Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 167 Wonderfully Unfair

"I'm busy. Can't return. I've got work to do."

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If they didn't know better, they'd think Caroline was brushing off a complete stranger. Someone she barely tolerated, someone she had no interest in getting close to.

Maybe in her mind, Gordon really was a stranger.

Without another word, she tossed the phone back to Julian, who stood there frozen. Then she glanced at Alistair, just a flicker, not enough time for him to react.

The second they stepped across the threshold of her office, Caroline leaned in close. Her breath warmed the shell of his warmed the shell of his

ear, soft enough to feel intimate, but the feeling that crept up Alistair's spine was anything but tender. It reminded him of a snake, coiling close, ready to strike.

He wasn't saying his wife was venomous, but something about her tone, the quiet chill wrapped in heat, sent a very real pressure through his chest.

Caroline narrowed her eyes. "Was that pity I just saw in your eyes, Alistair? You felt sorry for me?"

Her relationship with her father had always been strained. Not because she was rebellious or ungrateful, but because Gordon had never been the kind of father anyone should have to

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tolerate. Growing up in a broken household, even as the daughter of a billionaire, hadn't made her lucky. Not in the ways that mattered.

And Caroline, proud as she was, couldn't stand to be pitied.

Alistair knew better than to argue, but still, he tried. "That wasn't pity," he said,

hesitating just for a beat before adding, "It was... concern."

The moment he said it, he straightened his shoulders a bit. Yeah, he felt bad for her. And even Caroline didn't get to twist his intentions around.

Luckily, his kind and terrifying wife let it slide with a quiet

snort.

Their routine resumed like clockwork. Caroline took her seat behind the desk while Alistair slipped into the office's private lounge. It was their unspoken rhythm, unbothered companionship that needed no show of affection.

Over time, their afternoons had settled into a pattern. Unless something urgent came up, Alistair usually spent his time holed up in that lounge, writing. The two of them didn't talk much while they worked, but that was the point. They were together, quietly.

He'd even started to notice a strange phenomenon.

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like it was policy. No one looked at

of Vireon Technologies like he belonged, something changed. People started glancing

any man who can win her heart? That

thoughtfully. "So what you're saying is, at first they didn't dare look because they assumed I was someone powerful. But now they've realized I'm just a regular

"Don't sell yourself short. You've got something no one else does. Otherwise, out of all the

Alistair smirked to himself.

out of millions

didn't mean he

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well, then maybe the world was just wonderfully

in his favor.

He chuckled.

once they got used to

again... until

knew exactly why. The

Let them talk.

too. Time had a way of silencing rumors without

across the couch, opened up Wattpad,

come in. One glance, and he was

it had found its rhythm. After a few ups and downs, his

superstar, not a failure.

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paid the bills

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day writing made-up stories on Wattpad,

got into the flow, he heard a knock at

was odd. Julian never lowered his voice around Alistair. Usually, he walked in and started reporting things like Alistair wasn't

That meant he was talking, just not out loud. He was whispering, intentionally keeping

Okay, now that's suspicious.

an outsider. The

it all the more obvious

minutes later, someone knocked softly on

"Babe, I've got a meeting to go to. Stay here, and if you

handle your stuff. I'll

she walked out, though,

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knew her well enough to recognize a

thinking it through. And then

no to her father's voice on the other end of the line. But if Gordon showed up in person,

was still her company, yes, but no one here could stop

to Caroline's office, probably out of consideration for

ahead, had clearly played along. That was why she'd claimed she