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

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

chuckled. “You know what I can

why don’t we just stick to the first plan?

if we want to do that, someone will have to be by his side, really close to him.” Mason then looked at me. “And that person

can’t.” I stood firm in

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

even dare think

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

thought you

truth is, I love revenge more than anything else. 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

I loved my children, so he had put me in this difficult situation.

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

1.”

agreed that we would work together to

doing here. You’ll get married to

“How?”

questions,” he replied curtly. “Just

so

that’s just life,” Mason replied with a shrug. “Being good only brings pain, just like when you were married to that scumbag.”

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

I answered,

lead the way?” He smirked, gesturing

out a long sigh and slowly walked in

hard. I was the only one who placed myself in this goddamn

had to team up with Mason, not knowing about his other

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

lying on the floor. I had fallen asleep after consuming

well.

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