Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 9 A Quick Marriage

Alistair answered the phone with obvious irritation. "What?"

The caller seemed startled by his tone and responded timidly, "Hello, Alistair."

The voice on the phone wasn't Rebecca's.

"Who is this?" Alistair asked, confused.

"It's Vivienne," she replied with a light laugh. "We've met before."

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Alistair immediately placed her. Vivienne was one of Rebecca's best friends.

Rebecca had two close friends-Anne and Vivienne.

Anne was... Well, he didn't really want to talk about her. But Vivienne was different. She was cut from a completely different cloth than Rebecca and Anne. Actually, she had decent values. Alistair still remembered how she'd come to his defense once when Rebecca was giving him a hard time.

"Can I help you with something?" he asked cautiously.

If she was calling about Rebecca, he'd hang up immediately and block her number.

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It occurred to Alistair that if he really wanted to cut ties with Rebecca completely, he should change his phone number. He'd do that first thing after getting out of bed.

"Well," Vivienne said, sounding a bit embarrassed, "I was hoping you could do me a favor."

"What kind of favor?"

Nothing could have prepared Alistair for her request-she wanted him to come over and cook a meal at her place.

As it turned out, her mother, Miranda Everett, had undergone surgery to remove uterine fibroids. During a visit, Rebecca had brought some chicken noodle soup.

Miranda, who'd had no appetite since the surgery, suddenly found herself hungry again. She couldn't stop talking about it afterward, claiming it was the best chicken noodle soup she'd ever tasted and that it reminded her of childhood.

However, it was actually Alistair who made that soup himself. Though Miranda couldn't stop thinking about it, she felt too awkward to ask for it again.

Tomorrow was Miranda's birthday, and Vivienne suddenly thought of that chicken noodle soup while brainstorming unique gift ideas. Worried he might refuse, she quickly added, "Don't worry, I wouldn't expect you to do this for nothing. I'll pay you. How about 100 thousand dollars to make one dinner?"

As a wealthy heiress, Vivienne didn't think twice about spending

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100 thousand dollars just so her mom could taste that soup she'd been craving.

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Getting paid that much for cooking one meal was clearly a sweet deal for Alistair, though money wasn't exactly tight for him these days.

Since becoming the female CEO's kept man, his monthly allowance had reached one million dollars. To put it bluntly,

even if he wanted to be poor again, he probably couldn't manage

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During his six years with Rebecca, the only skill he'd truly developed was his increasingly impressive cooking.

Alistair considered the request carefully.

this was Vivienne, someone who had shown

wasn't the type to leave debts

friend has made a request. How

She's Rebecca's friend. To avoid unnecessary complications, make up

is Rebecca, and Vivienne is Vivienne. You

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because you're

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credits.

Alistair was speechless.

once, the system had set

I need to think about this,"

was just grateful he hadn't immediately turned her down. "No

so close to her, she wouldn't have

helping her mother, Vivienne, the kind-hearted

had walked away from

his name.

make ends meet, Rebecca callously replied that it

a grown man manages to starve himself to death," Rebecca had added, "that just proves how

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like Vivienne-just another dinner out with friends- but it could make a huge difference

to him, she realized she was the one overthinking things. He sounded perfectly normal,

a shower, and finished breakfast. Right on schedule, he went downstairs to find a Maybach waiting at the curb. Caroline sat in the back seat, gesturing for him

beside her. "Did you get here

her laptop. “No, just arrived. Your timing

City Hall

Good old City Hall!

to be

whole thing felt like some kind of joke. He was

today, like

thought about it,

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part was that the woman processing their marriage certificate was the exact same lady who had handled his divorce. from Rebecca

saw Caroline. "Well, aren't

was universal. Women were just as quick to notice a

clerk instinctively glanced at

wife is absolutely gorgeous. You're so... lucky." Her

dawned on her face.

politely,

face in shock. She

at barely forty, her

feel like I'd seen this young man just yesterday? And filing for divorce,

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clearly was because Alistair and Rebecca had made such a

They were both

a

to file for divorce, she'd silently lamented what

was.

beautiful pair.

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she was thinking the same thing

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had good taste in women.

than yesterday's, with a

the marriage certificate, Alistair stared

weird sense of humor. "Are you done admiring it?"