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.

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

debts unpaid.

has made a

unnecessary complications, make

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

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just because you're keeping your distance

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50 system credits. Choose

Alistair was speechless.

had set up equally balanced

need to

hadn't

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

kind-hearted girl,

learned that Alistair had

his name.

worried about how Alistair would make ends meet, Rebecca callously replied that

himself to death," Rebecca had added, "that just proves

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heiresses like Vivienne-just another dinner out with friends- but

making the call, Vivienne had worried that Alistair's pride might be hurt. After talking to him, she realized she was the one overthinking things. He sounded perfectly normal, which put her

oversized bed, took a shower, and finished breakfast. Right on schedule, he went downstairs to find a Maybach waiting at the curb. Caroline sat in the back

her.

closed her laptop. “No, just

to City

Good old City Hall!

married was supposed to be a

whole thing felt like some kind of joke. He was

today, like children playing

more he thought about it,

A

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woman processing their marriage certificate was the exact same lady who had

saw Caroline. "Well, aren't you

Women were just as quick to notice a

clerk instinctively

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

dawned on her face.

politely, "Thank

at his face in shock.

barely forty, her memory

seen this young man just yesterday?

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so clearly was because Alistair and Rebecca had made such a

were

a perfect

file for divorce, she'd silently

was.

beautiful pair. Why

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here she was thinking the same

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admit, this guy had good taste in women. Today's girl

yesterday's, with a classier vibe

the marriage certificate,

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