Love in the Limelight

Chapter 42

“Are you awake now?” Elio looked down at the woman in his arms, her cheeks rosy as she stared back at him.

She looked like a kitten just waking up from a nap, lazy and captivating.

Astrid: “Yeah… Um, could you put me down?”

Elio set Astrid down and Roman instantly rushed over, wrapping his arms around Astrid’s thighs and shooting Elio a disapproving look.

They had reached the elevator. Astrid glanced at the elevator and then back at Elio, smiling. “Mr Lampard, I’m home now. Roman’s sleeping with me tonight. I can look after him all day tomorrow. You can come to pick him up tomorrow night.”

Roman quickly nodded in agreement.

Elio wasn’t too pleased. She was calling him Mr Lampard again. Had she forgotten everything he’d told her?

going to be

mouth with his hand. “…I’m suddenly not feeling so well. Could I rest at Ms Irvine’s place?” Astrid was taken aback. He could really come up with such an unreliable excuse?

Roman, hearing his dad’s ridiculous

Elio: “…”

Carson quickly stepped in: “Ms Irvine, I just remembered I have something urgent

off in his

you drove here yourself,

accidents. If something happens to

Astrid: “…”

arrived and Elio promptly followed

Fannie had told her earlier, Astrid gave Elio a serious look. “Mr Lampard, Fannie told me everything. It’s kind of

last sentence when he came down from upstairs. He had no idea that Fannie had lied to Astrid about them being a couple. Hearing Astrid’s words now, he frowned in displeasure.

in a secret relationship. Of course, you can’t admit it.

only had one woman in my life, Roman’s mother. That was an accident. I’m single and unmarried. Elio usually wouldn’t bother explaining,

didn’t quite know what to say… Could Fannie have

possible. After all, Fannie was known

Roman, who was clinging tightly to Astrid’s leg, was clearly on the brink