The Love From Vengeance

178 MONSTER

ARIEL’S POV

on my way to Andre’s company, my mind was racing with millions of thoughts and thousands of questions, since I was extremely worried at the moment. Panicking as hell, hoping for no hope to be

lost.

My phone started ringing. I didn’t even want to glance at it, but I just decided to, and it was a good thing I did that. Mason was the one who was calling. Now I just hoped that he wanted to put an end to all of this madness, just like the scenes that took place in my goddamn imagination.

After parking my car, I answered the phone call. “Mason, you son of a

“Hush Ariel. You don’t have to be so rude to me. A while ago, you were begging for your children’s safety.”

“Yes, so please tell me, where are my kids? Where’s Lukel and Janice?”

“Hold on a minute; I thought you wanted to start this conversation in a rude way. What happened? You changed your mind?”

“I don’t have time for all this, Andre.”

“Oh, you do, Ariel. You have plenty of time for this. Well, not plenty of time, actually. Since your adorable twins will be…” He paused right there.

“Will it be what?” I asked immediately. “Don’t tell me you’re planning to murder them.”

“That was actually the plan in the first place, since you refused to follow through with our plan.

“For crying out loud, Mason, I can’t do that to Luke. You can say I’ve fallen in love with him or whatever; that’s not my concern. I just can’t see him go down like that.”

Mason chuckled, “You became a fool for love,”

about you, huh?”

a fool like you,” he said bitterly.

a monster, Mason. You became a monster for love, am I not right? Since you blamed Lake for killing your girlfriend, you craved vengeance, and you had

up!”

to become so bitter all in the name of vengeance. Now you just Want to end

are your kids!”

are my children, and they’re Luke’s children as well. But

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have nothing to do with this. If you want to hurt anyone, Luke and I are right. here. You can let the little ones go.”

consequences of their father’s actions? It’s been happening since the dawn of time. Generations curse, parents‘ mistakes, so much shit, and now you’re telling me this? Come on,

monster,” I spat. “Your heart is filled with nothing but darkness, and now you only want to do evil so

actually nice, coming from the lady shit he did to her.”

wanted to ruin her ex–husband

that shit in the end, did I?” I defended. “It’s because I’m not a monster like you. Even when I wanted revenge, my heart had to stop me. Yes, Mason, my heart had to stop doing anything stupid. I won’t be able to live with myself if

to hell, bitch!” Mason barked

something, Mason. Would your lover want this right now? Would Sofie want to see this evil side of you–extremely heartless, not caring about other people? Would she want you to take the lives of two innocent children? Do you think she’ll be

you dare mention her name? You don’t

I don’t know her. But I know she can never be this heartless. She wouldn’t

okay?!” Mason

the truth, Mason. It’s the truth, and I just want you to change. Put an end to all of this, forget about vengeance, and move on. I believe Sofie will be happy

don’t you dare mention her

Mason. Please do

but

up! Shut up! Shut up! Just shut up, Ariel! Stop calling her name like you know

guess

where your children

are you talking about?”