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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found the situation oddly amusing. Here he was,

loving couple in public, but rarely

weren't you married? Why sleep in different rooms?" Caroline

voice.

fell silent

said understandingly. "You don't have

gave a self-deprecating laugh. "It's nothing special, really. We were never truly husband and wife. Back then, I needed money, and she needed a father for the baby

So..."

would erase

good would erasing it do? It would

of Caroline now didn't

for him.

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had been, it was over.

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not to gain sympathy, but simply to state the facts. For some reason, he felt that if she wanted to know, he had

silence, Caroline's voice carried an

to define.

thing, but hearing him talk

was apologizing for reopening his

nothing, I've moved on," when she said wistfully, "I wish I'd met

froze. His heart suddenly

earlier, you could have been Eloise's dad," Caroline continued. "Eloise is such a good kid, and I'm a reasonable person. I wouldn't have

years ago, looking back on that

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doesn't offer

Caroline sighed softly. "Yeah."

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do-overs, but

came to an abrupt

stiff as the Barbie dolls Eloise arranged on her toy bed during playtime, a full three feet apart, both perfectly straight and utterly rigid.

position.

across that three-foot divide, making it impossible to gauge

like hours and mere seconds

she heard Alistair's

no way he could be

now.

Alistair had fallen asleep, he was doing the exact same thing

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such torture. Despite Caroline's soft mattress, his body screamed in protest from staying frozen in one position.