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?“:

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 Astrid’s ear. Astrid blushed and

he think she’s one of those naive

How naive.

into the box, “Mr Lampard, this gift

Elio: “…”

it out for you.

there was a voice message

knew he was

I’ll borrow it for now. I’ll return to you after the

bit sour. Did he really have no place in Astrid’s heart?

and was about to change when she remembered something. She turned around and asked Elio seriously, “Mr Lampard, did you send someone

in sync, I naturally

laughed coldly, “Man’s mouth is as deceitful

and Elio thought back to the