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 him

wasn't the type to leave debts unpaid. Besides, her request wasn't

best friend has made a request. How

She's Rebecca's friend. To avoid unnecessary

and Vivienne is Vivienne. You won't

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because you're keeping your distance from

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50 system credits. Choose

Alistair was speechless.

had set

but I need to

hadn't immediately turned her

Rebecca, and since Vivienne was so close to her, she wouldn't have bothered him if she wasn't trying to prepare a special gift for

course, beyond helping her mother, Vivienne, the kind-hearted girl, secretly wanted to give Alistair

learned that Alistair had

his name.

worried about how Alistair would make ends meet, Rebecca

grown man manages to starve himself to death," Rebecca had

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like Vivienne-just another dinner out with friends- but it could

worried that Alistair's pride might be hurt. After talking to him, she realized she was the one overthinking things. He sounded

Right on schedule, he went downstairs to find a Maybach waiting at the curb.

in beside her. "Did you

her laptop. “No, just arrived. Your

to City Hall in

Good old City Hall!

was supposed to be

whole thing felt like some kind of joke. He

today, like children playing

more he 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

saw Caroline. "Well, aren't

was universal. Women were just as quick to notice a gorgeous

clerk instinctively

beside Caroline. "Young man, your wife is absolutely gorgeous.

dawned on her face.

politely,

at his face in shock. She was sure her

at barely forty, her memory was

why did I feel like I'd seen this young man just

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was because Alistair and Rebecca

They were both

a

they'd come in to file for divorce, she'd silently

was.

such a beautiful pair. Why

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was thinking the same thing

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to admit, this guy had good taste

yesterday's, with

had the marriage certificate, Alistair stared at their photo,

marriage, just like that? The universe really has a weird sense of humor. "Are you done admiring it?" Caroline snatched the certificate from his hand before he could