Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 67

Chapter 67 A Life Traded Away

Liam's face went pale.

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Getting the money was one thing. Being asked to cough it back. up? That was worse than a death sentence.

Celeste, always the bolder of the two, jumped in. "You've lost your mind," she snapped. "You were a kid. Where would you get that kind of money at sixteen?"

Alistair looked at her coolly and said, every word clear and deliberate, "Where do you think it came from? You sold me."

He let the word hang.

"Sold" wasn't metaphorical. He meant it. Every day he'd spent working himself into the ground for Rebecca. That was the price.

And they'd taken it.

Across the gathering crowd, murmurs started rising.

"What do you mean, sold'?"

"Did I hear that right? Two million? Alistair dropped out because of

that?"

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"Wait, wasn't that around the same time they upgraded to a new

house and sent that Caleb kid abroad?"

"Oh hell," someone muttered. "I remember wondering how Liam

so

tell me

his own kid," someone

wedding venue, the gossip was

now, suddenly spoke up,

People leaned in.

He wasn't great at school, but

buddy who went to high school in

time, he'd asked his friend to keep an eye on

had confirmed it-Alistair was in the class next door. Top student. Sharp, quiet,

A Life

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genuinely happy to hear Alistair was

helped him through school

He'd always hoped Alistair would go

the friend called and said Alistair had dropped out. His homeroom teacher

town said

love.

dumb things when they were young. Even someone like Alistair can get

straight-A

screw-ups

weird like

or maybe it was the collective itch of an audience desperate to finish a half-spilled story, but the

school-Alistair Harlow?

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put the call

came through the line stunned the whole

"Top ten out of two thousand students? Are you

ten in the entire

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