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 email

would Eloise be right now? What would

had been a smart girl, a college

escape her small, remote

their family, in their town, that was the ultimate disgrace, a

she died, Eloise was

genuinely tried. Maybe they'd even loved her as their own. But it didn't

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infertility, miraculously got pregnant with

had their own flesh and blood, they completely lost interest in raising Eloise. They

with an elderly relative, basically forgetting she

tirelessly for days, following faint trails

found Eloise abandoned

so weak they were

story in a low, matter-of-fact

made Alistair's chest ache with pain

took his breath

He suddenly missed Eloise.

want to kiss her little face, hug her tight, swing her

and hear her

being a good father, a doting father. He

given

possessed, holding nothing

like it

dropped Eloise off at Mabel's

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

pact to

suddenly popped into Alistair's head. "Does Leo even know?

a short, sharp scoff. "That deadbeat dad? The kind who

Eloise's father."

with a

out and tucked a stray strand of hair

your

slightly. "Not

mother."

to connect the dots. Leo's

Caroline's aunt.

single one

New York,

was the main reason Caroline had

York herself.

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both lived down

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

own words, they were all just irrelevant

who should have been family, were just

judge her for

overwhelming instinct was a pang

profound sympathy.

close to her grandmother

aunt? What happened there?

be some serious,

wife must have gone through a

growing up.

his own relatively ordinary upbringing.

had remarried, and even that had brought its own share of challenges and difficulties most people couldn't

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in a super-rich, powerful family? That has to

and messy.

"Aaaah!!"

a park nestled near

sudden, bloodcurdling scream

evening air.

hell

took a nasty

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