The Love From Vengeance

wasn’t friendly.

“I think you know the reason why I’ve come here,” he said in a solemn tone.

2 PLANS

ARIEL’S POV

by are you staring at me like that, huh?” Mason questioned, his tone still snarky along with

“Can you please let go of me?” I uttered as he was squeezing my arm, and it hurt like hell.

“Your wish is my command,” he mockingly replied, and he shoved me backwards. I almost fell, but I managed to keep my balance.

Mason moved closer. “I came to tell you a few things. There have been some changes in my plans.”

“What do you mean by that?” I asked in a hushed tone.

Still wearing his mordant smirk, he began to walk around me in circles. “As you can see, we’re no longer going with the first plan. I’ve thought about it and realized that I need to go to extremes to succeed in this mission. Well, we need to go extreme.”

“I still don’t understand,” I said, giving him a puzzled look.

He stopped walking in circles. “Here’s the thing. You’re not going to do all that business stuff with Luke anymore. You are going to marry him.”

His words shocked me. “Wait a minute, you want me to marry Luke?”

“Yes, it won’t be too difficult, will it?”

“Look, there’s no way I’m doing that. I’d rather stick to the first plan.”

“Too bad.” He snapped his fingers and calmly said, “It’s already been canceled.” He wrapped his arm around my neck. “We’ll be following the new plan, and you’ll have to marry Luke first

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before we can proceed.”

I removed his hands from me. “Luke is my ex–husband.”

i don’t know

someone else to help you carry out this silly plan

“You know what I can

just stick to the

down,” Mason admitted. “But if we want to do that, someone will have to be by his side, really close

I stood firm in my disagreement. “I’d rather die than become Luke’s wife

rather let your little babies die?” Mason leaned closer, wearing a

think about it.”

pulled his face back. “And if you refuse to do as

thought you loved

get me wrong, sweetheart, I do.” Mason placed his hands on his chest. “But the truth is, I love revenge more than anything else. And you’re going

so he had put me in this difficult situation. Why did he have to tell me to marry Luke? Oh

yet?” Mason chuckled. “I don’t even understand why you find this situation so challenging. You hate Luke and want to get revenge for

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why we agreed that we would work together to ensure

that’s precisely what we’re doing here. You’ll get married to him, and then we can proceed

“How?”

questions,” he replied curtly. “Just do as I say,

you so

when you were married to that scumbag.” He yawned, stretching his arms. “I need to get. some sleep. We’ll continue this discussion tomorrow.”

started walking, and when he reached the stairs, he stopped, turned around, and asked, “Is there

I answered, feeling

to lead the way?” He smirked, gesturing

long sigh and slowly

I was the only one who placed myself

up with Mason, not knowing about his other intentions. This came as a big blow to me, and it

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

consuming too much alcohol last night. Riley

well.

I had to take too much alcohol. And I couldn’t believe Harriet would do such a thing. She claimed to love me, didn’t she? She told me countless times that I was the only one in her heart and no one else. So why did she have to do