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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first showed up at the office, the employees avoided eye contact like it was policy. No

Technologies like he belonged, something changed. People started glancing at him. Not outright staring, but enough for him to catch

are Caroline's man. And any man who can win her heart?

was someone powerful. But now they've realized I'm just a

got something no one else does. Otherwise, out

Alistair smirked to himself.

only one Caroline. And somehow, out of millions of

he had some hidden, blindingly

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maybe the world was just

in his favor.

He chuckled.

got used to

until recently, when the sideways glances started creeping

knew exactly why. The

Let them talk.

a way of silencing rumors without anyone

opened up Wattpad, and

in. One glance,

hit, but it had found its rhythm. After a

superstar, not a failure. The

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paid the bills and then

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

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

voice around Alistair. Usually, he walked in and

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

Okay, now that's suspicious.

like an outsider. The fact that he was

more obvious

someone knocked

to. Stay here, and if you need anything, just

handle your stuff. I'll

soon as she walked out,

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her well

moment, thinking it through. And then

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

yes, but no one here could

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

always thinking ten steps ahead, had clearly played along. That was why