Deep love: insatiable lover

-Mrs Mercedes.

Melina greeted Mercedes politely, but with little respect in her eyes.

Philip wasn’t here, so he didn’t have to pretend to be friendly. He wouldn’t be here, let alone look for Mercedes, if it wasn’t to find out about his father’s situation.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

Seeing Mercedes only made Melina feel disgusted.

Mercedes said nothing, and just nodded her head. She was tired and didn’t have the energy to say much to Melina, nor did she want to argue with her.

Seeing Mercedes leave, Melina cursed in her heart, but made a worried face.

-Mrs. Mercedes, why haven’t I seen daddy? Isn’t he at home? Dad’s not well with his body, nothing’s going on out there? -asked Melina.

Mercedes stood still, unable to bear it after all.

He looked at Melina with a stern face, his eyes full of resentment.

-Melina, I think I have treated you well. You never lacked for anything that Vanessa had when she was little. You hate me, you hate Vanessa, and you’ve done what… you’ve done the shameful thing to get back at Vanessa. I don’t want to say anything about you, but Felipe is your father anyway. He was sick in the hospital and you, the daughter, didn’t know anything. Don’t you feel ashamed?

“Is the geezer still in hospital? ”

“From the looks of Mercedes, it seems that she is not in too serious a state. That’s not good, in case she woke up Vanessa would know that she had fainted because of me”.

Melina couldn’t help but be nervous. Now she couldn’t completely disassociate herself from the Cazalla family until she became pregnant with Orlando’s baby. So she had to be careful about everything.

“I have to check again, and I have to ask him how he’s doing with the vejote.”

These thoughts only took a few seconds to cross Melina’s mind, and she immediately looked panicked.

-Is Dad in the hospital? Mrs. Mercedes, which hospital is my father in? I’m going to visit him.

Mercedes saw that Melina didn’t seem to be faking it and thought that maybe she didn’t know about Felipe’s hospitalisation.

His resentment towards her diminished somewhat.

-He is in Santa Clara Hospital, go and visit him. You are also his daughter and I hope you will do your duty and take good care of your father.

“Hmph, nice words, you just don’t want your own precious daughter to suffer!”

“Why should I take care of that vejote when all the riches and reputations of the Cazalla family do not belong to me?”

-I will.

With that Melina got up and left. First she had to check on Philip’s condition and then she could plan the rest.

By the time Melina arrived at the hospital, it was already past ten o’clock at night.

Felipe was still in ICU and his condition was probably not good. It was good that he woke up later and that things could be delayed a bit.

Melina even gave a mischievous smile at the thought.

At the sight of Melina, Vanessa frowned.

-Why are you here?

-Oh, what a ridiculous thing to say. The man lying there is my father too. Why can’t I come here? -said Melina mockingly.

-Or are you worried that when dad wakes up he’ll realise how good I am and then steal the Cazalla family’s stuff?

-Shut up!

Vanessa gave Melina a cold, sharp-eyed look.

-Who are you to tell me to shut up? Vanessa, you don’t have to pretend to be noble here. Aren’t you afraid that daddy will wake up and see me? Ha ha, you think you can get away with pretending to be a filial daughter here all by yourself?

The more haughty Vanessa was, the angrier Melina became.

He looked at Vanessa with derision, his eyes full of mockery and ridicule.

-Shut up! You didn’t really come to visit dad. Don’t forget that it was you who got dad hospitalised for his first brain haemorrhage. If it wasn’t for you, dad would have been in good health all the time. How would he have become what he is now?!

-Did I cause it all? Heh, heh, it’s obviously you who is useless. You couldn’t control your husband, and you let him cheat on you, with your own sister. You couldn’t hide the truth and let it come out. What do I care? If you hadn’t blatantly molested Orlando, how would all this have happened? Vanessa, you’re the reason dad is lying in a coma! -said Melina nonchalantly, smirking and sneering.

He was happy to see Vanessa’s face getting paler and paler.

He laughed sarcastically and said nothing, but turned to look at Philip on the bed.

With her back to Vanessa, she smiled wickedly, her eyes glaring spitefully at Philip.

“Well, the geezer had better never wake up. He’ll be unconscious for ever, and no one will know why he suddenly fell down. He’d better die now, and then I want to see what Vanessa will stand on.”

Melina thought viciously. She had been selfish and greedy and had lost her instincts as a human being.

She was the devil and deserved to go to hell.

-Melina, now that you’ve seen everything, go away. I don’t want papa to wake up to see you and be angry again.

-How do you know Dad will wake up for sure?

-What do you mean?

Vanessa stood up and looked at Melina with a disgusted face.

-Do you think dad’s going to wake up? -Not that I’m talking nonsense, but the facts are there, aren’t they? Dad’s been in ICU for a day and a night, right? And look, he hasn’t woken up yet.

-How do you know Dad’s been in ICU for a day and a night? I didn’t even tell you when Dad was taken to hospital last night!

Vanessa’s eyes grew cold.

“Oops, I almost got caught by that Vanessa.”

Melina thought nervously and uneasily, her heart beating frighteningly fast. She tried desperately to conceal her unnaturalness.

-Your mother told me.

In any case, Vanessa was not there when Mercedes had told her that Felipe was still in the hospital. Even if she had lied, Vanessa would not have known.

Vanessa kept looking at her suspiciously, and Melina looked back at her defiantly, looking “open and honest” but in reality very nervous.

In the end Vanessa said nothing, but looked deeply into Melina’s eyes.

This made Melina sigh slyly, and she began to plot something in the back of her mind.

It had been almost a month since she had last made love to Orlando, and she would have to wait a few more days to confirm whether she was pregnant or not. Until then, the truth could not come out.

Philip was still in a coma, but it was possible that he would wake up at some point.

“I can’t just sit and wait for something to happen. I have to do something.”

Vanessa had no idea what was going on in Melina’s head or her malicious thoughts. All she could hope for now was that Philip would wake up sooner rather than later and get through the dangerous period.

Unfortunately, the God did not listen to Vanessa’s prayers.

Late in the evening, Felipe suddenly deteriorated in the ICU and was transferred back to the resuscitation unit.