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?”

Find someone else to help you

chuckled. “You know what

we just stick to the first plan? I’ll bring

do that, someone will have to be by his side, really close

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

little babies die?” Mason leaned closer, wearing a malevolent smirk. “Just

you even dare think

about it.” He slowly pulled his face back. “And if you refuse to

thought you

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

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

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

1.”

we would work together to ensure he

You’ll get married to him, and then

“How?”

curtly. “Just do as

you so

with a shrug. “Being good only brings pain, just like when you were married to

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

answered, feeling

the way?” He smirked, gesturing towards

out a long sigh

I was the only one who

it all. I wanted revenge, so I had to team up with Mason, not knowing

LUKE’S POV

“Good morning, Luke.”

fallen asleep after consuming too much alcohol

well.

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