The Love From Vengeance

182: I couldn’t

LUKE’S POV

Ariel kept on talking, and I did nothing but watch her. Yes, she was in so much pain, but now she was talking absolute nonsense. I had no idea what had entered her mind, but believe me, this was absolutely not to my liking. Yes, I felt sorry for her. But this needed to stop. I was just as hurt as she was. Well, not actually; the pain inside her was really intense, and I totally understood that. I had been in such a situation before.

“Okay, Ariel, can you please calm down? I might be quiet right now, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to let you keep on accusing me.”

“Oh, I’m just talking nonsense right now, huh? You’re going to deny this, won’t you?”

“Deny? Why would I even do that when I wasn’t the one responsible for your son’s death?”

“Shut up! I was told everything, including how you shot him. How you mercilessly took his life.”

“And you believed that?” I vocalized clamorously. “Where’s the evidence? Someone just told you sh 1, and you believed that?”

“Do I have a choice? It’s not actually surprising. I know how brutal you can be. And honestly, I didn’t even want to believe that, thinking Lukel was alive and safe. I’m in your arms. But now that you came out, he was dead–a bullet right in his head. What do you want me to believe?” Ariel cried, shaking her head. I felt so sorry for her.

“Look, Ariel. You’re getting things all wrong.” I spoke softly as I was about to touch her shoulder. Well, she shoved my fingers away. It hurt, and trust me, I didn’t like that. But what could I do?

“Don’t you dare try to touch me. I’m not wrong around here.”

“Can you please let me speak?”

“What do you want to say?”

I tried really hard to put up with this. “Just let me speak, please?”

going to start coming up

But I can’t still. believe that you’re telling me all this nonsense. Blaming me for your son’s death and accusing me of shooting him. You weren’t even in the building with us. You didn’t see the things that happened. You didn’t see the things I did, nor did you hear the words I said. You just met a stranger, and you’re following the words of that person? Come on, Ariel, you’re bigger than that. You shouldn’t be thinking like a

me now?”

to you,” I defended. “You need to listen to

I couldn’t

story. I tried saving your son; I wasn’t the one who killed him.”

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admit that they had done wrong. They’d always want to come up

you saying now? That I’m lying?”

obvious?” Her glare aggrandized. “After what I told you, you went ahead to kill my son, my

cleaned her eyes. Why did you do it, Luke?”

all the things I’ve been through, arguments and all that, this is the

off guard, giving me a hard slap. Second

then go on; keep hitting me. I genuinely have no idea what has gotten

We were both silent; I didn’t know if Ariel had gotten a change of mind or if the negative thinking was still there. All

you?” She asked me in a soft

you love me. Remember, you told me that?”

“When?”

did tell me something like that. But if you don’t love me, then why did you refuse to

you just need to

knife. I couldn’t believe that she still didn’t believe me. I watched. as she began to walk away, her head held high with determination. I wanted to go

did would change

words, but I didn’t want her to follow through with anything terrible. I wanted things to be great between us; I didn’t want hatred or any

with tears in her eyes, a group of policemen showed up, asking me if everything