Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 54 Wish I Had Met You Sooner

In the darkness, Caroline's voice was so close that it felt like

Alistair could reach out and touch her.

And he actually could. They were lying on opposite sides of the bed with barely three feet between them, just a hand's reach away from each other.

"I'm pretty still," Alistair answered honestly.

Then he couldn't help wondering if Caroline was a restless

sleeper.

He was hugging the very edge of the bed, taking up maybe twenty inches of the seven-foot-wide mattress. She was petite. The remaining four feet should be plenty of room for her to stretch

out.

With this thought, Alistair unconsciously shifted even closer to his edge of the bed. He only stopped when half his body was practically hanging off the mattress.

After a moment of silence, Caroline spoke again, "Actually, I don't move around much when I sleep either."

"Oh," Alistair responded, not sure why she felt the need to tell him

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this.

Eventually, Caroline sighed, "You should move more toward the

center. What if you fall off in the middle of the night?"

Alistair was left speechless. She caught him.

Alistair gave an awkward laugh. "It's fine. I've always liked sleeping on the edge of the bed since I was a kid."

Caroline rolled her eyes.

"But I'm worried you might fall off in the middle of the night and freak me out," she quickly added. "Just so you know, I get really cranky when I wake up."

Alistair silently shifted toward the middle of the bed.

Caroline felt the mattress trembling as he moved closer, and her heart fluttered in response.

Once Alistair settled in, he went completely still.

"Did you sleep on the edge with your ex-wife too?" Caroline asked, already knowing the answer.

"No, we slept in separate rooms."

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situation oddly amusing. Here he

meticulously played the role of a loving couple in public, but

Why sleep in different rooms?" Caroline knew everything already, but she wanted to

voice.

fell silent

understandingly. "You don't have to

were never truly husband and wife.

So..."

Alistair would erase this chapter of

would just be

of Caroline now

for him.

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the past had been, it was over. He'd completely moved on from

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everything, not to gain sympathy, but simply to state the facts. For some reason, he felt

a long silence, Caroline's voice

define. "I'm

one thing, but hearing him talk about it with such detachment was

apologizing for reopening his

moved on," when she said wistfully, "I wish I'd met

His heart

you earlier, you could have been Eloise's dad," Caroline continued. "Eloise is such a

her daughter six years ago, looking back

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doesn't offer

Caroline sighed softly. "Yeah."

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but thankfully, now wasn't

conversation came to

on her toy bed during playtime, a full three feet apart, both perfectly straight

position.

on Alistair across that three-foot divide, making it impossible to

like hours and mere

heard Alistair's deep, steady

he actually asleep? There's no way he could be

now.

Caroline wondered if Alistair had fallen asleep, he was doing the

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his body screamed in protest from staying frozen in one