Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 150 The Past

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Alistair had never tried to pry into Caroline's family. Even though they were married, he believed that sometimes, even between spouses, there should be space for privacy.

Everyone had secrets they'd rather keep to themselves. He was no exception. He hadn't told Caroline about the system.

It wasn't because he didn't love her enough. It was just that the nature of it was too complex to explain, and sharing it would only bring unnecessary confusion. He would rather keep it to himself

and use its power to protect her quietly, without her ever having to

know.

Caroline rarely mentioned any relatives, which he'd assumed was her way of avoiding memories that brought her pain.

So when she suddenly brought up her mother, Alistair was caught

completely off guard.

She has no mother, just like me? What does that even mean?

As far as he knew, her mother had been living abroad this whole

time.

That was what Mabel told him. And Mabel wasn't the type to lie, especially not about something like this.

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Caroline's voice remained calm, but there was a faint trace of

sorrow in it.

It was clear she'd spent a long time coming to terms with her mother's absence before she could speak about it with such

composure.

Alistair felt something twist in his chest. He understood her pain

all too well.

There was a kind of loneliness only motherless kids understood. He never imagined she'd lived with that too.

"My mom left for another country when I was really young. She never divorced my dad, but she stopped coming home. At first, she visited often, but over the years, it became less and less. Eventually, she just stopped coming back altogether. The last time I saw her, she came back to finalize the divorce."

Alistair held her close, wanting to stop her from going on, but he

had no idea what to say.

"Later, people told me she had found someone new overseas, started a new family, and had more kids. Others said she became a nun and cut ties with the world. But no one ever told me the truth-that my mom had gotten sick. Really sick. That last time she came back, she gave me a small box and told me not to open

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box than

always listened to my mom. She said after I turned eighteen, so I promised her! would

sighed quietly. "But the box still

used to live with my grandmother. Around that time, she wasn't doing well and had to move into

taking care

meant Julian. That was what she used to

listening. Some memories were painful, but being able to talk about them

day, Paige came

He interrupted, "Who's Paige?"

"She's Leo's mother."

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went

girl with her. While I wasn't looking, the

and started going through my

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like the memory had

rubbed her back, giving

tore my room apart. She found the box. By the time I realized what

everything to Caroline, something she'd guarded like a treasure. The fact that the girl found it meant she had turned the entire

and wait for an adult to step in. She hit

came storming in and slapped

she was a

this point, Alistair pulled her into

in his chest.

went through

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been in the wrong, and somehow Caroline

was the day Caroline cut

to Caroline's father, Gordon Ashbourne, and put on a show. Gordon told Caroline

night, Caroline finally looked inside the

left.

baby all the way through childhood, and several notebooks filled with her mother's handwriting, pages and

girl, you're all grown up now. Life

damp warmth of her tears soaking through his shirt. He said nothing. He just held

when she finally understood that her

sick.

she couldn't take

the country.

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