The Love From Vengeance

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ARIEL’S POV

Holding Janice, I couldn’t stop taking my eyes off Luke. The men had come out of nowhere and fired a gunshot at him. Luckily, the bullet went straight to his shoulder. I just hoped it couldn’t get worse

than that.

Luke fell to his knees, holding his shoulders. The pain was too much for him to bear.

“Luke!” I called his name loudly, and then I ran straight to him.

The men behind pointed their guns at us, ready to release more gunshots. But I wasn’t even giving them my attention.

I didn’t want to do this. I didn’t want to run towards Luke, making it look like I cared for him. But I couldn’t help it. Seeing him bring my daughter really brought this feeling within me. Something I couldn’t explain.

“It’s alright, Ariel. I’ll be fine,” Luke told me softly, holding his bleeding shoulder. You and Janice should leave before these people do something terrible to you guys.

“We can’t leave you,” I disagreed, looking into his eyes, and I had this worried expression.

“Just go. I told you, everything’s alright.”

“But if you die, it won’t be.”

“Why, huh? I thought you didn’t want me. I thought you came for revenge. So if I’m killed now, won’t you be satisfied?”

“Don’t say that, now. Can’t you see we’re in the middle of a terrific situation?”

“I can see that. But I just want you to be honest with me.”

“About what?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Okay, I think we’ve given you guys enough time to talk. Now it’s time to die,” one of the men spoke.

forward. “I know you people are doing this for money, but please, you don’t have to kill anyone. You can stop

guys need money to offer your family. But will they really

shut up, you don’t know

with you, just let us go. Trust me, you’ll

changes. We kill all of you now, and we’ll have enough money to feed ourselves and

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eyes as he begged the men not to shoot. But they just

reason with them, telling them that there was no need for anyone to die. But they were adamant, their greed for

lose Luke, not after witnessing what he had done. The rage disappeared after this,

for that hatred.

I couldn’t let these men harm the people around me. I had to do

everyone around me. “I won’t let you hurt them.”

attention to me, their guns still pointed at Luke and Andre. I took a deep breath and continued, “I may have come here for revenge, but seeing Luke with my

do. I could see the conflict in their

to get

the trigger, Andre jumped in front of me, shielding me from

watching him as he collapsed to the ground.

took aback the men. Luke managed to get up and tackle

why did you do that?” I kneaded him,

friend, remember? And I’ll do anything to protect you, even if it means sacrificing my life,” he replied weakly, his

with his injury. He stood strong for me, for

to be taken to the hospital. I set my eyes on

mercilessly.

my eyes down to the guns which were on the ground. I looked up at the men once again; their attentions were not even on the ground. I looked at Andre, his eyes closed, recalling his words before he zonked out. And I

up, walking in that direction. I quickly grabbed both guns from the ground and

and terrified faces they had at the

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