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”

folks, but she couldn’t stand their short

to Elio. “Sir, will you be

but he too was fed up with the so–called experts. So

didn’t expect Elio to side with the young girl and exchanged surprised glances.

everyone to the balcony and started treating

she really Aster?

options at this point?” Ello asked back, and Wylie just

her last legs and he was out of options.

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

threw Wylie into a

experts on the balcony trailing behind. Just when everyone thought the old lady had passed. A faint cough emanated from

normal. Overwhelmed with joy, Wylle was about to thank Astrid, but she made a shushing gesture at

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

a young girl? Even if the person