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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amusing. Here he was, chatting with Caroline

role of a loving couple in public,

you married? Why sleep in different rooms?" Caroline

voice.

fell silent for

mind," Caroline said understandingly. "You don't have

nothing special, really. We were never truly husband and wife. Back then, I needed

So..."

would erase this chapter of his life

would just be

it in front of Caroline now didn't feel particularly

for him.

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

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gain sympathy, but simply to state the facts. For some reason, he felt

long silence, Caroline's voice carried

to define. "I'm

his past was one thing, but hearing him talk about it

reopening his old

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

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 made

might have been. If he had met Caroline and her daughter six years ago, looking back on that time wouldn't have brought pain

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doesn't offer do-overs,"

Caroline sighed softly. "Yeah."

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do-overs, but

to an abrupt

full three feet apart, both perfectly straight and

position.

to stretch like taffy. All her focus zeroed in on Alistair across that three-foot divide, making it impossible to gauge how long they'd been

felt simultaneously like hours and mere seconds had

silence, she heard Alistair's

way he could be

now.

Alistair had fallen asleep, he

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realized sleeping could be such torture. Despite Caroline's soft mattress, his body screamed in protest from staying frozen in one position. Every muscle felt like it