Love in the Limelight novel Chapter 42

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?

He wasn’t going to be kicked out that easily.

After a few seconds of thought, Elio pretended to cough a few times, covering his mouth with his hand. “…I’m suddenly not feeling so well. Could I rest at Ms Irvine’s place?” Astrid was taken aback. He could really come up with such an unreliable excuse?

Half–asleep Roman, hearing his dad’s ridiculous excuse, said disdainfully: “Shameless.”

Elio: “…”

Seeing this, Carson quickly stepped in: “Ms Irvine, I just remembered I have something urgent to do. I’ll leave Mr Lampard in your care!”

With that, Carson sped off in his car.

Astrid asked, “Mr Lampard, you drove here yourself, didn’t you?”

Elio: “Drowsy driving can lead to accidents. If something happens to me, would you take responsibility, Ms Irvine?”