Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 51 Sleep With Mommy

"No matter how they tried to explain, Eloise stubbornly equated "sleeping in separate rooms" with "fighting and being angry."

Apparently, Zoe's parents had a huge argument yesterday over something and even mentioned divorce. Zoe had been crying all day at preschool.

Eloise, being a good friend, had spent half the day comforting her, secretly grateful that her own parents never fought.

But when Eloise heard that Zoe's parents were sleeping

in separate rooms after their fight, her heart dropped. She remembered that Alistair and Caroline slept in separate rooms too.

They have been fighting behind my back?

Worry clouded Eloise's mind as she rushed to Caroline's room the moment she got home. There was only one pillow on Caroline's bed. She darted to Alistair's room. Only one pillow there too!

Eloise froze in shock.

It hit her like a thunderbolt. Her comforting belief that her parents had a good relationship, that they loved each other and her, and would always stay together all of it crumbled to dust in an instant.

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At just five years old, Eloise could already envision the day her parents would divorce.

Mom won't leave me, but what if Dad gets kicked out by Mom and

can never come home again, just like Zoe's dad? No, I want Mom and Dad to be together forever!

The more Eloise thought about it, the more upset she became, until she finally burst into tears.

"Mom, Dad, please don't fight anymore, okay?" she sobbed, taking Alistair's and Caroline's hands and joining them together.

Alistair's heart nearly melted at the sight of Eloise's tears. "Okay, I promise you, Eloise. We won't fight anymore."

Eloise turned to Caroline. "What about Mom?"

"Mom promises to never fight with Dad again," Caroline said gently.

But Eloise wasn't satisfied. "I want you to stay together forever and ever. No divorcing!"

"Deal!" Alistair agreed without hesitation.

It was a well-intended lie, but even as he made the firm promise,

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he couldn't help feeling a twinge of guilt.

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other hand, had no

go, not in this lifetime. But she didn't

even explain to herself why she wanted to hold onto him so badly. She couldn't possibly convince Alistair

serious.

to a smile as

and came out clutching his pillow. Her little feet pattered down the hall to Caroline's room, where she placed Alistair's pillow next to Caroline's with a delighted grin. “Daddy, you should sleep with Mommy tonight!" she announced

His mind went

Eloise's angelic, expectant face, he managed a

moment the words left his mouth,

I'd sleep in the same bed as Caroline! Would Caroline

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of

up at him so hopefully,

to see her expression hadn't changed. Maybe he

her usual time, Alistair returned to his own room. Staring at his pillow-less bed, he couldn't help

choice between going to Caroline's room

pillow or just making do for the night, he quickly chose the

shower when someone knocked

Eloise's bedtime was typically their unspoken private time, when he and Caroline had an unwritten agreement not to disturb each

paused mid-motion while drying his hair with a white towel. He quickly walked over and opened the door, expecting to

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should have been fast asleep in her princess bed, stood clutching her small brown teddy bear with a

was at a

for a complete family, he had no choice but to keep up the charade. "Your mom and I needed to shower at the same time, and

"Oh, then hurry back to

Alistair was speechless again.

now, but it's

just tuck her in, wait until she fell asleep, and then sneak back to his own bedroom. After all, he always woke up before her anyway. He

suspiciously. "No way! I need to see w..n my own eyes that you're sleeping in Mommy's

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heart trying

together.

she dragged Alistair to Caroline's door and pounded on it with her tiny

bringing with it a

hair falling messily around her

you!" Eloise announced cheerfully.

Alistair stood there awkwardly.

bedroom had been like a forbidden

week, he'd never

second before quickly