Love in the Limelight

Chapter 36

Anyone with half a brain can see that Elio’s got a thing for Astrid. If Fannie pissed him off with her nonsense, she could be dead meat!

“Sorry, Mr. Lampard, I’m so sorry…” Paula apologized repeatedly, then forcibly dragged Fannie out of the lounge.

The lounge got quiet, and the atmosphere turned a bit weird.

This was the first time Astrid had seen Elio angry, and it was just as scary as the rumors had made it out to be.

Elio turned around and saw Astrid staring at him, dumbstruck. He immediately softened his tone, “Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you.”

“No, no, I wasn’t scared.” Thinking about Elio’s words to Fannie, Astrid felt a bit uncomfortable. She pointed at the gift box in front of her, Is this for me?”

Elio nodded and opened the lid of the box, asking softly, “Hmm, do you like it?“:

a small smirk, “Looks nice, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch, Mr. Lampard. What’s

think she’s one

How naive.

into the box, “Mr Lampard, this

Elio: “…”

was Roman who picked it out for you. He even sent you a WhatsApp.”

her WhatsApp. Sure enough, there

little guy’s voice was choppy, but Astrid knew he was trying his best to talk.

the press conference.” Astrid picked up the gift and

place in Astrid’s heart? He had to use Roman’s

out a decent–looking gift from the pile in the room and was about to change when she remembered something. She turned around and asked

“We’re in sync, I naturally

is as deceitful as ghost’s!”

the way Astrid had rolled her eyes at him, smiling