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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employees avoided eye contact like it was policy. No one looked at him, no one acknowledged his presence. It

started appearing more often, walking in and out of Vireon Technologies like he belonged, something changed. People started glancing at

of curiosity, he asked Julian about it one afternoon. Julian grinned. "Well, you are Caroline's man. And any man who can win her heart? That makes people wonder. They're probably just trying to figure

they didn't dare look because they assumed I was someone powerful. But now they've realized I'm just a regular guy, and now they're confused how someone like me ended up with someone like

You've got something no one else does. Otherwise, out of all the men in the world,

Alistair smirked to himself.

And somehow, out of

he had

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well, then maybe the world was

in his favor.

He chuckled.

got used to seeing him around, they started

the novelty wore off, they stopped again... until recently,

knew exactly

Let them talk.

knew the truth, and eventually, they would too. Time had a way

the couch, opened up Wattpad,

One

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

not a failure. The numbers

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paid the bills and

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a guy who spends half his day writing made-up stories on

he got into the flow, he heard a knock at the office door. Julian stepped in and then

Usually, he walked in and started reporting things like Alistair wasn't even

he was talking, just not out loud.

Okay, now that's suspicious.

treated him like an outsider. The fact that he was doing so

all the more obvious

few minutes later, someone knocked softly

outside. "Babe, I've got a meeting to go to. Stay here, and if you need anything, just ask

your stuff. I'll be

walked out,

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But Alistair knew her well enough to recognize a

thinking it through. And then it clicked.

a summons. She could say no to her father's voice on the other end of the line. But if Gordon showed up in person, there wasn't

one here could stop

must've intentionally avoided bringing him to Caroline's office, probably out

played along. That was why she'd claimed she was going to