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 you carry out this silly

“You know what I

“Look, why don’t we just stick to the first plan? I’ll bring Luke’s company

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

but I can’t.” I stood firm in my disagreement. “I’d rather die than

little babies die?” Mason leaned closer, wearing a

think about it.” My anger

you refuse to do as I say, I’ll

you loved those

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

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 know what

response yet?” Mason chuckled. “I don’t even understand why you find this situation so challenging. You hate Luke and want to get revenge for the hurtful things he did to you.

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that we would work together to

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

“How?”

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

are you so heartless?” I

“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 this discussion

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

I answered, feeling

the way?” He smirked, gesturing towards

let out a long sigh

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 take a look at what

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

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

had fallen asleep after consuming too much alcohol last

well.

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. So why did she have to