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.”

don’t

way I’m marrying him. Find someone else to help

chuckled. “You know what I can

why don’t we just stick to the first plan? I’ll bring Luke’s company down before you know

want to do that, someone will have to be

but I can’t.” I stood firm in my disagreement. “I’d rather die than become Luke’s

your little babies die?” Mason leaned closer, wearing a malevolent smirk. “Just imagine

dare think about it.” My

you refuse to do as I say, I’ll have no other option but to follow

you

anything else. And you’re going to help me execute my revenge. Refuse to do so, and

children, so he had put me in

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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that we would work together

doing here. You’ll get married to him, and then we can proceed

“How?”

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

you so

just like when you were married to that scumbag.” He yawned, stretching his arms. “I

stairs, he stopped,

answered, feeling

way?” He smirked, gesturing towards the

let out a long sigh and slowly walked in

was the only one who placed myself in this goddamn situation. Revenge,

I had it all. I wanted revenge, so I had to team up with Mason, not knowing about his other

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

myself lying on the floor. I had fallen asleep after consuming too much alcohol last night. Riley was sitting nearby. With my eyes half–opened, I sat up

well.

Harriet would do such a thing. She claimed to love me, didn’t she? She