Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

After Paula Rouco handed the phone back to Albarran Bail, she sat up in the hospital bed and looked again at the little beanstalk in the corner.

The little bean sprout sat pitifully in the corner, its clear, watery eyes staring at her.

Paula Rouco got up from the bed and slowly approached it, crouching down, hugging her knees and looking up at the little bean sprout as if they were two wounded children.

The little bean sprout flattened her little mouth and asked quietly, “Sister Paulita, are you really going to throw me out?”

Paula Rouco reached out and touched the little bean sprout’s little head and asked, “Little bean sprout, what exactly is your mother’s name…?”

The little bean sprout looked at her innocently, somewhat puzzled, “My mommy…. is my mommy, and I don’t know her name, but my mommy, she’s beautiful.”

Paula Rouco said, “But no child would not know his mother’s name.”

The little bean sprout reached up to her little mouth and said carefully, “But the little bean sprout doesn’t know, is the little bean sprout wrong?”.

Paula Rouco, with tears in her eyes, shook her head, “You’re right, said Dr. Bail, I really am his mother.”

“Really, Sister Paulita?”

Paula Rouco asked, “Can you tell me the exact address of your house?”

“La Villa Rouco Building 12, 601, Sister Paulita, you asked me that question.”

From the pocket of her hospital gown, Paula Rouco pulled out a photograph that Rufio had given her when he and Susana came to visit her in the hospital.

The photo showed the family living in 601, building 12 of La Villa Rouco.

Paula Rouco’s eyes were slightly red-rimmed and her voice trembled as she asked, “But … why is it that the person living in 601 of building … 12 of La Villa Rouco is not you? ”

The little bean sprout pursed his little lips and said nothing, just looked at her helplessly.

“Little Beanstalk … you … you’re a figment of my imagination, aren’t you?”

Little Beanstalk also burst into tears, “Why did Sister Paulita say that, she doesn’t like Little Beanstalk any more?”

“Dr. Bail can’t see you, Severo can’t see you, only I can see you.”

Little Beanstalk: “I do not know … I don’t know why Dr. Bail and Brother Severo can’t see me.”

Paula Rouco: “This is a hospital, I’m in a hospital, which even Severo can’t enter just like that, how did you get in here, little beaner?”

And, it’s whenever and wherever, the little bean sprout will be in the room.

The little bean sprout was speechless and slow to give an answer.

Paula Rouco: “Little Beanstalk, your mother, where does she work?”

Little Beanstalk: “I don’t know.”

Paula Rouco: “Why … you came so long to La Ciudad Santa to look for me and your mother didn’t look for you to come home? Isn’t it … she was worried about you?”

With tears streaming down her face, the little bean shook her head, unable to give an answer.

…

Albarran Bail is in the office thinking about Paula Rouco’s treatment plan and specific adjustments to her medication.

Suddenly, a paramedic rushed in.

Albarran Bail looked at him with a frown, “What’s the matter, so much panic.”

“Dr. Bail, the … Paula Rouco, seems to have realized that the little bean is her fantasy child and is now “interrogating” the little bean in the room. ”

Albarran Bail’s eyes lit up and he hurried over.

Albarran Bail stood outside the room and watched the interior for a long time.

A couple of doctors asked half-heartedly, “Is Paula Rouco as if she is really aware that she is hallucinating now?”

Albarran Bail breathed a sigh of relief, “After all this time, the treatment was not in vain.”

And later, Albarran Bail called Paula Rouco’s guardian and then Severo Laris.

Upon hearing the news, Severo Laris rushed to the hospital.

The moment he opened the room, Paula Rouco saw him and, unable to hold back her sobs, burst into tears.

It was a moment of emotion, joy and sadness? all mixed together.

Severo Laris approached her and wrapped her in an embrace, holding her in his arms.

Paula Rouco shouts: “Severo … little … little bean sprouts don’t exist … little bean sprouts really don’t exist…”

Severo Laris patted her on the shoulder, corners of his eyes slightly reddened, voice excited and trembling, “Lita, you did it, very clever.”

Paula Rouco buried herself in his arms and cried for a long, long time.

…

In the evening, Severo Laris bought a small children’s school bag and gave it to Paula Rouco.

Severo Laris stood in the doorway of the room, reached out and stroked her little head and said softly, “Say goodbye to the little bean.”

Paula Rouco picked up her backpack and turned to enter the room.

In the living room, only Paula Rouco and the little beanstalker were crouched in a corner.NôvelDrama.Org © content.

Paula Rouco looks at her sweetly and walks over to the little bean with her school bag.

Little Bean Sprout hugged herself and asked in a resigned voice, “Sister Paulita, do you have to send me away? Isn’t it good to let Little Bean Sprout stay with Sister Paulita?”

Dr. Bail said that if it weren’t for you, I might not be alive now, because seven years ago, when I broke up with Severo over a misunderstanding and lost our son, I was too upset, and if you hadn’t taken on so much for me, if I hadn’t gotten my inner regrets and guilt out by protecting you If you hadn’t taken on so much for me, if I hadn’t been able to get my inner regrets and guilt out by protecting you, I probably, long ago, wouldn’t have been able to sustain myself.”

Little Bean: “Sister Paulita, you’re right, you don’t have to blame yourself.”

“That’s what Severo said. Severo also said that you, little beaner, are actually the child he and I lost seven years ago, and that Severo called that child Ramo Laris. ”

The little bean nibbled her little mouth, “Does Brother Severo love that child, too?”

Paula Rouco cried and laughed and said firmly, “Love, he loved that child, he loved that child as much as I did. Severo never abandoned me or that child.”

Paula Rouco reached out, stroked the little bean sprout’s head and said, “So the little bean sprout is not an abandoned child either, what happens is that daddy … didn’t know before … didn’t know that mom had a little bean sprout, and if dad had known about the existence of the little bean sprout, dad would have been ecstatic and would have treated the little bean sprout as a precious treasure.”

Tears rolled down the little bean sprout’s face, “Sister Paulita, do you really love Brother Severo?”

Paula Rouco nodded, “Well, lots of love. Severo said that when I got out of the hospital, he would marry me.”

“Did the presence of the little bean sprouts affect Sister Paulita and Brother Severo being together?”

Paula Rouco: “Brother Severo said it could wait, but Sister Paulita, she didn’t want me to wait anymore, it took so, so much for us to get back together.”

Little Beanstalk squashed her little mouth and cried, “Will Sister Paulita be happier with Little Beanstalk gone?”

Paula Rouco looked at her, “When the little beanstalk sprouts are happy, Sister Paulita becomes happy.”

Paula Rouco puts the pink Peppa Pig school bag in her hand and gives it to the little bean sprout on her back.

Paula Rouco smiled and said, “This is the school bag that Severo’s brother bought you. She knew that Paulita’s sister also liked the Piggy when she was little, so she figured the Little Bean Sprout must also like the Piggy backpack. Do you like it, Little Bean Sprout?”

Little Bean Sprout smiled a tiny, teary smile at her, “I love it.”

Paula Rouco said, “In the future, don’t always get carried away with the idea that the little bean sprout’s daddy, really loves the little bean sprout.”

The little beaner nodded and reached up to wipe Paula Rouco’s eyes too, choking back a sob, “Sister Paulita too, be happy for sure.”

“Well, I will.”

“Sister Paulita, in the future, if I feel very lonely, can I come to see Sister Paulita once in a while? Only once in a while.”

Paula Rouco laughed, “Yes.”

With her little backpack on her back, the little bean slowly walked to the door of the room, turning around again and waving a little hand at Paula Rouco.

“Sister Paulita, the little bean sprout has to go, you must be happy, you are happy so the little bean sprout will be relieved. sister Paulita, goodbye.”

Paula Rouco stood there, watching her, smiling and waving, as she had done when she first met her.

“See you later, little bean sprout.”

…

Severo Laris stood outside the room and witnessed all the goodbyes.

Pushing open the door, he walked over to the hospital bed and hugged Paula Rouco.

“Severo… little beaner gone… little beaner gone….”

Paula Rouco leaned against his waist and cried for a long, long time.

Severo Laris patted her back, smiled with red-rimmed eyes and said, “From now on, I will replace the little bean sprout and be your tree hole, listening to all your unhappiness and sadness.”