Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

In the afternoon, Severo Laris drove Paula Rouco to the cemetery.

As they got out of the car, Paula Rouco was still a little confused, “What’s the point of coming to the cemetery?”

Severo Laris smiled slightly and slipped his arm around her shoulders as he went inside, “I’m taking you to meet an old friend.”

The grounds, the cemetery, was a feng shui place with mountains, water, wind and trees that he had Rufio personally encounter when he returned to his country.

Like a paradise.

This area, although it is a cemetery of a famous family, Severo Laris, who after all loved his children with Paula Rouco, bought a whole plot in the cemetery especially for the cemetery, where only Ramo Laris is buried.

He walks up to a large, centuries-old weeping willow tree with a grave.

The tombstone reads: “Tomb of Ramo Laris”.

Father: Severo Laris.

Mother: Paula Rouco.

Paula Rouco’s eyes trembled at the sight of Ramo Laris’ grave and she froze.

Severo Laris took the bouquet of flowers in his hands, placed it in front of the grave and bent down in front of it, tenderly picking up the few leaves that had fallen from the grave.

“When I returned home, I asked Rufio to look for this plot of land, when I came to see it, I thought it was a beautiful mountain and a nice setting, so I got a clothing mound for my son.”

“The name, Ramo Laris, was given to me, my last name, his word. I don’t know if you like it.”

“I had just come home, we hadn’t reconciled, you didn’t even want to see me, and I couldn’t talk about it, so I took it upon myself to name the baby.”

With tears welling up in her eyes, Paula Rouco bends down and touches her hand to Ramo Laris’ headstone, but with a slight smile on her lips.

She said, “The name Ramo Laris … … it’s great. I like it a lot.”

Severo Laris looked fondly at the soft white side of her face and smiled slightly, “As long as you like it.”

Severo Laris added, “Albarran Bail said you conjured the little bean sprout for the loss of Ramo Laris seven years ago. lita, what I want you to know is that I never abandoned you and Ramo Laris, you were pregnant and I didn’t know it at the time until you fell down the stairs and I found out you had miscarried And at that moment, I felt my world fall apart.”

“There are a lot of apologies, but those apologies I’d rather spend the rest of my life giving back and making up for.”

Severo Laris squeezed her small hand and drew her into his arms.

Paula Rouco, buried in his chest, also reached out and wrapped her arms around his slender, strong waist.

Severo Laris and Paula Rouco spent the entire afternoon with Ramo Laris on the cemetery green.

Only at dusk did the two of them walk down the hill together, holding hands.Belonging to NôvelDrama.Org.

Salvino’s car, waiting at the bottom of the hill.

On this side of the cemetery, there is no way to get up the hill by car, and there is no cable car, and although it is not high, there are quite a few steps to climb.

Severo Laris had no intention of letting Paula Rouco go down the hill.

Squatting down in front of her, he patted her on the shoulder, “Climb up, I’ll give you a lift.”

Paula Rouco is a sluggard and gets on her back without a second thought.

After being ill, her strength and stamina were quite poor.

Paula Rouco leaned over his shoulder, looked at his handsome face and said, “You used to carry me like this when … you were going to Mount Pullo ….”

Severo Laris laughs, “When we have time later, we’ll hike Mt. Pullo.”

Seven years ago, he knelt before Buddha and made a wish, and now it was time to return it.

Paula Rouco frowned, “No.”

Severo Laris froze slightly, “What’s the matter?”

Paula Rouco said, “At that time … that old monk sweeping the floor … he was so hateful. He was cursing us … if … if he hadn’t … maybe we wouldn’t have been separated before.”

Severus Laris laughed and said to him with a slight sidelong glance, “Maybe that old floor-sweeping monk is no longer in the temple, and if he is, I’ll have even more to tell him.”

“What’s the theory with him…?”

“Theorize why we got back together if we weren’t right for each other.”

Paula Rouco smiled, “So what if…. What if he’s still talking trash?”

Severo Laris raised an eyebrow, “Then knock his temple down.”

Paula Rouco: “Tear down the temple … even if … I can throw him out of the temple … or … make him kneel before the Buddha … and confess that he was wrong.”

Severo Laris was amused, but responded warmly, “Well, have it your way.”

Paula Rouco stared at him and asked, “Severo … I still don’t know … what did you wish for then?”.

Severo Laris paused in his pacing, and then, with a sidelong glance, said solemnly, “Kneeling before Buddha, I said then that I hoped that the person beside me at that moment would be the one to lie on my pillow in the millions of nights to come, and that there would be no separation from life but in death.”

Paula Rouco watched his concentrated, serious gaze, momentarily stunned, and then, more intimately, she hugged him by the neck.

She said, “But you still left me … For seven years. You lied to the Buddha.”

Severo Laris: “Then let them punish me, let them punish me just for being with Paula Rouco for the rest of my life. ”

“Say … say it reluctantly.”

He speaks as if there is a lot of resentment.

Severo Laris: “I am aggrieved for lying to Buddha about being with you, Buddha always treats me very badly, always gives me what I don’t like, family is like this, father is like this, wife’s words … If Buddha knew that I feel wronged by being with you, he would have made me stay with you for the rest of my life. Maybe he would even punish me to stay with you for the next life and the next. Buddha loves to tease me and take away what I like, so I have to act like I don’t like you so much in front of Buddha.”

Paula Rouco laughed and poked him in the face with her onion-white fingers, “What if Buddha finds out … that you have lied to him … and he has a fit?”.

“Do whatever you want as long as you are not taken away from me. But if I were to take you away from me again…”

Severo Laris pondered for a moment and said decisively, “I will kill the gods and goddesses.”

Paula Rouco arched into his neck and rested her reassuring little head on his shoulder.

She lay on her back, incredibly comfortable, on the way down, about to fall asleep.

Amidst the confusion, he mumbled the question, “Severo Laris…”

“Hmm?”

“What else do you have in mind … That I don’t know?”

Severo Laris laughed as he charged her, “That’s a lot.”

“You cheat on your wife … this is not good.”

Severo Laris: “Seven years ago, after our breakup, I was depressed for a long time and when I heard you were going to Philadelphia to study at Curtis College, I asked Rufio about your departure time and rushed to the airport in The Holy City to see you from afar in the crowd, but I was in a hurry and still missed it.”

“What else?”

“Not long after you left for Curtis College, I went to Harvard for my doctorate, something I hadn’t planned to do, but I wanted to be near you, so I left.”

Paula Rouco’s eyes filled with tears and she reached up to wipe them away.

“Is there more?”

Severo Laris laughs, “And I kept a lot of little things from you, like keeping many of your photos private and looking at them every night for the seven years we were apart before I could sleep.”

Paula Rouco: “Severo Laris.”

“Hmm.”

“Turn your head.”

Severo Laris compensated by turning his head.

Paula Rouco leaned toward him and kissed his thin lips, nibbling them a couple of times with a dexterity that left him purple.

The sunset was warm as it enveloped them.