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.”

think i don’t know that?”

to help

simply chuckled. “You know what I

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

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

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

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

you even dare think about it.” My

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

thought you loved

And you’re going to help me execute my revenge. Refuse to do so, and you’ll find yourself attending your children’s funeral. So, it’s your

he had put me in this difficult situation. Why did he have to tell me

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

1.”

we agreed that we would work together to ensure he

exclaimed. “And that’s precisely what we’re doing here. You’ll get married

“How?”

replied curtly. “Just do as I say,

are you so

Mason 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 to get. some sleep. We’ll continue

stopped, turned around, and asked, “Is there any room

answered,

lead the way?” He smirked, gesturing towards the

let out a long sigh and

mean and terrible, you’ll just get struck hard. I was the only

to team up with Mason, not

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

opened 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.

well.

last night that 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