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 and dismissed it

Eloise be right now? What would have happened to

had been a smart

to escape her small,

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

died, Eloise was just given

while, her adoptive parents had genuinely tried. Maybe they'd even loved her as their own. But

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infertility, miraculously got

own flesh and blood, they completely

an elderly relative,

had searched tirelessly for days,

Eloise abandoned in a

so weak they

Caroline told the story in a low,

scene made Alistair's chest ache with pain

almost took his

He suddenly missed Eloise.

her little face,

and hear

on being a good father, a doting father.

and had given her every ounce

affection he possessed,

It feels like it isn't enough.

Mabel's earlier that

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

pact to

even

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

Eloise's father."

Always with a

and tucked a stray strand of hair behind

and your cousin don't

shook her head slightly. "Not entirely.

mother."

took Alistair a beat to connect

Caroline's aunt.

a single one of Caroline's direct relatives, except for

roots were in New York, so she'd chosen

Caroline had

York herself.

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aunt both

incredibly frosty, practically non-existent. He'd certainly never seen or

Caroline's own words, they were all just irrelevant

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

first reaction wasn't to judge her for being cold

His first, overwhelming instinct was

profound sympathy.

so close to her grandmother but

aunt? What happened there?

to be some serious,

My wife must have gone through a hell

growing up.

thought about his own relatively ordinary upbringing. His mother had

even that had brought its own share of challenges

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has to be a whole other level of

and messy.

"Aaaah!!"

at night, in a park nestled near some

bloodcurdling scream ripped through

evening air.

hell

took a

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