Love in the Limelight

Chapter 47

Astrid bit her lip gently, with the image of the baby in the stroller flashing in front of her eyes again, her eyes welled up with tears.

Roman stood at the door watching Astrid bury her head in her knees and slowly walked over

Seeing Astrid upset made him feel down too

“Astrid,” Roman called gently and Astrid immediately looked up

She turned her head to see Roman staring at her with big eyes. Quickly wiping the tears off her cheeks, she asked in a low voice, “Roman, when did you get here? How’s your video game?”

Before Astrid could finish her sentence, Roman suddenly reached out his chubby little hands to hold Astrid’s face, pressing his round little face against hers and said softly, “I hate to see you upset”

Hearing Roman’s words, Astrid couldn’t hold back her tears anymore.

She hugged Roman tightly, her tears flowing incessantly, her voice nasally as she choked out, “Roman, I love you so much…”

“..love you too, I love you the most,” Roman huddled in Astrid’s arms, gently patting Astrid’s head with his chubby little hands, “Don’t cry, be a good girl…”

other, Jon

give her all

who took advantage of Star and then

in

filled with a foul smell

sleepy Roman and rushed towards the door barefoot, only to see Elio walking

looked a total

there was no fire, and then asked the man in front of her, “Mr.

simply said, “Your microwave’s a piece of junk, it

“Mr. Lampard, it’s common knowledge that raw eggs explode in the microwave.”

Common knowledge?

even more

wanted to make breakfast for Astrid to impress her.

breakfast was not made, and the kitchen

put Roman down and went into the kitchen, discovering two lumps of charred something in the pan emitting black smoke, and the stench of rotten eggs wafting

dirty and

this, she would have