Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 136 The Second Place

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Alistair looked lazily at Caleb, who was practically shaking with

rage.

He was only about an inch taller than Caleb, maybe an inch and a half at most, but to anyone watching, that inch might as well have been a mile. If Alistair stood at six feet, then Caleb looked like he barely scraped three and a half. It wasn't about height. It was his

presence.

So when Alistair looked down at him, despite the negligible difference in stature, there was an unmistakable air of superiority

in his gaze.

Caleb was furious. His chest rose and fell violently, as if he were about to pass out from sheer indignation. And yet, for all that anger, he couldn't do a thing to Alistair.

Alistair was already bored.

His time was valuable. He had no intention of wasting it on someone this beneath him.

He said impatiently, "If you went through all this trouble just to

feed me that kind of fantasy, then you've said your piece. Now get lost."

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"You-" Caleb choked, but forced himself to breathe deeply, over

and over, until he managed to rein in his temper and spit out the

real reason he'd come.

Alistair gave him a pitying look, as if genuinely wondering whether the guy had finally cracked after taking one too many hits.

He wanted Alistair to rescue Celeste.

What a joke.

Alistair had personally handed Celeste over for judgment, and now Caleb wanted him to pull her back out? What, did he think this was some kind of game?

And Caleb's reasoning nearly made Alistair laugh out loud.

He said Liam was paralyzed and needed care. That family would always take better care than' outsiders.

Alistair stared at Caleb, who truly believed he could be persuaded, and said with measured sympathy, "Caleb, you and I barely grew up under the same roof, but even from a distance, I always knew you couldn't keep up with me academically. Do you

know why?"

He chuckled. "Even with your mom pushing you nonstop, even with all the pressure and effort, you still couldn't beat me. Ever

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my life just to make you look better? Why

have to sell me out just to prop

face darkened like

when people compared

stung worse than hearing it from Alistair

hadn't lived with Alistair for long, but his name had followed

to his ankle.

them together

to beat Alistair. You need to

designed for a single purpose, which was to eclipse Alistair, to

put into studying, no matter how many times

higher.

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beat him. Not just by a few

lot.

Celeste was thrilled and even bought him those designer sneakers he'd been

own.

celebration

soon learned the reason Alistair's total score had dipped was because he'd missed the math exam due to illness. And math was Alistair's strongest subject. He usually scored a

he'd shown up, he

Celeste snapped. Caleb snapped.

lay in bed, seething, whispering curses

would

died, maybe Caleb could finally breathe. Maybe

grind would stop.

him the best they could, a decent life,

could afford. But

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he got, the worse the pressure became. By

his backpack. She found his

score.

then that Alistair was destined for the Ivy

That was far less

to be his second place for

life?

it.

by some miracle,

golden era had

without comparisons was bliss. Everything seemed to fall into place. He

could finally