Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

After Adán Rouco bandaged his hand, he got up and went to the kitchen.

Paulita ran up to Estrella Berrocal and plopped down on the couch with her big eyes shining, “Estrella, you’re going to marry daddy so you can see me every day, Estrella don’t you like my daddy?”

Estrella Berrocal blushed slightly, “But, but… your dad doesn’t like me, does he?”

Paulita furrowed her little white eyebrow, “I bet Daddy likes Estrella!”.

“How can you be so sure?”.

“Star if you don’t believe me, I’ll ask my dad for you!”.

“Love?”

I was about to stop Paulita when she had already run into the kitchen.

Estrella Berrocal went after her, only to find Adán Rouco standing in the kitchen in an elegant dress, ready to cook….

She thought she was returning the medicine cabinet to the kitchen cupboard, but she had no idea that the man was going to cook!

Adam Rouco’s dark eyes looked at her coldly, was she so surprised to see him cooking?

She approached him and said, “You can go out with Paulita, I’ll do it.”

The man’s eyes bugged out as he looked at his injured finger, “I don’t like to enslave the disabled.”

“…”

Paulita grabbed Adán Rouco’s pants and asked him with a face of few friends: “Dad! Estrella asked you if you liked her!”.

With that question, Paulita ran off mischievously.

Estrella Berrocal froze, speechless: “No, it wasn’t me who asked, it was Paulita who was naughty, she…”

Adam Rouco left the dishes in his hand and turned to look at her with deep, burning black eyes, his tone cold: “Do you think I would be too idle to risk my life for a woman I don’t even know, and now I’m too idle to ask this woman to marry me?”

“…”

Estrella Berrocal’s brain got a little confused for a moment.

He even thought his ears were wrong, why were those words, which sounded like “love talk” coming from Adán Rouco, so strange?

The man’s thin, cold tone sounded not as if he was talking about love, but as if he was angry with her.

She hung her burning face, neither raising her head nor speaking, and the man’s long fingers cupped her chin, forcing her to lift her face to meet his. “Why don’t you say anything?”

Hadn’t you asked Paulita to ask this question to get this answer?

He slowly approached her scarlet face, and the fresh scent of tobacco lingered around him, and his mouth went dry and he swallowed.

What did he mean when he said it was not too idle to …

like?

“Me, I’m going to check on Paulita, I’m afraid she’ll fall if she plays alone…”

She turned hurriedly to leave the kitchen, but Adán Rouco pulled her back against the corridor.

Before she could react to what he was about to do, the man’s thin lips, already pressed against hers, met hers.

It was a surprise, but he couldn’t push it away.

Although at one time they had been arguing and having a cold war, they had rekindled it with a few words from him.

Even Estrella Berrocal herself began to despise herself for being so ungraceful in front of Adán Rouco.

When she had been in love with Iván Martínez, she had not been so eager to reconcile with him even when she had had a fight with him, but how had she reached this point with Adán Rouco?

Her slender hands, unconsciously wrapped around his neck, responded to his kiss.

Estrella Berrocal had not always been carried away by the heat of the moment, but when she met Adán Rouco, everything had changed.

He began to ignore her, willing to take all of Adán Rouco’s steps as long as he would take them.

As they kissed, Paulita, lying on her back in the kitchen doorway, let out a mischievous giggle with her white hands covering her mouth.

Adam Rouco gently pressed his lips to hers, his voice low and magnetic as he began, “You asked me a question and I gave an answer, so how do you plan to answer mine?”

Estrella Berrocal froze, her watery eyes moistened by the kiss, and looked at him stunned: “That question wasn’t asked by me, it was asked by Paulita. …”Material © of NôvelDrama.Org.

Her hand still dangling from his neck, the two were in a position, for the moment, ambiguous in the extreme.

Adam Rouco’s large hands rested on her waist, his dark eyes looked down at her, “Does it matter?”

It doesn’t really seem to matter …

But what did you ask him?

“What do I have to answer?”

Just now, wasn’t your initiative an answer?

Seeing the man pursing his lips in silence, Estrella Berrocal bit her lip and said, “One minute you say I’m not important, and the next you say you almost lost your life for me, it’s my turn to ask you what you really mean, isn’t it?”

“Well, I wanted to ask you, will you marry me?”

“…”

Perhaps he had been too frank and direct, and Estrella Berrocal was momentarily stunned.

Adam Rouco’s brow furrowed slightly at the sight of her, “What, you don’t understand?”.

“We’ve only been together a short time, why are we in such a hurry to get married?”.

Adán Rouco let go of her and stood with his head down, chopping vegetables, while saying, “If it’s sooner or later, sooner or later, why not sooner?”

This answer made Estrella Berrocal choke.

“What kind of lame excuse is that, not even a proposal…”

Actually, even for Paulita’s sake, Estrella Berrocal had thought about it and would have said yes to Adán Rouco’s request in 80 or 90 percent of the cases, but wouldn’t it be too hasty to get married just like that?

Adam Rouco looked at her with deep eyes and said, “Didn’t you say I had no right to control you? Would it be enough if I were like your spouse?”

Estrella Berrocal’s heart sweetened unconvincingly, but she said with a sullen look, “But you can’t control everything, like where I work and who I make friends with, I don’t want to get married and become a person without any freedom.”

Adam Rouco went back to chopping vegetables and said in a calm voice, “But not Jonathan Tasis.”

“Why?”

“As you’ve heard, he and I are bitter rivals.”

Estrella Berrocal sensed that there was something else going on, that it might have something to do with the late “Analena”.

But Estrella Berrocal asked about Analena at that time, “But Yahua Film and Television Company is perfect for me, and I want to change my career to jewelry design, and Yahua Film and Television Company is the best choice.”

“If you want to learn something, I can get you the best teacher.”

Estrella Berrocal stayed at the kitchen table, absentmindedly pecking at the dishes, knowing that disobeying Adán Rouco would obviously upset him now, so she said no more.

Is that …

Why did it seem so inappropriate for Adán Rouco to ask for her hand at this time?

After all, their relationship was far from marriageable.

But Adán Rouco was a man who could not be denied, and since he had already had the idea, Estrella Berrocal could hardly refuse.

After all, it was a fact that she liked it too.

“Adán Rouco, have you really decided that … want to marry me?”

Estrella Berrocal was optimistic and thought that if Adán Rouco married her, he would not lack opportunities to fall in love with her later on.

As for this Analena, he did not believe that Adán Rouco could forget her after all the time that had passed since her death.

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