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 much cash.

tell me

own kid," someone else

venue, the gossip

until now, suddenly spoke up, "So that's

People leaned in.

always had good social skills. He wasn't great

went to high school

asked his friend to keep an eye on Alistair, bragging

Top student. Sharp, quiet, impressive. Nothing like the spoiled rich kids who'd bought

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genuinely

helped him through school by letting him copy homework

always hoped

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

adults in town said Alistair

love.

done dumb things when they were young. Even

straight-A

screw-ups turned

weird like

it was the collective itch of an audience desperate to finish a half-spilled story, but the groom pulled out his phone right there and called that

from school-Alistair Harlow?

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the

line

whispered, "Top ten out of two thousand students?

been top ten in the entire grade before

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