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 know

I’m marrying him. Find someone else to help you carry out this silly plan

know what I can

stick to the first plan? I’ll bring Luke’s company down before you know

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

to say this, mister, but I can’t.” I stood firm in my disagreement. “I’d rather die than become

closer, wearing a malevolent smirk. “Just imagine the headlines: two little children brutally stabbed

you even dare think about

“And if you refuse

you

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

He knew how much I loved my children, so he had put me in this difficult situation. Why did he

situation so challenging. You hate Luke and want to get revenge for the hurtful things

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we would work together to

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

“How?”

ask questions,” he replied curtly. “Just

so

“Being good only brings pain, just like when you were married to that scumbag.” He yawned,

the stairs, he stopped,

answered,

He smirked, gesturing towards the

sigh and slowly walked in

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 take a look at what that word has brought

had it 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 it had

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

my 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

well.

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