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 know that?”

him. Find someone else to help you carry out this silly

“You know what I can do,

to the first plan? I’ll bring

“But if we want to do that, someone will have to be by his side, really close to

stood firm in my disagreement. “I’d rather die

a malevolent smirk. “Just imagine the headlines: two little

even dare think about it.”

thinking about it.” He slowly pulled his face back. “And if you refuse to do as I say, I’ll have no other option but

you loved

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

to glare at him. He knew how much I loved my children, 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

don’t even understand why you find this situation so challenging. You hate Luke and

1.”

why we agreed that we would work

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

“How?”

curtly. “Just do as

you so heartless?” I

good only brings pain, just like when you were married to that scumbag.” He yawned, stretching his arms. “I need to get. some sleep.

stairs, he stopped,

answered, feeling

the way?” He smirked, gesturing towards

sigh and slowly walked in

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

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

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

asleep after consuming

well.

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 something so

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