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

know what I can

we just stick to the first plan? I’ll bring Luke’s company down before

do that, someone will have to be by his side, really close to him.” Mason then looked

stood firm in my disagreement.

a malevolent smirk. “Just

you even dare think about it.” My anger

refuse to do as I say, I’ll

thought you loved

me wrong, sweetheart, I 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 my revenge. Refuse to do so, and

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

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

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why we agreed that we would work

get married to him, and then we can proceed with our plan.”

“How?”

he replied curtly. “Just

you so heartless?”

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

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

I answered,

He smirked, gesturing

out a long sigh and slowly walked

was just life, 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

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

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

my eyes only to find myself lying on the floor. I had fallen asleep after consuming too

well.

believe I was really heartbroken 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