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.”

don’t

to

what I can

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

if we want to do that, someone will have to be by his

firm in my disagreement. “I’d rather

would you rather let your little babies die?” Mason leaned closer, wearing a malevolent smirk. “Just imagine the headlines: two

you even dare think about it.” My

face back. “And if you refuse

you loved

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

knew how much I loved my children, so he had put me in

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

1.”

would work together

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

“How?”

questions,” he replied curtly. “Just do

you so heartless?” I

just like when you were married to that scumbag.” He yawned, stretching his arms. “I need to get. some sleep.

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

I answered,

way?” He smirked,

let out a long sigh

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

influential, I thought I had it all. I wanted revenge, so I 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 too much alcohol last night.

well.

a thing. She claimed to love me, didn’t she?