Love in the Limelight

Chapter 26

After signing the lease, Astrid and Alan sent their new address to Gracle Just as Astrid was about to hit the sack, a video call invitation popped up: Magee wants to FaceTime.

Astrid pressed accept and saw Magee’s giant nostril on the screen. “Astrid, I’m your dad”

Astrid was already used to Magee’s weird angles during video calls, so she replied somewhat speechlessly, “Of course I know you’re my dad. What’s up? If there’s nothing, I’m hanging up. I’m bushed.”

Magee “Hold on, I heard you moved to a new place I’m sending someone from the cleaning service over tomorrow.”

Astrid groaned, “No need, I‘

Before she could finish her sentence, the video shifted to a bespectacled gentleman, ‘Astrid, are you sure you don’t want me to fly over and pick you up? It’s a jungle out there, I’m worried about you. If you don’t want to fly, I can sail over”

Astrid

They’re always trying to lure her back to take over the family fortune. She won’t fall for it!

“I don’t think we should send a cleaning service to Astrid. She’s so attractive, who knows what might happen?” The voice came from Astrid’s brother, Robb Brooke, who was not in the video.

Astrid rolled her eyes. It seemed Robb and Brandon Brooke had been taken fishing by Magee again and were all sunburnt.

Astrid can’t clean herself, she’ll be knackered. Just wait, honey,

Astrid hung up

a message: “Astrid, I found out. The one who’s been messing with you is Fannie’s dad Wes Santos. What’s up with this big shot director? Why is he targeting you?‘ Astrid scoffed, “Don’t

really scary. He evaded

issues, but

evidence and leak it

it? Shouldn’t we report it to the tax office?”

make a difference

arrange it right

to set her up? Ha.

next afternoon, Astrid quit her

up on the Internet and the relevant departments started

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall. He’s screwed this time. Wonder who leaked

at Fannie. When her dad was not in trouble, she couldn’t stop mentioning him. Now that

in times of crisis, even

news broke out, Gracle hadn’t stopped badmouthing. Astrid

out of the elevator, Astrid saw an uninvited guest by

dad was a huge Game of Thrones fan and named his four sons

expected her dad to send him

of them. He was about 6 feet tall, very