Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Severo Laris looked at her with an implacable gaze. He was carrying a paper bag, from which he took out a copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales and handed it to Paula Rouco.

“Afterwards, if you get too lonely here, read a book.”

Paula Rouco shook her head with reddened eyes and looked at him pleadingly, “Severo … take me outside …”

Severo Laris took a deep breath, shook her little hand and said, “lita, I would only be irresponsible with you if I took you home now, I don’t want you to get hurt again for having to protect the little bean sprouts. If only for my sake, think hard about the contradictions and points of conflict that exist between Little Bean Sprouts and reality, okay?”

Paula Rouco grabbed his big hand and choked, “I’ll go home and think it over … Severo … I can go home and think about it …. Can I?”

She was as helpless as a child, and when she clung to him, it was as if she had clung to a life preserver.

Severo Laris couldn’t bear to turn her away, but he had to.

Paula Rouco saw that he was silent for a long time and only looked at her with pity.

“Here … I am not free at all … I do not become like Paula Rouco … Severo … take me out … as I am now … must be a disaster … too much of a mess … I don’t like it … I don’t like it like this”.

Paula Rouco’s eyes, dripping with tears, were reddened with water and sympathetic to the core.

Severo Laris raised his hand, his fingers gently wiped away her tears, “The unhappiness is only temporary, when you are better, Albarran Bail will agree and let me come to see you more often.”

“No … I don’t want to be here alone … Take me home … Severo… … please … They spy on me… I’m no longer just a little animal… I’m nothing but a little animal… Get me out of here… I don’t want to be locked up all the time… Severo…”

She tugged hard on his hand and Severo Laris’ eyes turned scarlet at the corners, the lump in his throat rolled hard, emotions rolled down his chest like waves of shock.

Severo Laris took her wrist between his and slowly withdrew his fingers from her palm.

“Lita, I can’t get you out. You have to find the contradiction between illusion and reality.”

Severo Laris’ cell phone rang and the caller ID read Albarran Bail.

Severo Laris did not answer, knowing that Albarran Bail was reminding him that visiting hours were over.

Paula Rouco grabbed his hand and pulled him, “Severo … don’t go …. Really … really … I miss you so much.”

Severo Laris had tears welling up in his eyes, but a loving smile played on his lips, “I miss you too, all the time, but we have to get through this.”This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

Severo Laris took a deep breath and looked at the wedding ring on his slender ring finger, caressing it for a few moments.

And then, once again, he pushed her small, wrapped hands away and stood up to leave, “Lita, you need to behave and take your medicine.”

Paula Rouco watched his back as he left, choking back a sob with reddened eyes, “Severo…. Severo…”

Severo Laris left the room without looking back.

Paula Rouco tried several times to get up from the hospital bed, but her whole body was weak and she wanted to get up and chase after him, but there was no way.

Severo Laris was outside the room, his gaze was deep and painful as he watched the people crying inside, heartbroken, pained, bitter … all emotions intertwined and sad beyond words.

Paula Rouco was sitting alone in the living room, staring listlessly at the Hans Christian Andersen storybook, tears encased in it.

When she slowly looked up, she saw the little beanstalk sitting in the corner of the room.

The little Beanstalk was also looking at her.

Paula Rouco didn’t know how to face her.

“I can see … see you if … Severo … Severo doesn’t take me home …”

Why.

Paula Rouco is helpless and bewildered.

Sitting in a corner with an innocent look on his face, the little beaner asked, “Sister Paulita, are you throwing me out?”

“I … don’t know.”

She can’t bear to push the little bean away, but she wants Severo Laris to take her away from this place.