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 with

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

insulting me

just trying to make things clear to you,” I defended. “You need to listen to my side

I couldn’t

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

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he or she is a murderer. No one would want to admit that they had done wrong. They’d always want to come up with different lies, just to get themselves out of the

saying now? That I’m

I told you, you

lovely son.” Ariel shook her head in tears. She sniffled, and then she cleaned her eyes. Why did you do it, Luke?”

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

a hard slap. Second time she was doing this. It

then go on; keep hitting me. I genuinely have no idea what has gotten into your head. But trust me, I didn’t do anything. I’m not the one responsible for your son’s death. Believe me when I say this;

saying anything, and it was as if we were the only people present at the moment, like we were the only souls in the world. We were both silent; I didn’t know if Ariel had gotten a change of mind or if the

She asked me in a soft tone, not taking her eyes

Remember, you told me

“When?”

if you don’t love me, then why did you refuse

to you. But you just need to know, and I’ll make

walk away, her head held high with determination. I wanted to go after

would change that.

away, I couldn’t help but feel sorry this pain was washing over me. She was really serious about her words, but I didn’t want her to follow through with anything terrible. I wanted

looking at Ariel as she walked away to get Luke with tears in her eyes, a group of policemen showed up, asking me if everything