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.

had just blown off

would Eloise be right now? What would

a

her

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

she died, Eloise was

as their own. But it didn't last. Not long after they took Eloise in,

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years with infertility, miraculously got pregnant with her

blood, they completely lost interest in raising Eloise.

relative,

for days, following faint trails and

found Eloise abandoned in a literal

so weak

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

scene made Alistair's chest ache with

took his

He suddenly missed Eloise.

just want to kiss her little face, hug her tight, swing her up high

and hear

always prided himself on being a good father,

given her

affection he possessed, holding nothing

like it isn't enough.

off at Mabel's earlier that day.

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walk. Yesterday's story had been a long one, and they hadn't quite finished

pact to

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

a short, sharp scoff. "That deadbeat dad? The kind who loves them and leaves

Eloise's father."

Always with

and tucked a stray strand of

why you and your cousin

slightly. "Not entirely.

mother."

to connect the dots. Leo's mother

Caroline's aunt.

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

roots were in New York, so she'd chosen to

was the main reason Caroline had decided to stay

York herself.

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aunt both lived

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

they were

aunt, people who should have been family, were just irrelevant outsiders to

reaction wasn't to judge

His first, overwhelming instinct was

profound sympathy.

her grandmother but completely cuts off her father

aunt? What happened there?

be some serious, ugly

line. My wife must have gone through a

growing up.

about his own relatively ordinary upbringing. His mother had

had brought its

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That has to be a whole other

and messy.

"Aaaah!!"

in a park nestled near some

a sudden, bloodcurdling scream ripped through the otherwise

evening air.

the hell

like someone took

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