Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 121 The Video Went Viral

Caroline: [Hon, are you home yet?]

If there were ever a competition for Best Husband of the Year, Alistair would win it without even breaking a sweat.

Unlike the kind of men who go out of their way to hide where they'd been, Alistair made it a point to report his every move to Caroline, down to the minute.

When he dropped Eloise off at school in the morning, he'd shoot Caroline a message the second he got home: [Babe, I'm back.]

If he headed out to practice driving, he'd text: [Babe, I'm going to the track.]

And when it was time to pick Eloise up again in the afternoon, of course, another update.

He never saw it as a burden. To him, this was what it meant to be a family.

Caroline, swamped with back-to-back meetings and an endless pile of contracts, would still take a moment to glance at his messages. They were never anything important—just little status updates. And yet, without fail, they made her smile, no matter how exhausted she was.

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She signed the last page and Instinctively reached for her phone to check what she always called Alistair's play-by-play updates But weirdly, nothing. Ten full minutes, and still no text.

Which was weird. He never forgot.

Maybe he'd taken Eloise somewhere. Alistair sometimes stopped by the bookstore after school to pick up comics for her.

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Curious, Caroline tapped out a quick text. A reply came almost

instantly.

Alistair: [Still out, babe. Got delayed watching some drama unfold on the street.]

A second later, a video popped up. She tapped to play it, and within seconds was watching chaos erupt onscreen-people shouting, limbs flailing, a real mess.

Her brows lifted. "Huh."

Caroline and Alistair were clearly cut from the same cloth. She watched the whole thing, a glint of mischief sparking in her eyes. Then she rang for Julian.

He came in promptly, posture upright, face the picture of innocence. "Ms. Ashbourne, how can I help?"

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Caroline forwarded him the video and said, "I want this pushed out on every major platform. I want the whole world to see it."

Julian clicked the video open and winced hard.

Caroline narrowed her eyes. "Problem?"

"None at all!" he said, straight-faced-though the gleam in his eye and his barely concealed excitement betrayed him. "What title would you like me to use?"

Caroline took a sip of her coffee, cleared her throat, and then waved a hand. "Surprise me."

That was all the permission Julian needed. He practically sprinted

out of the room.

Within the hour, a clip titled Two Men Brawl in the Street Over a Woman was burning up the internet.

when a push

same video he'd filmed on his burner account-barely a blip in the algorithm was now

knew exactly who was behind

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cue, a message

is my gift to you. Like

couldn't help

Love it.

a new

He opened it.

crime drama script had passed

round of competition.

or get eliminated in

it. The

dinner table enjoying a warm meal, while online, the street fight drama was exploding across every platform. Now with

trying to escape, only to be blocked by a nosy

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insisting she had nothing to do

was no wonder

her.

trash-accusing her of playing both

then washing her hands of it

messy.

her thrived off male rivalry,

but the majority were

social media,

a discreet message from

friend.

[What's going on with your

tension hung

her chores as quietly as possible and then tried to

idea. But under the sharp gaze of both her parents,

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one, rubbed his belly and grumbled,

snapped, “Eva, take

one foot out the door, froze.

you were done with Richard. That there was nothing

full of

going on? And why did it have

short. The rest

the silence, unsaid but loud

A disloyal woman. A disgrace. And that disgrace was bleeding into the

She felt more exhausted than

hours at the police station, only to

what she'd done wrong life inst

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oblivious one, rubbed his belly

“Eva, take

the door, froze. Reluctantly,

Nathaniel's voice dropped low and firm. "You told me you were done with Richard. That there was nothing between you two. So what the hell