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?“:

smirk, “Looks nice, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch, Mr.

one of those naive

How naive.

gave Elio a look and tossed the gift back into the box, “Mr Lampard, this gift is too expensive.

Elio: “…”

Roman who picked it out for you. He even sent you

Astrid immediately checked her WhatsApp. Sure enough, there was a voice message from Roman: Hope you

was choppy, but Astrid knew he

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 gift you picked out. Love

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

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

“We’re in sync, I naturally know what you need.”

mouth is as deceitful

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