Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Estrella Berrocal took a big step back to keep a safe distance from Jonathan Tasis, “President Jonathan, don’t be ridiculous, I don’t just have a boyfriend, I have a son.”

Jonathan Tasis didn’t care, laughed cynically and said, “Boyfriends break up too, and as for the baby, it’s just a surrogate, not the product of your love for Adam Rouco.”

“You!”

Jonathan Tasis’ provocative words caused Estrella Berrocal to glare at him.

“Besides, even if you were married to Adán Rouco, so what? Nowadays, those who are married still get divorced, and who can guarantee that who is who for the rest of your life?”

Estrella Berrocal dropped the papers in her hand on her desk, “President Jonathan, please review the drawing, I have work to do, so I will leave you.”

Ignoring Jonathan Tasis’ words, Estrella Berrocal left the office.

But after he left the office, the words Jonathan Tasis had spoken echoed in his ears like a magical message.

Paulita was not the fruit of her love affair with Adán Rouco, and although she was related to him, she seemed an outsider, unable to integrate into the life of La Villa Rouco.

Can she and Adán Rouco really be together?

Estrella Berrocal has always had a doubt in her head: she agreed to be a surrogate for the $10 million, but why would Adán Rouco want a strange woman to be a surrogate? Was it just to have a child?

…

Estrella Berrocal called after work when Adán Rouco called.

“Are you off work yet?”

Estrella Berrocal replied as she packed her suitcase, “I just got off work and will be down soon.”

“I am in front of Yahua Film and Television Company.”

Estrella Berrocal was stunned as she hurried out of the office with her phone in one hand and her purse in the other. “Did you come looking for me on purpose?”.

The man merely replied, “Certainly.”Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

The man’s voice was always cold and unmistakably kind and affectionate, but Estrella Berrocal was flattered.

…

As soon as Estrella Berrocal stepped out of the Yahua Film and Television Company building, she saw a black Maybach not far away.

It was Santino Yepes who was driving the car, probably because Adán Rouco had not yet recovered from the injury to his right arm.

When Estrella Berrocal got into the car, Santino Yepes looked in the rearview mirror at the two people in the back seat, smiled and deliberately mentioned Estrella Berrocal: “Miss Estrella, I’ve been at the Yahua Film and Television Company for a good half hour.”

Estrella Berrocal froze and raised her eyes slightly to look at the man sitting next to her, who seemed calm and cool.

Adán Rouco frowned slightly and his cold eyes were fixed on Santino Yepes, who was driving in front of him. “Drive your car right!”.

“Yes, boss!”

So what someone had said earlier on the phone, that he was coming to pick her up on his way, was simply a lie.

Who stops to wait for someone for half an hour?

Estrella Berrocal walked up to him, reached out and put her arm around him, rested her head on his shoulder and deliberately asked, “Did you come looking for me at work on purpose?”

Adán Rouco pursed his lips and looked at her arrogantly, “If not, do you think I would be bored enough to wait for you for half an hour?”

His tone was cold, but Estrella Berrocal’s heart was filled with sweetness and her arms tightened around him.

“Do you hold me so tightly that you want my injured arm to stay that way?”.

The man’s sudden mocking words startled Estrella Berrocal, who then remembered that her arm was not yet healed and let go.

“I forgot your arm was still intact.”

Adán Rouco mocks: “I’m afraid someone will take it away from you, that’s why I hold it like this, gently”.

Estrella Berrocal blushes.

…

Upon arriving at La Villa Rouco, Adán Rouco tells her: “Estrella, you go back first, I have work to discuss with Santino Yepes”.

Estrella Berrocal didn’t think much of it and nodded, thinking that Adán Rouco and Santino Yepes had work to discuss and that it was not convenient for her to be present.

Estrella Berrocal got out of the car and entered the house before Adán Rouco asked her, “What happened to what I asked you to investigate?”

“Boss, Lucrecia Javier is not pregnant. I think she got tired of lying to you about it.”

Adán Rouco growled coldly, with a stern look in his dark eyes, “Keep investigating, I’m afraid you’ve done more than just lie to me.”

“What BOSS means is …”

Is it possible that Lucrecia Javier lied to BOSS about that day at the hotel?

“But there was no surveillance in the hotel suite and Lucrecia Javier is adamant that …”

Adán Rouco said in a deep voice: “If she lied, something must have broken”.

…

When Estrella Berrocal entered the house, Roberto Rouco was casually sitting on the living room sofa reading the newspaper.

Estrella Berrocal greeted politely: “Dad … uncle”.

She wanted to call Adán Rouco “daddy”, but then she thought that Roberto Rouco had not fully accepted her, and that calling him “daddy” might upset the Great President Rouco.

Roberto Rouco dropped the newspaper in his hand, looked at her, grabbed his cane and said, “Didn’t you break up with Adam? Didn’t you go back home? Why did you come back to La Villa Rouco? Do you think you can come and go from La Villa Rouco whenever you want to?”

I came and went without greeting Roberto Rouco, and I knew the old man was angry.

“I …”

Just when he didn’t know how to explain himself, Adán Rouco walked through the door.

“Dad, if you don’t think Estrella and I are in your way, we’re moving out of La Villa Rouco tomorrow.”

Roberto Rouco looked up and stared at Adán Rouco, his brow deeply furrowed: “Are you serious?

“Now Paulita is always late for school, we will move closer to the daycare, not only will Paulita sleep more, but it will be much easier for me to get to work.”

Adán Rouco had made his case so well that Roberto Rouco knew he could not stop him from making his decision, so he simply stood up and, with a cold grunt and no comment, headed for his study.

When he reached the door of his study, he turned slightly, holding his cane, and said, “I don’t mind you moving in, but Paulita must come home on Saturday weekends.”

With those words, he entered the studio.

Estrella Berrocal did not believe that Srila Prabhupada would accept their moving so easily.

“Why have you suddenly thought of moving?”.

“Aren’t you happy?”

How could she be unhappy? She was the happiest of all, she had not wanted to live under the same roof as Olivia Montes and was afraid to spend time with the great Presidente Rouco, but now that Adán Rouco was moving in with her and Paulita, it would be like having a separate “family”, how could she be unhappy?

“Of course I’m happy, but I’m afraid Paulita will miss her grandfather.”

“If she misses it, I’ll send her to stay at La Villa Rouco after school.”

As soon as it came out of his mouth, Adán Rouco’s cell phone rang.

He looked at the caller ID and did not answer, Estrella Berrocal approached and asked, “Who is calling?”.

He turned the phone so that the caller ID was not visible to Estrella Berrocal, and said in a soft voice, “A call from work.”

Estrella Berrocal did not suspect and went upstairs before Adán Rouco called back.

Juliet Sarinana, on the other end of the line, asks, “Why didn’t you answer the phone earlier?”

Adán Rouco merely purses his lips and asks, “What’s going on?”

“I’m just calling to remind you that the medication I gave you last time should be finished by now, so why don’t you come pick it up at my house in the next few days.”

“Okay, got it.”

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