Love in the Limelight

Chapter 8

“Can anyone just claim they re Aster? Rumor has it that Aster is a man in his thirties You, are a young girl How dare you pretend to be him? What’s your endgame?”

Astrid glanced at the man before her, a tad annoyed “I can cure her”

“Cure her?” The experts present burst out in laughter “We’re the top dogs in the medical field if we cant treat her how can you?”

Another expert chimed in “Looking at your age, you’re probably a Uni student still, right? You’m just here to catch the eye of the rich bloke Wylie, hoping to bag yourself a wealthy hubby. Girl, get lost. This ain’t your playground”

“Scram before you make a fool of yourself”

you actually manage to cure the old lady, we’ll bow down to you!”

“Bow down and hail me queen, you mean?” Astrid raised an eyebrow, “Deal”

clash with these folks, but she couldn’t

Elio. “Sir, will you be my witness?”

up to, but he too was fed up with

didn’t expect Elio to side with the young girl

to the balcony and started

she really

this point?” Ello

her last legs and he was out

the old woman. She punctured many of the old lady’s acupuncture points with silver needles and

into a panic,

balcony trailing behind. Just when everyone thought the old lady had passed. A faint cough emanated from the bed. It was very faint, but it silenced the entire

a shushing gesture at him.

only said that earlier because they were certain the old lady couldn’t be cured!

How could they kneel to a young girl? Even if the person in front of them was