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

would give her all the love she deserves…

of Star and then tossed her

was tired from crying, and fell asleep on the bed with Roman in his arms. The next day, they were woken up

a foul

sleepy Roman and rushed towards the door barefoot, only to see Elio walking out from the kitchen… Elio

looked a total mess.

there was no fire, and then asked the man in front

her question, Elio simply said, “Your microwave’s a piece of junk,

knowledge that raw eggs explode in

Common knowledge?

even more

to make breakfast for Astrid to impress her.

breakfast was not made, and the kitchen was blown up. That was…

the kitchen, discovering two lumps of charred something in the pan emitting black smoke,

dirty

did this, she would