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?”

and opened the lid of the box, asking softly, “Hmm,

gave a small smirk, “Looks nice, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch, Mr. Lampard. What’s your angle?”

Did he think she’s one

How naive.

the gift back into the box, “Mr

Elio: “…”

“It was Roman who picked it out for you. He even sent

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

knew he

it was Roman’s choice. I knew your taste couldn’t be that good. Since Roman picked it out, I’ll borrow it for now. I’ll return to you after the press conference.” Astrid picked up the

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

She turned

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