Love in the Limelight

Chapter 36

Anyone with half a brain can see that Elio’s got a thing for Astrid. If Fannie pissed him off with her nonsense, she could be dead meat!

“Sorry, Mr. Lampard, I’m so sorry…” Paula apologized repeatedly, then forcibly dragged Fannie out of the lounge.

The lounge got quiet, and the atmosphere turned a bit weird.

This was the first time Astrid had seen Elio angry, and it was just as scary as the rumors had made it out to be.

Elio turned around and saw Astrid staring at him, dumbstruck. He immediately softened his tone, “Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you.”

“No, no, I wasn’t scared.” Thinking about Elio’s words to Fannie, Astrid felt a bit uncomfortable. She pointed at the gift box in front of her, Is this for me?”

Elio nodded and opened the lid of the box, asking softly, “Hmm, do you like it?“:

and gave a small smirk, “Looks nice, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch, Mr. Lampard. What’s your angle?” “Obviously… I like you,” Elio whispered in

he think she’s one

How naive.

back into the box, “Mr Lampard, this gift is too expensive. I

Elio: “…”

who picked it out for you. He even sent you a WhatsApp.”

Sure enough, there was a voice message from

knew he was trying his

taste couldn’t be that good. Since Roman picked it out, I’ll borrow it for now. I’ll return to you after the press conference.” Astrid picked up the gift and hugged it, immediately sending Roman a voice message: Thank you, Roman. I love the

Astrid’s heart? He had to use Roman’s name to give a

pile in the room and was about to change when she remembered something. She turned around and asked Elio seriously, “Mr

naturally know what

“Man’s mouth is as deceitful as

dressing room door closed, and Elio thought back to the way Astrid had rolled her eyes at him,