Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

The black Bugatti, with a chop, came to a stop at the edge of the road.Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.

Nico’s eyes bore into Micaela: “Speak. What do you want to tell me from your heart?”.

Micaela took a deep breath and finally found the courage to say, “I know the person I chose to push away with my own hands is not fit to be missed again in this life. But I used to think that if I could be a match for you, maybe this relationship would be stronger and longer lasting.”

Nico said without emotion, “So not a single call.”

Micaela knows she has really gone too far.

“I’m sorry. In Los Angeles, I missed you every day too. I didn’t see you again, I didn’t even call you on the phone, because I was afraid that if I got in touch with you, I wouldn’t be able to resist dropping everything to come and see you. In that case, all efforts would be half ruined. But the fault is mine for not giving you enough security in this relationship.”

“It’s not that the relationship is bad, it’s that I’m bad.”

Micaela said again and again that it was her fault, and the tears that had stopped, warmed her eyes again.

“For my birthday last year, I made a wish, do you want to know?” She asked.

Nico tugged at the corners of his lips and said nonchalantly, “What’s none of my business, I don’t want to hear about it.”

People who are used to being hurt always expect something and then habitually pretend to be indifferent as a way of protecting themselves.

Inside the dimly lit car, Micaela Savanna’s loving gaze looked at him and said, “My wish is simple, to fall in love until the wedding, and by that I mean me and you.”

Nico’s gaze straightened and his heartbeat was violent.

In all the years he had lived, the three strongest heartbeats of his life so far were probably when he ran after Carlita’s car as a child, when he did misty with Micaela, and now when Micaela was telling him this birthday wish.

“Six years, it’s taken me six years to realize that my right to you turned out to have been taken for granted all along, and I always took it for granted that you would wait for me no matter how long I was away, probably because the heart was set.”

“Nico, if you want, I will slowly make up for this deficit every day that follows, along with the security you want. I’ve never had to prove to anyone that I love you, I’ll let you really feel it for yourself.”

She said she loved him for that.

Nico’s thoughts, stunned for a moment.

Micaela added, “Even if you don’t give me an answer now, it doesn’t matter, I’ll keep pursuing you until you’re willing to talk to me. Before, I was the one who left for a long time without moving, but now, you can leave me too, but I will come to you. I will keep chasing you until you care about me. Once upon a time, the one who moved and left for a long time was me, and now, you can also leave me, but I will come to you. We are equal.”

Nico was silent for a long, long time and when he spoke, he frowned and simply said, “Go to the hospital, if you don’t go to the hospital your brain is going to burn.

Start the car, step on the gas and move in one fluid motion.

It was as if he had ignored what Micaela had just said.

When we arrived at the hospital, Nico checked in, saw the doctor, they took his temperature, the fever was low, no big deal, no water to hold, the doctor prescribed some anti-flu and anti-inflammatory pills.

As they left the hospital to the subway garage and got into the car, Nico was about to drive away when Micaela stared at him for a moment and said, “I have a fever, but I wasn’t talking nonsense, I meant it.”

Nico didn’t look at her, the movement to start the car stopped just a little, but he didn’t stop, saying, “Micaela, you don’t have to pity me because I waited for you for two years, pity, to me, Nico, never mattered.”

Micaela stared at him, “I don’t pity you, I just want to marry you…”.

The delicate tone of her voice immediately struck Nico’s heart.