Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Estrella Berrocal rushed out of the hospital with her mind scrambled as she drove her car without knowing where to go.

The Villa Rouco? It was not his real home.

Back to La Villa Berrocal? Dad was gone and the villa was cold and empty, leaving her alone.

When you are sad, you can be very vulnerable, especially when you are alone, like Estrella Berrocal.

In this city, he has no family, no one to trust.

Tears fall from her eyes as she remembers Adam Rouco’s cold and angry stare, her vision blurs, her hands tremble and go numb from crying, her senses diminish, and just as she turns the corner, a car drives towards her, and she dodges it, slamming on the brakes!

The two cars were about to crash into each other when the black Bentley jerked out of the way and slammed into the guardrail on one side.

Estrella Berrocal had pale fingers as she gripped the steering wheel and closed her eyes tightly as she slammed on the brakes, but the expected violent impact was delayed.

His taut heartstring finally snapped at that moment.

Jonathan Tasis got out of the black Bentley, walked over to his car with long legs and knocked on his window.

“Mr. Jonathan?”

How could it be him?

“Miss Star, how dare you go out on the road with such driving skills, even if you yourself are not afraid of death, you can’t wreak havoc on others.”

Jonathan Tasis was not at all nervous or scared after the accident, his tone was quite relaxed and he even had the grace to tease her.

Estrella Berrocal’s mind was in a daze as she got out of the car and muttered, “Excuse me, let’s call the police!”.

Jonathan Tasis saw that her eyes were red, “Are you crying?”.

Estrella Berrocal raised her hand to wipe the tears from her eyes and sniffled a couple of times, “I’m not, it’s just that my eyes don’t feel good…”

“What I got tonight, so many car accidents in the north side, never had one since I’ve been driving, first time for Miss Star.”

Jonathan Tasis’ last sentence, spoken with such ambiguity that Estrella Berrocal frowned and froze for a second before asking curiously, “Mr. Jonathan did you say there have been a lot of car accidents in the Northside tonight?”

“Yes, there have been a lot of car accidents from behind tonight, Miss Star even if I called the police to come now, I don’t think the police department has the manpower to come, none of us are hurt and we know each other, so let’s take it privately.”

So it was likely that Dante’s accident was unintentional, Olivia Montes was just taking advantage of the incident so that Adán Rouco would think it was one of those who didn’t know each other?

Jonathan Tasis, seeing her pensive and quiet, raised his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, “Miss Star, detained? Let me take you to the hospital to get you checked out.”

With those words, Jonathan Tasis took her by the hand and headed for the black Porsche.

Estrella Berrocal struggled, “I’m fine, let me go, I’m not going to the hospital, Jonathan Tasis, let me go, do you hear me, I’m not hurt.”

“Some injuries can’t be seen, after all, what just happened was a car accident, both you and I need to get checked out.”

She said it eloquently and convincingly, Estrella Berrocal frowned, “I’ll drive myself, I won’t bother Mr. Jonathan.”

“How dare you drive with that driving knowledge?”.

“I’m just in … tonight.”

He was just in a bad mood, plus his vision was blurred from his tears, and he tended to lose the sense of his hands and feet when he cried, which is why he accidentally got into a car accident.

Jonathan Tasis stared at her, “You were just what, you’re in a bad mood?”

She bit her lip and lowered her watery eyes, not speaking again.

Jonathan Tasis glanced at his car and growled softly, “The car Adam Rouco gave you? Your car, I’ll have my assistant come take it back to the Rouco family for you, you’re in no condition to drive in your current state, you could easily make a scene.”

Estrella Berrocal was shocked: “How do you know about my relationship with Adán Rouco?

Jonathan Tasis got into the car, rolled down the window and said to Estrella Berrocal, who was standing outside the car, “Get in.”

In her current state, she really wasn’t fit to drive, and with that bump she really needed to be checked out, she opened the door of the Bentley and sat in the back seat.

Jonathan Tasis curved his lips and chatted with her as he drove, “Miss Star, you look a lot like an old friend of mine when you cry.”

Estrella Berrocal was not interested in the topic and thought Jonathan Tasis was trying to make conversation, “Really?”

“A friend of Adán Rouco, too”.

Jonathan Tasis glanced in the rearview mirror and gave him a mischievous look.

Estrella Berrocal’s eyelashes fluttered slightly. “Are you a friend of Adán Rouco?”.

“It was, Adán Rouco and I were very good friends.”

Before? So not now?

As Estrella Berrocal said nothing, Jonathan Tasis added: “I advise you to stay away from Adán Rouco, he is a man who never thinks about anyone else, and you will only get hurt if you are with him.”

Jonathan Tasis sounded as if he had been friends with Adán Rouco in the past and Estrella Berrocal frowned slightly, “Mr. Jonathan, this is my doing, I don’t seem to know Mr. Jonathan very well.”

“You seem to have fallen in love with Adán Rouco now?”.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“None of your business.”

…

Upon arriving at the hospital, Estrella Berrocal looked to see that it was the Hospital del Pueblo, the hospital where both Adán Rouco and Olivia Montes were still staying, in case they met up later.

She bit her lip and asked, “Mr. Jonathan, can we move on to another hospital?”

Jonathan Tasis gave her a questioning look, “The People’s Provincial Hospital is the best hospital in the North, and the closest and best equipped, is there anyone in this hospital that Miss Estrella doesn’t want to see?”

Jonathan Tasis was such a smart guy that it wasn’t hard to guess by watching the way Estrella Berrocal dodged.

He didn’t like having someone he didn’t know well poking around in his mind and got out of the car. “Didn’t Mr. Jonathan say there were a lot of accidents out back on the north side tonight? I thought the People’s Hospital was busy right now, but since we’re here, let’s go in.”

Jonathan Tasis hooked his lips and followed Estrella Berrocal into the hospital.

…

Here, outside the operating room, Adán Rouco and Olivia Montes were still on duty.

When Santino Yepes returned from the bathroom, he reported with a frown: “Boss, I just saw Miss Estrella, with … Jonathan Tasis.”

What was Miss Star doing in the hospital with Jonathan Tasis in the middle of the night?

Santino Yepes felt the man next to him and his gaze was imbued with three shades of cold when the man asked in a cold voice: “Where are they?”.

“In front of the CAT scan room”.

Adán Rouco got up and went to the CT room.

“Adam, where are you going? Dante he…”

“Then I’ll come.”

With those words, the man left with long legs and a sullen, handsome face, walking quickly.

…

Outside the CAT scan room, Estrella Berrocal sat on a bench with a downcast face, and Jonathan Tasis’s narrowed eyes narrowed as he saw Adán Rouco approaching from a short distance away.

He looked at Estrella Berrocal and brought his lips close to her ear, and Estrella Berrocal, startled, reached out her hand to push him away, but she heard him say in a slow voice: “You look like my friend when you cry. She was Adán Rouco’s first love, and Adán Rouco was never going to marry in his life for her”.

Estrella Berrocal was momentarily stunned and forgot to push him away, her watery eyes just staring stiffly at him, her little face ashen.

The way they stood head to head, from an outsider’s perspective, looked like an intimate couple whispering something, especially with the soft smile tugging at the corners of Jonathan Tasis’ lips.

“What are you doing?”

A cold, male voice brought Estrella Berrocal out of her daze.

He looked back and saw Adam Rouco watching them with a stern look on his dark face, as if he had come to catch them in the act of adultery.

Jonathan Tasis, however, stood up and said affectionately, “As you can see Mr. Adam, I was talking to Miss Star about a secret that no one else can hear.”

Adam Rouco’s icy eyes pulled Estrella Berrocal into a hug, clasped her firmly around the waist and sneered, “Since when does Mr. Jonathan like married women?”

“Miss Estrella is married to Mr. Adam? But what has Miss Estrella told me about her relationship with Mr. Adam?”

Estrella Berrocal’s watery eyes grew dazed, “Jonathan Tasis, you …”

Jonathan Tasis was right, she wasn’t married to Adán Rouco, was she?

He looked at the man angrily and bit his lip.

Who was he to get angry? She wasn’t his wife!

He had trusted Olivia Montes so much that he hadn’t even kicked her out of the hospital, and now he was looking for her?

Estrella Berrocal angrily pushed him: “Adán Rouco, let go of me!

Adam Rouco had no intention of letting go, and Jonathan Tasis scoffed, “I didn’t realize that Mr. is not appropriate, did I?”

Estrella Berrocal looked at Adán Rouco with reddened eyes and said, “Mr. Jonathan is right, Sr.

Adán Rouco grimaced, an act of chivalry?

What was her relationship with Jonathan Tasis, who was Jonathan Tasis to her, and now she was going to leave him alone for Jonathan Tasis?

Adam Rouco let her off coldly, his dark eyes fixed on Jonathan Tasis and sneered, “It’s true she’s not married to me, but she’s already given me a son, sor ago.

With those words, the man gave her a stern look before turning and striding away.

Estrella Berrocal looked behind her back and her heart dropped to her core.

In Adán Rouco’s mind, she was a woman who did not love herself. …

Warm tears, falling from her eyes.

“What Adam Rouco wants most, will always be himself, you will not be able to enter his heart.”

Estrella Berrocal swallowed saliva and looked at Jonathan Tasis with reddened eyes, “Did you just say I cry like Adam Rouco’s first love?”

“Yes. At first Adán Rouco decided not to marry for the rest of his life for her, but old Señor Rouco was pressing so hard that Adán Rouco turned to a surrogate womb so that old Señor Rouco’s wish would be fulfilled and he would not have to marry. But I didn’t realize that it was you, Miss Estrella, who had gone to the surrogate womb for him.”

Estrella Berrocal frowned, not realizing that Jonathan Tasis knew everything, but what did he intend by telling her all this?

But what made Estrella Berrocal even more curious was Adán Rouco’s “first love”. “If he liked her so much, why didn’t he stay with her?”.

Jonathan Tasis looked at her with an icy stare and three words escaped his lips, “She’s dead.”

Estrella Berrocal froze in place, her body tingling.

So she had become a “surrogate”?

Had Adam Rouco chosen her as a replacement because of her resemblance to his first love?

Estrella Berrocal finds herself afraid to think beyond the …

What kind of emotions did Adán Rouco feel for her?

The nurse came out of the CT room and shouted, “108, Estrella Berrocal!”.

Jonathan Tasis reminded, “Miss Star, come in and take the test, if there is anything, it’s not too late to finish it.”

Estrella Berrocal wiped away her tears, her mind scrambled, and entered the CT room.

…

Once the tests were done, Estrella Berrocal was brought back to the Rouco family by Jonathan Tasis.

Upon entering the house, Felipa saw Estrella Berrocal all tired and said: “Third young grandmother, how are you?

“I’m fine, where is Paulita, is she asleep?”

“Not yet, she’s in her room watching cartoons, I gave her a bath.”

Estrella Berrocal nodded and went upstairs and straight to Paulita’s room.

As soon as she saw her, Paulita got out of bed and hugged her neck, saying with a little pout, “Estrella, why didn’t you take me with you when you went to the movies with daddy? I’m the only one in the house, and my brother is away, so you all went out and didn’t take me with you! Did Daddy come back with you?”.

Estrella Berrocal hugged her and said, “My brother is hurt and dad is taking care of him in the hospital, can I sleep with you tonight?”.

When he left the Rouco family, he feared he would see too little of Paulita, but did he really want to?

But if he had to stay with Adán Rouco for Paulita’s sake, he couldn’t do it now.

There are too many people and things between her and Adán Rouco, Olivia Montes, Dante … and now Adán Rouco’s first love.

If she had to be reduced to a substitute, she would prefer to renounce her affection for Adán Rouco.

Asking her to be a surrogate, to live as a shadow, I couldn’t do it.

Besides, it was clear that Adán Rouco did not have the slightest confidence in her, right?

Paulita asks worriedly: “Estrella, what’s wrong with brother, has he burned his hand again with the boiling water?

“No, it should be fine, don’t worry, wait a few days and your dad will take you to see your brother.”

The little boy asked with a frown, “What about you – aren’t you coming with me?”

Tears fell silently from Estrella Berrocal’s eyes, “Paulita, will you hate me if I leave?”.

Paulita clung to her neck with her little hands and asked incredulously, “Estrella, why are you leaving me?”

Estrella Berrocal pursed her lips, her nose tingling, unable to speak and not knowing what to say to Paulita.

Paulita raised her little hand to wipe her tears, “Estrella are you unhappy here?”.

The little girl could feel his emotions and said in a little voice, “Star, is Daddy bullying you? I’ll help you teach daddy a lesson, don’t go away, ok?”.

Estrella Berrocal shook her head, sniffled, gently rested her forehead against the little girl’s milky white forehead and said softly, “Paulita, I’m sorry.”

… Paulita, I’m sorry, Mom may not be able to be with you all the time.

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