Love in the Limelight Novel

Chapter 23

Elios sudden proximity took Astrid by surprise

His breath invaded her personal space, and Astrid stood rigid, feeling awkward

But Elio just stood there in the same pose, not saying a word. His brow furrowed at the memory of Astrid playing cards with Colton. She was always anxious around him, but she could laugh so freely in front of Colton Did she hate him being near that much? “Why do you hate me so much?” Ello suddenly asked.

Astrid was taken aback, she hadn’t expected Ello to ask this question. She mumbled, “I don’t hate you. Who said I hate you?”

Elio heard her perfunctory response and his tone became colder, “Then go home with me.”

Astrid blurted out, “No!”

left her mouth, she felt a chill envelop her and quickly explained, “I’ve already arranged for a place with an agent. We don’t have any special relationship, it’s not appropriate for me to stay at your

kind of relationship do you think is appropriate?” Elio’s eyebrows twitched, “Boyfriend and girlfriend? Husband and wife? If we need a relationship to live together, we can go

he thinking? He was fine during the day, so why had he become so weird all of a sudden? “Is this elevator too slow? Why hasn’t it

realized that they hadn’t pressed the ground floor

appeared at the

this moment, Astrid felt like he was her savior. She greeted Colton

a sigh of relief, thinking that since someone had entered, Ello would let her go.

a long

movement made Elio frown. Since when did she

text message from her father, “Star, no matter what you say, I’m not calling off the bodyguards this time. If it wasn’t for Sandra raising you for eighteen years, I could have made her regret ever being born!”

before, okay?” Half a year ago, when she first returned to Sunhaven, her dad had arranged dozens of bodyguards for

deliberate because she needed to get close to Colton to make him cancel the engagement. Otherwise, If this issue wasn’t resolved, Sandra would