Love in the Limelight

Chapter 226

Sure, he had some clout, but it wasn’t worth a hill of beans compared to Elio.

He’d heard about Elio’s tricks and now he was kicking himself, “Mr. Elio. Mr. Elio! It’s a misunderstanding! It’s all just a misunderstanding. I was just joking around with Ms. Irvine. I was only joking, I swear. I meant no disrespect!”

At this point, Lambert was groveling at Elio’s feet and was a picture of total humiliation.

Seeing Elio unmoved, Lambert turned to Astrid for support, but she quickly stepped away, “Don’t kneel to me; it makes me sick.”

Elio glanced at the nonchalant Astrid and softly asked, “You alright?”

“Do I look like I’m in trouble? Relax, I’m fine.” Astrid gave Elio a small smile, “By the way, it’s almost time for my ‘show; let’s move to another place to continue my makeup; you can deal with this guy.”

“Sure.” Elio’s gentle tone when speaking to Astrid was so unexpected that it nearly knocked Carla’s socks off.

“Carla, let’s go.” Astrid called out to Carla at the door, and Carla finally snapped back to reality and scurried out with her makeup box.

Elio looked down at Lambert on the floor like he was a bug, “Carson, you know what to do, right?”

worry, I got

witless, “I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.

apologizing to me; you should apologize to the girls you’ve hurt.”

in

and by the time Astrid was done, the rumor mill was in

crumbled overnight, and someone even dug up

the car, Astrid was reading the news and couldn’t help but sigh, “That’s why you shouldn’t build up a fake image, because when

toast.”

scream for help when he entered the dressing room?”

“I could handle it myself; there was no

way, why did

hesitated, “Today is my birthday; I wanted to have

her hands tightly and quickly changed the subject, “How did you know I would agree to have dinner with

in your sleep and grind your teeth, and your goddess image

“You’re shameless.”

“I’m flattered.”

had no