hapter 36

Anyone with half a brain can see that Elio’s got a thing for Astrid. If Fannie pissed him off with her nonsense, she could be dead meat!

“Sorry, Mr. Lampard, I’m so sorry…” Paula apologized repeatedly, then forcibly dragged Fannie out of the lounge.

The lounge got quiet, and the atmosphere turned a bit weird.

This was the first time Astrid had seen Elio angry, and it was just as scary as the rumors had made it out to be.

Elio turned around and saw Astrid staring at him, dumbstruck. He immediately softened his tone, “Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you.”

“No, no, I wasn’t scared.” Thinking about Elio’s words to Fannie, Astrid felt a bit uncomfortable. She pointed at the gift box in front of her, Is this for me?”

opened the lid of the box, asking softly,

and gave a small smirk, “Looks nice, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch, Mr. Lampard. What’s your angle?” “Obviously… I like you,” Elio whispered in

she’s one of those

How naive.

the gift back into the box, “Mr Lampard, this

Elio: “…”

was Roman who picked it out for you. He even

hearing this, Astrid immediately checked her WhatsApp. Sure enough, there was a voice message from Roman:

choppy, but Astrid knew he

the

have no place in Astrid’s heart? He had to use Roman’s name to

gift from the pile in the room and was about to change when she remembered something. She turned around and asked Elio seriously,

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