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.

blown off

be right now?

had been a smart girl,

escape her small, remote

in their

died, Eloise was

while, her adoptive parents had genuinely tried. Maybe they'd even loved her as their own. But it didn't last. Not long after they took Eloise in, the adoptive mother,

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for years with infertility, miraculously got pregnant with her own

and blood, they completely lost interest in raising

an elderly relative, basically forgetting she

for days, following faint trails and

finally found Eloise abandoned in a

so weak they

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

scene made Alistair's chest ache with pain

almost took his

He suddenly missed Eloise.

just want to kiss her little face,

and

always prided himself on being a good father,

given her

he possessed,

It feels like

dropped Eloise off at Mabel's earlier that

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had been a long one, and they hadn't quite finished it. So, they had made a solem

pact to

Leo even know? Does he have any idea he has

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

Eloise's father."

wife. Always with

a stray strand of hair behind her ear.

why you and your

slightly. "Not entirely.

mother."

took Alistair a beat to connect

Caroline's aunt.

day, Alistair hadn't met a single one of Caroline's direct relatives,

were in New York, so she'd

the main reason Caroline had decided

York herself.

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father and her aunt both

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

Caroline's own words, they were

who should have been family, were just

first reaction wasn't to judge

overwhelming instinct

profound sympathy.

so close to her grandmother

aunt? What happened there?

be some

through a

growing up.

own relatively

his father had remarried, and even that had brought its own share of challenges and difficulties most people

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That has to be a whole other

and messy.

"Aaaah!!"

night, in a

scream ripped through the

evening air.

hell

like someone took a nasty

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