Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

What is there not to know in order to tell a fairy tale?

Can’t read from a storybook?

After Estrella Berrocal hurried back to the Rouco family in the eight hundred thousand dollar white Audi, once she arrived to the children’s room upstairs, she only saw there a little one and a big one, the little one sitting on the bed with a tablet watching cartoons, as for the big one … sitting on the edge of the bed looking at her phone, not knowing if she was reading the news or the finances.

“Paulita, are you still awake?”

Estrella Berrocal looked at the time on her watch, it was eight fifty.

As soon as she heard Estrella Berrocal’s voice, the little girl lifted her face from the cartoon, “Estrella!”.

Adam Rouco asked lightly, “Back”.

Estrella Berrocal nodded, “Well, I … ran back to read Paulita a bedtime story, is it … still too late?”.

Paulita was animated, her short little body got out of bed and threw her arms around Estrella Berrocal’s neck, “Estrella, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time with daddy, my eyes are tired from watching cartoons.”

Estrella Berrocal wrapped her arms around the little girl, a moment of surprise crept into her heart and her eyes looked up at Adán Rouco.

Were you also waiting for her…?

The man stood up, with a face of few friends: “You tell Paulita the story, I have business to attend to”.

Just as Adán Rouco arrived at the door, Paulita said, unsurprised, “Papa, you’ve been waiting for Estrella all night, why did you leave as soon as Estrella came back? Wouldn’t it be good for us to listen to Estrella’s story together?”.

“…”

Estrella Berrocal’s face heated up, was she really waiting for her?

The man looked a little uneasy, raised his hand to cover his fist and placed it over his thin lips, coughing slightly twice, “I don’t like to listen to stories.”

With those words, she walked out of the children’s room on her long legs.

Paulita played with Estrella Berrocal’s long hair, her little childish voice, “Estrella, is daddy being shy?”.

“Uh … probably, he really doesn’t like to hear stories.”

How could Adam Rouco be shy, if he were, would he do that unspeakable thing to him?

The blush of those indescribable images jumped into her mind and she immediately sat on the bed with Paulita in her arms and started telling stories to distract her.

…

Adán Rouco was at the studio window when he caught a glimpse of the white Audi.

Frown, frown, frown.

Adán Rouco dials a phone.

The other end was slow to pick up, and the call was noisy.

“Hello, brother-in-law, why do you have time to call me today?”.

Adán Rouco purses his lips and asks, “Who did you have dinner with tonight?”.

“With my best friend and my boyfriend, why?”.

In other words, Estrella Berrocal not only had dinner tonight with Perla Prats, but also with another man.

Perla Prats, on the other side, was momentarily puzzled: “Brother-in-law, that’s not right, how did you know I was going out to dinner with someone else tonight?”.

Adán Rouco snorted, “What day of the year don’t you eat out 365 days a year?”.

Perla Prats laughed dryly, that was true, “But brother-in-law, I … don’t tell my mother about my boyfriend yet, okay? If my mother finds out, she’ll ask about this and that again, and she might scare my boyfriend away before I’ve even talked to him!”

This time, she was actually planning to have a serious relationship, she had been in so many relationships before, and none of them she had liked and actively pursued, but Jonathan Tasis was different, Jonathan Tasis was the first man who had really made her heart flutter.

“I don’t care about your nonsense.”

With those words, the man immediately hung up the phone.

…

After Estrella Berrocal got Paulita to sleep, she went to the bedroom to wash up and, as soon as she opened it, she found the man already lying on the bed.

“You, you’re done with the business?”.

Adán Rouco closed the finance book in his hand and tossed it aside, his eyes fixed on her. “That white Audi parked in the yard, is that your car?”.

Damn, she was in a hurry to get back and had forgotten about him.

She stammered, “Er … yes.”

It is true that Adán Rouco does not drive “low-end” cars, but it is not that he did not know the approximate price of the car, between $700, 000 and $800, 000, where did he get so much money?

Estrella Berrocal took a step back and raised her hand against the approaching chest, but the man grabbed her wrist: “Where did you get so much money? Did you rob a bank today with Perla Prats?”.

Estrella Berrocal was stunned, this man, was he telling a joke?

“The money was loaned to me by Perla Prats, I just made a down payment on this car and paid it off with a slow loan later …”

Adán Rouco is such a shrewd man, how could he let himself be fooled by Estrella Berrocal in a nutshell, not even Perla Prats has that much money on him, the Prats family is now very restrictive with Perla Prats’ pocket money, they have even frozen all the girl’s credit cards, it is hard to protect yourself, there is no way he has money to spare to borrow from Estrella Berrocal to buy a car.

Seeing the man’s clear, sharp eyes, Estrella Berrocal broke the shackles, grabbed her pajamas from one side and said hurriedly, “I’m going to take a shower first.”

It wasn’t until Estrella Berrocal went into the bathroom to take a shower that Adán Rouco picked up the cell phone on the bedside table and made a call to Santino Yepes.

“Check transaction records for all Audi A7s sold at all Northside auto stores after 6 p. m. today.”

Five minutes later, an email from Santino Yepes arrived in Adán Rouco’s inbox.

When you clicked on that email, the transaction history of the email showed that only five stores had sold Audi A7s tonight, three of them in black and only two in white, and none of the five customer lists had Estrella Berrocal’s name on it, but there was another name that looked familiar….

Jonathan Tasis.

Based on Jonathan Tasis’ price and background, there’s no way he could drive an Audi A7, so the one he bought must be a gift.

As for who he was giving it to, he was giving it to a friend, not a customer, but an Audi A7, which is not too expensive.

Estrella Berrocal and Jonathan Tasis, friends?

The light under Adam Rouco’s eyes cooled slightly.

…

Estrella Berrocal came out of the bathroom having showered and rubbed her hair with a dry towel. “That, can we sleep separately tonight?”.

She was still upset about last night and as soon as she asked the question and Adán Rouco answered, the phone in her purse rang.

He dropped the towel and went to take it out of his bag, which was a mess of everything, and as he rummaged through it, a small bottle of white pills jumped out with it, falling to the floor with an unmistakable clatter, right to Adam Rouco’s feet….

The birth control pill.

Adam Rouco’s dark eyes were cold and clear as he looked down at the jar at his feet, bending down and picking it up with his long fingers.

“Do you take birth control pills?”.

Estrella Berrocal’s heart stuttered because the man’s voice was too cold, but then she felt normal again. “Well, if I don’t take the pill, you … didn’t do anything about it last night, did you? In case you did…”Content is © by NôvelDrama.Org.

“Who gave you permission to take it?”

Adán Rouco threw the pill straight into the trash while Estrella Berrocal looked increasingly confused. “What if I’m pregnant?”

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