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 that?”

else to help you carry out this silly plan

“You know what I can do, right?”

at him. “Look, why don’t we just stick to the first plan? I’ll bring

admitted. “But if we want to do that, someone will have to be

to say this, mister, but I can’t.” I stood firm

you rather let your little babies die?” Mason leaned closer, wearing a malevolent smirk. “Just imagine the headlines: two little children brutally stabbed

you even dare think about it.” My anger

it.” He slowly pulled his face back. “And if you refuse to do as I say, I’ll

thought you loved

love revenge more than anything else. And you’re going to help me execute my revenge.

in this difficult situation. Why did he have to tell

response yet?” Mason chuckled. “I don’t even understand why you find this situation so challenging. You

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we would work together

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

“How?”

he replied curtly. “Just do as I

are you so heartless?”

replied with a shrug. “Being good only brings pain, just like when you were married to that scumbag.” He yawned, stretching his arms. “I need

reached the stairs, he stopped, turned

answered, feeling

way?” He smirked, gesturing

a long sigh and

just life, right? When you plan on doing something really mean and terrible, you’ll just get struck hard. I was the only one who placed myself in this goddamn situation. Revenge, revenge, revenge–just

so I had to team up with Mason, not knowing about his other intentions.

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

eyes only to find myself lying on the floor. I had fallen asleep after consuming too much alcohol last night. Riley was sitting nearby. With my eyes

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.