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”

these folks,

turned to Elio. “Sir, will you be

up to, but he too was

didn’t expect Elio to side with the young girl

and started treating the old

a nervous wreck “Elio, is she really Aster? Isn’t she too young?”

at this point?”

his mother was on her last legs and he was

with silver needles and fed her some medicine. As time ticked by

Wylie into a panic,

emanated from the bed. It was very faint, but it silenced the entire room. Elia glanced at the young woman next to him, deep

she made a shushing gesture at him. She then calmly wiped the sweat from her forehead, sat back in her chair, and said

that earlier because they were certain the

medical world. How could they kneel to a young girl? Even if the person in front of