Love in the Limelight

Chapter 22

“Ding‘ The elevator door opened, and Ello hurried out, quickly found room 2109, and gave it a few hard kicks

“Bang, bang, bang!” After a series of loud noises, the door opened

He immediately clenched his fists

But when he saw what the two people in the room were doing, he was stunned.

“Mr Lampard? What are you doing here?” Astrid looked at the man who had suddenly appeared in front of her, then glanced at the damaged door, looking puzzled. Elio looked into her perplexed eyes and said casually, “Just passing by

Colton said. “Your turn to play”

Astrid turned her head to look at Colton, a lollipop in her mouth, and she smugly placed down her hand: “Royal flush! You lose, pay up!”

She happily thumped the table and extended her hand to Colton, smiling.

“All yours, I’m wiped out again. You’re mally good!‘ Colton pushed all the money in front of him to Astrid and continued clapping.

her eyes squinted from smiling so much.

this moment that Elio suddenly snapped back to reality.

He knew Colton was as smart as a five–year–old. What could a child

know when, but this girl’s every move was unconsciously

intense, even he himself didn’t understand why this girl

could keep calm and composed but

that moment he even found the laughing and joking scene in front of him to be quite

for a game? It’s pretty boring with just the two of us Elio looked at the two seated opposite him and slowly said, “Alright.”

He actually agreed?

asking casually and hadn’t

like the

a while, and Astrid clearly

stopped talking and didn’t even dare to raise his head.

else to do. You two continue playing.” After a round, Astrid got up and made her

her clothes, “Will we meet again?” “No.” Elio said coldly, devoid of any sort of

pupils contracted slightly. He then let go

by Elio’s unexpected speech. She looked at him in surprise. What was

was he assuming authority over her

down on him for not being smart, but because she didn’t want to be used by Sandra as a tool. “We’ll

obediently nodded, “I