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”

necessarily want to clash with these folks, but she couldn’t stand their short sighted

Elio. “Sir, will you be my

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

expect Elio to side with the young

led everyone to the balcony and started treating the old

is she

you have any other options at this point?”

her last legs and he was out of options.

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

into a panic, “Mom!!”

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 room. Elia glanced at the young woman next to

the bedside slowly returned to normal. Overwhelmed with joy, Wylle was about to thank Astrid, but she made a shushing gesture at him. She then calmly wiped the sweat from

said that earlier because they were certain

kneel to a young girl? Even if