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.

else had asked, he would have flat-out refused. But this was Vivienne, someone who had shown

to leave debts unpaid.

made a request.

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

is Rebecca, and Vivienne is Vivienne. You won't deliberately distance

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harm just because you're keeping your distance from

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credits. Choose

Alistair was speechless.

once, the system had set

sorry, but I need to

grateful he hadn't immediately turned her down.

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

kind-hearted girl,

had walked away from the divorce without a

his name.

Alistair would make ends meet, Rebecca callously replied that it

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

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

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

and finished breakfast. Right on schedule, he went downstairs to find

beside her. "Did

just arrived. Your

to City Hall

Good old City Hall!

supposed to be a sacred,

whole thing felt like some

today,

about it, the more ridiculous it

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their marriage certificate was the exact same lady who had handled

eyes lit up when she saw Caroline. "Well,

universal. Women were just as quick to notice a gorgeous

instinctively glanced

standing beside Caroline. "Young man, your wife is absolutely gorgeous. You're so... lucky."

dawned on her face.

politely, "Thank

face in shock. She was sure her

barely forty, her memory was

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

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remembered so clearly was because

They were both

definitely a

in to file for divorce,

was.

beautiful pair.

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thinking the same

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to admit, this guy had good taste in

yesterday's, with a classier vibe

they had the marriage certificate, Alistair stared at

has a weird sense of humor. "Are you done admiring it?" Caroline snatched the certificate from his