Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

During Dante’s stay in the hospital, Adán Rouco and Olivia Montes took turns, sometimes together in the hospital, so “affectionate” in Estrella Berrocal’s opinion.

These days, Estrella Berrocal hardly sees Adán Rouco.

He stays overnight at the hospital and returns to La Villa Rouco long after Estrella Berrocal has left for work.

Dante was transferred to the general ward on the fifth day of his stay, Adán Rouco took a short break from work and started working as usual, while Olivia Montes took a short vacation to stay at the hospital and take care of Dante.

For almost a week, Estrella Berrocal and Adán Rouco did not speak to each other or even look at each other.

During the week, Adán Rouco had accumulated a lot of work and paperwork, and in the meetings, the marketing director of the outdoor department would talk animatedly about proposals and PowerPoint presentations, but Adán Rouco would get distracted several times.

Santino Yepes noticed this and whispered in his ear, “Boss, are you a little tired from all the rest you’ve had lately? Do you want us to adjourn the meeting?”.

Adán Rouco was perplexed, his dark eyes rose and he said with pursed lips: “No, go on”.

After a long but unproductive meeting, the others left the room and Adán Rouco sat in his black swivel chair for a long time, wondering what he was thinking.

Santino Yepes approached him with a cup of freshly brewed coffee, “Boss, haven’t you made peace with Miss Estrella yet?”.

Adam Rouco’s dark eyes ran over him like a cold knife.

Santino Yepes fell silent, had he said something wrong?

After a long moment, the man said with a sullen face, “I was worried about Dante’s injuries.”

Unconsciously, Santino Yepes said, “Hasn’t the young teacher been moved out of the ICU and is he in stable condition?”

As soon as the words left his mouth, Santino Yepes felt like a million ice knives were flying at him.

Well, nowadays it is not fashionable to tell the truth …

Adam Rouco became slightly annoyed and frowned, “Keep an eye on the creative department in Director Olivia’s absence these days.”

Although Director Olivia is not here, but the acting deputy director, the creative department can only be considered a small department attached to the Rouco Group, compared with some subsidiaries and large departments, generally Rouco Group for the creative department is a kind of permissive management, the creative department side will have no problem, the BOSS this is for him to pay more attention to the creative department, or more attention to Miss Star?

Santino Yepes bit his tongue and replied respectfully, “Yes, I will definitely pay more attention to the creative department and keep the boss informed of any developments there.”

“What happened to the things you were asked to look into?”.

Santino Yepes immediately said, “Miss Estrella hit Jonathan Tasis’ car after leaving the hospital that night and had a small car accident, that’s why she went to the hospital with Jonathan Tasis to have a CAT scan.”

The man’s eyes fluttered and his heart fluttered, “Why are you only telling me now?”

Santino Yepes felt aggrieved: “No, didn’t you tell me not to mention Miss Estrella?

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Adán Rouco snorted: “If I don’t want you to mention it, you won’t? didn’t you just mention it with a lot of enthusiasm?”.

“…”

Adán Rouco stood up and, with a frown on his face, left the room with long strides.

Santino Yepes stubbornly followed him with a clear coffee, “Boss, in fact … girls, you can put your foot down and coax them in. As the saying goes, women in their forties are like this cup of coffee, bitter and fairytale-like and hard to cajole, but young women in their twenties, like Miss Estella, are like Sprite.”

Sprite? What kind of metaphor is that?

When Santino Yepes saw that Adán Rouco was not staring at him, he continued: “The thing about Sprite is that it’s airy, it’s strong, you can only hold it, you can’t shake it, if you shake it, it explodes. If you’re not embarrassed to give it a stir, the girls will have already gone over it, but they’re embarrassed to say anything.”

Adán Rouco grunted slightly, incredulous: “If you were to give your job that much thought, your annual salary would double”.

It was a bit sarcastic at first glance, but Santino Yepes realized that Adán Rouco was congratulating him.

There were many competent assistants in the world, but very few could solve the boss’s problems. If an assistant was more competent than the boss, the boss either took care of him or fired him.

…

After work, Adán Rouco went to the nursery to pick up Paulita from school.

Paulita was sitting in the car, eating a sandwich, when she said to Adán Rouco, “Dad, have you had a fight with Estrella lately?”

Adán Rouco looked at the little girl in the rearview mirror, “Why do you ask?”.

“Estrella hugged me and cried the other day, she’s not happy in our house, dad, what are we going to do if Estrella leaves us?”.

If Estrella leaves, she and her father will be alone again.

Adán Rouco’s eyes deepened a little and he said no more.

…

Upon arriving at the Rouco’s house, Adán Rouco led Paulita inside the house, Estrella Berrocal, who had been downstairs, turned to go upstairs when she saw Adán Rouco enter, but Paulita, who had run, hugged her thigh, “Estrella, why are you ignoring me?”

Estrella Berrocal’s eyelashes fluttered and she looked at the little girl, “I’m not ignoring you.”

Raising her hand, she stroked Paulita’s head affectionately.

“Star, you just sit here, don’t go anywhere, and have a good talk with daddy, okay?”.

Estrella Berrocal did not dare say no, but she and Adán Rouco had been engaged in a cold war lately and had not spoken to each other.

But seeing Paulita looking at her with wide, innocent eyes, she pursed her lips and said nothing for a moment.

Adán Rouco handed Paulita his backpack and instructed her: “Go to your room and read for a while.

Paulita nodded, backpack in hand, knowing that her father was going to talk to Estrella alone, and as she left, she whispered to Estrella Berrocal, “Estrella, you have to talk to your father properly, you can’t get angry, he has a terrible temper.”

The man frowned and coldly called her by her first name: “Paula Rouco”.

Paulita puffed up her little mouth and ran upstairs immediately with her school bag in her arms, it wouldn’t be good if daddy came after her and spanked her.

How could she find a mom as good as Estrella when her dad had such a bad temper?

When Paulita came upstairs, Estrella Berrocal took the diamond ring off her ring finger and gave it back to her. “When old Señor Rouco gets out of the hospital, I’ll explain everything and we won’t have to pretend we are husband and wife anymore, and you won’t have to threaten me with La Villa Berrocal. This diamond ring, back to you.”

Adam Rouco’s dark eyes stared at her with a deep, cold stare that made her scalp tingle, without the slightest intention of reaching out to take it.

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