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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office, the employees avoided eye contact like it was policy.

Technologies like he belonged, something changed. People started glancing

you are Caroline's man. And any man who can win her heart? That makes people

someone powerful. But now they've realized I'm just a regular guy,

out laughing. "Don't sell yourself short. You've got something no one else does. Otherwise, out of all the men in the world, why would Caroline pick

Alistair smirked to himself.

out of millions of

mean he had

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well, then maybe the

in his favor.

He chuckled.

people didn't dare look. Then, once they got used to seeing

until recently, when the sideways glances started creeping back

he knew exactly

Let them talk.

too. Time had a way of

sprawled comfortably across the couch, opened up Wattpad, and checked

One glance, and he was already typing

its rhythm. After

superstar, not a failure. The numbers

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they paid the

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half his day writing made-up stories

he heard a knock at the office door. Julian

Usually, he

time... silence. That meant he was talking, just not out loud. He was whispering, intentionally keeping his voice low so Alistair wouldn't

Okay, now that's suspicious.

like an outsider. The fact that he was doing

all the more obvious that something wasn't

knocked

to. Stay here, and if you

"Go handle your stuff.

as she walked out,

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her well enough to

with it for a moment, thinking

could ignore a summons. She could say no to her father's voice on the other end of the line.

here could stop Gordon if

bringing him to Caroline's office, probably

had clearly played along. That was why