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?“:

box 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 Astrid’s ear. Astrid blushed and pushed him

she’s one of those naive girls who would fall for sweet nothings?

How naive.

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

Elio: “…”

picked it out for you. He

Sure enough, there was a voice message

but Astrid knew he was trying his

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,

have no place in Astrid’s heart? He had to use Roman’s name to give a gift, how

she remembered something. She turned around and asked Elio seriously, “Mr

in sync, I naturally know what you need.”

mouth is as deceitful as

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