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?”

no way I’m marrying him. Find someone else to help you carry out this silly plan of

“You know what I

to the

we’re still going to bring it down,” Mason admitted. “But if we want to do that, someone will have to be by his side, really close to him.” Mason then looked at me. “And

say this, mister, but I can’t.” I stood firm in my disagreement.

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

dare think about

it.” He slowly pulled his face back. “And if you refuse

thought you loved

love revenge more than anything else. And you’re going to

so he had put me in this difficult situation. Why did he have to tell me to marry Luke? Oh gosh, I don’t even know what

You hate Luke and want

1.”

would work together to ensure

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

“How?”

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

are you so heartless?” I

life,” Mason replied with a shrug. “Being good only brings pain, just like when you were married to that scumbag.” He

reached the stairs, he stopped, turned around, and asked, “Is there any

answered,

the way?” He smirked, gesturing towards

a long sigh and slowly

mean and terrible, you’ll just get struck hard. I was the only one who placed myself in this goddamn situation. Revenge,

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

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

consuming too much alcohol last night. Riley

well.

She claimed to love me,