Chapter 10 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.

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

the type to leave debts unpaid. Besides,

made a request. How

friend. To avoid unnecessary complications,

Vivienne is Vivienne. You won't deliberately distance

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no harm just because you're keeping your distance from

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credits.

Alistair was speechless.

the system had set up

to think about this,"

he hadn't immediately

had just divorced Rebecca, and since Vivienne was so close to her, she wouldn't

the kind-hearted girl, secretly wanted to

that Alistair had

his name.

Alistair would make ends meet, Rebecca callously replied that

to starve himself to death," Rebecca

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

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

bed, took a shower, and finished breakfast. Right on schedule, he went downstairs to find a Maybach

beside her. "Did you

just arrived.

to City Hall in

Good old City Hall!

was supposed to be

the whole thing felt like some kind of joke. He

today, like children

it, the

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processing their marriage certificate was the exact

lit up when she saw Caroline. "Well, aren't you a pretty young

appreciation of beauty was universal. Women were just as

clerk instinctively glanced at

your wife is absolutely

dawned on her face.

smiled politely,

face in shock.

at barely forty, her

I'd seen this young man just yesterday? And filing for divorce, no

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so clearly was because Alistair and

were

a perfect

they'd come in to file for divorce, she'd silently lamented what a shame

was.

pair. Why couldn't they

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here she was thinking the

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guy had good taste in women.

than yesterday's, with a classier vibe

the marriage certificate, Alistair stared at their photo,

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