Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 147

Chapter 147 Eloise's Story

"Honey, do you really know who Leo is?"

Caroline's question dropped out of the blue like that, completely

sideswiping Alistair.

Okay, if I'm not mistaken, he's her actual cousin, right?

But Alistair knew Caroline well enough to know she wouldn't ask

something so blindingly obvious.

And he already knew about the musical genius, the mega-star

status.

What else is there?

Caroline's mood seemed to dip. "I never told you Eloise's story, did I? Her background?"

It hit Alistair like a jolt of electricity, a shiver running straight through him. "He's..."

Caroline just nodded with a quiet Mm-hmm.

Alistair fell silent.

Back before he and Caroline had really connected, before they

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were on the same wavelength, he'd occasionally let his mind wander, wondering who Eloise's biological father might be.

Later, when he found out Caroline had adopted Eloise, his

curiosity about her origins was piqued.

Caroline had told him bits and pieces. Her own mother had died in childbirth, and her father was a world-class scumbag.

But never in a million years would he have guessed that Eloise's biological father was a household name, a celebrity practically everyone on the planet knew...

Eloise's birth mother had been a huge fan of Leo's, not much older

than Caroline herself.

Right before she went into labor, she'd somehow managed to track down Caroline's email address. Maybe she'd had some kind of premonition, a feeling that she wasn't going to make it because she'd sent Caroline an email, a desperate plea for Leo to come

and see her one last time.

She'd promised she would never, ever bother him again.

Over a year later, Caroline finally logged into that old email account and stumbled across the message. She'd been stunned. After a ton of digging and dead ends, she finally found Eloise, a tiny, underweight, sickly little girl.

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The very first moment she laid eyes on Eloise, Caroline knew she

had to adopt her.

Alistair's heart clenched, a wave of pain washing over him for

Eloise, losing her mother the moment she was born, then being. passed around,

treated like nothing more than a burden.

Thank God she'd found Caroline.

Hearing the full story of his precious little girl's beginnings, Alistair

felt a fresh wave of fear, a retroactive chill.

if Caroline had just blown off that

be right now? What would

birth mother had been a smart girl, a college

her

baby out of wedlock? In their family, in their town, that

Eloise was just given

her as their own. But it didn't last. Not long after they took

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with infertility, miraculously got pregnant

parents had their own flesh and blood, they

elderly relative, basically forgetting she

searched tirelessly for days, following faint trails

Eloise abandoned in a literal

cries so weak they were barely

told the story in a low, matter-of-fact voice,

made Alistair's chest ache with

took

He suddenly missed Eloise.

little face, hug her tight, swing

air, and hear her

always prided himself on being a good father, a doting father.

had given

he possessed, holding nothing

hearing this? It feels like

at Mabel's

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the dog for a walk. Yesterday's story had been a long one, and they hadn't quite finished it. So,

pact to

into Alistair's head. "Does Leo even know? Does he have

deadbeat dad? The kind who loves them and leaves them? He doesn't deserve to

Eloise's father."

with a spot-on moral

reached out and tucked a stray strand of hair behind

you and your

"Not entirely. I can't

mother."

took Alistair a beat to

Caroline's aunt.

this day, Alistair hadn't met a single one of

York, so she'd chosen

reason Caroline had

York herself.

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father and her aunt both lived down in

with Caroline was incredibly frosty, practically non-existent. He'd certainly never seen or heard them

they

should have been family, were just irrelevant outsiders to

reaction wasn't to judge

first, overwhelming instinct was a pang of

profound sympathy.

why is she so close to her grandmother but completely

aunt? What happened there?

be some serious, ugly

must have gone through a hell of a lot of

growing up.

his own relatively ordinary upbringing. His mother

its own share of challenges and difficulties

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That has to be a

and messy.

"Aaaah!!"

o'clock at night, in a park nestled near

bloodcurdling scream ripped through

evening air.

the hell

like someone took

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