The Love From Vengeance

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LUKE’S POV

I couldn’t believe my eyes. This little kid was threatening me with a gun. What was he even thinking? That I would get down on my knees and start begging him? Hell no

“Are you bein

you being serious right now?” I asked Todd, who still had his gun pointed at me.

“Todd, drop the gun,” Tiffany told him.

“Sis, this man don’t deserve you. Let’s just blow his brain off.”

“You do know who you’re messing with, right?” I arched one of my eyebrows.

“Who the fuck are you?” Todd barked, not taking his gun down.

“I don’t have to speak much. Just know that you don’t want to be messing with one of the notable billionaires in New Haven.”

“Just drop the gun for crying out loud!” Tiffany shrieked and snatched the gun from his hand. Well, that’s someone with senses.

Tiffany fixed her eyes on me. “I’m sorry, I had no idea my brother was going to….

“It’s okay,” I told her. “But what do you expect when you got a gangster by your side?”

“Bullshit!” Todd snarled, he glanced a his sister. “You’re apologizing to this man?”

“Just be quiet, will you?” Tiffany gave him a cold stare. He angrily turned his face away. Tiffany looked at me. “I’m not forcing anything here, Luke. You just have to tell me, you need to be honest with me.”

“Yes, and I am being honest here. I’m sorry for breaking your heart.”

“It’s okay,” she said underneath her breath.

“No it’s not,” I said immediately. “I was a fool, I did shit to you, caused pain, but I’m really sorry. I’ve been a terrible guy, no doubt about that. Ariel can testify, but lately, I’ve been changing. And now we can’t change the past. The deed has already been done, the pain has already filled our hearts, and we’ve been broken. We just have to look forward to the future, we got to focus on the present,

and

when I say this, I got you. I got this baby, and I’ll take full responsibility. But I can’t marry you.”

support. A child needs to know the father, right?” She laughed, even in the pain. “I’m not going to keep on chasing you. You have a wife, you have a life, and I have my child. Just promise to always come around, love and treat this child very well.” She

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“I promise. Now don’t

not crying.” She laughed faintly, a fake one though. “You can take care of yourself. I’ll be leaving now. We’re still

“Yeah,

it was all my fault. But I couldn’t marry her, wouldn’t be possible. A promise had already been made to my late grandfather.

of yourself, okay?” Tiffany told me after we had both let go of

glaring at me, boiling in anger just by watching

left with Todd. I felt kind of bad for

inside the house, walking straight to my room. I saw Ariel getting dressed, she looked

work, now?” I asked,

I kind of had the

be joining them

at herself in the room, now applying some lipstick. “The man that came to visit you, what did he do?”

Absolutely nothing,”

you sure about

Ariel

I feel like

just shook her head, ignoring me, walking towards the

to

goodbye,” she told me and left. Like,

ARIEL’S POV

some minutes on the road, I pulled up to my mother’s new house. No doubt, It had been a while since I had seen her. I didn’t know why we had that relationship of

car, making my way to the front door.

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could hear me

her voice