Love in the Limelight

Chapter 21

The gardens of the Sunset Holiday Hotel were done up like a dreamy, romantic wonderland. You’d walk along the quiet lakeside path and see twinkling lights scattered about like shooting stars. From afar, the garden locked as if a galaxy of stars had spilled onto it.

The whole visual effect created a dreamlike atmosphere, making you feel like you’ve stepped into a fantasy world.

Lucinda was all dolled up, and her haughty demeanor resembled a peacock spreading its feathers. No matter who greeted her, shed respond with icy indifference.

Growing up, Lucinda was forever living in Astrid’s shadow

Astrid was lauded as a genius by the entire school. She was rarely in school, often leaving shortly after each semester began, only returning for the final exams. And yet, she always managed to top the class in those exams

Not only was she academically brilliant, but she was also stunningly beautiful and popular. Everyone would praise Astrid like she fortune

Wasn’t that just a polite way of saying she wasn’t pretty?

was pretty? She was still marrying a complete

and romantic engagement party then?

idiot, that’s a fact

but when they saw Lucinda, they’d say

was trying to chat you up and you were so cold to him!” Lucinda rolled her eyes, “Mom, you

Always have a backup plan, Sandra, a shrewd woman, said. If it weren’t for

here!” Suddenly, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted. Everyone’s

man who had appeared in her dreams countless times, Lucinda

seen Elio in the news, this

‘Oh my God, Mr. Lampard is so handsome! He’s even more charming in person than in photos!” “He’s like the perfect man, right out of a legend. His physique, his features…

I want to

chattering stopped abruptly as Ello

from him was too strong, one look

Astrid in sight, Elio’s gaze turned even colder and more determined. His sharp, reminiscent of a

phone, just in time to receive a message from Carson: Location confirmed, hotel top floor, room 2109.