, I’ll support you mentally and materially.”
Estrella Berrocal jumped up and threw her arms around Adam Rouco’s neck: “Thank you husband!”.
“More than thank you, I’d like to hear…. ”
Estrella Berrocal said deliberately, “I thank you.”
Adam Rouco put his arm around the petite woman’s waist and frowned, his eyes full of satisfaction, “With my skin?”
Estrella Berrocal pulled his neck down, stood on tiptoe and kissed him on his thin lips, and between her affectionate words she murmured softly, “Adam Rouco, I love you.”
The man pressed her against the wall and kissed her for several minutes before the two parted slightly.
The man’s dark eyes bore into the small woman in his arms, and his thin lips settled on her ear as he spoke in a muffled voice, “Happy New Year’s Eve, Mrs. Adam. ”
After the studio visit, Adam Rouco and Estrella Berrocal had a real race to the pit in his car.
Estrella Berrocal: “We don’t have fireworks, what are we doing here in the pit?”
“Who says no.”
As soon as Adam Rouco opened the car, it was filled with all kinds of fireworks.
The two men had just set off their fireworks on the ice when the police arrived.
“Hey, what are you two doing on the ice! Get your asses out here!”
The fireworks went off and Adan Rouco and Estrella Berrocal smiled at each other holding hands as they ran through the cold wind on the ice.
The policeman shouted, “How dare you throw fireworks over the moat! Stop right there! Right! Stop!”
Estrella Berrocal was being dragged away by Adam Rouco and asked, panting, “Don’t the police have a New Year’s vacation? I never thought I’d run into a cop. ”
Adam Rouco: “Let’s get rid of him.”
In the wind, Estrella Berrocal looked at the man guiding her in front of her, and under her eyes, like a river of scattered, starburst-filled stars.
Fingers intertwined, everything warm, her heart, beating so fast.
“Adam Rouco.”
“Hmm?”
“Marrying you is the best thing that ever happened to me.”
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