Chapter 42

“Are you awake now?” Elio looked down at the woman in his arms, her cheeks rosy as she stared back at him.

She looked like a kitten just waking up from a nap, lazy and captivating.

Astrid: “Yeah… Um, could you put me down?”

Elio set Astrid down and Roman instantly rushed over, wrapping his arms around Astrid’s thighs and shooting Elio a disapproving look.

They had reached the elevator. Astrid glanced at the elevator and then back at Elio, smiling. “Mr Lampard, I’m home now. Roman’s sleeping with me tonight. I can look after him all day tomorrow. You can come to pick him up tomorrow night.”

Roman quickly nodded in agreement.

Elio wasn’t too pleased. She was calling him Mr Lampard again. Had she forgotten everything he’d told her?

to be

a few times, covering his mouth with his hand. “…I’m suddenly not feeling so well. Could I rest at

his dad’s ridiculous excuse, said disdainfully: “Shameless.”

Elio: “…”

have something urgent

that, Carson sped off in his car.

“Mr Lampard, you drove here yourself, didn’t

happens to me, would you take responsibility, Ms Irvine?”

Astrid: “…”

arrived and Elio promptly followed Astrid in..

Elio a serious look. “Mr Lampard, Fannie told me everything. It’s kind of

last sentence when he came down from upstairs. He had no idea that Fannie had lied to Astrid about them being a couple. Hearing Astrid’s words now, he frowned in displeasure. “I don’t have

in a

Roman’s mother. That was an accident. I’m single and unmarried.

the earnest look in his eyes, Astrid didn’t quite know what to say… Could

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