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.

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

you guys need money to offer your family. But will they really want this? They wouldn’t want you to get involved in any

shut up, you don’t know

don’t. But I do know one thing: they won’t be in support of this. So I plead with you, just let us go. Trust me, you’ll see the changes in your life if you

seeing the changes. We kill all of you now, and we’ll

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not to shoot. But they just laughed and insulted him, calling him weak and a

for anyone to die. But they were adamant, their greed for money clouding their

this scene unfold. I couldn’t lose Luke, not after witnessing what he had done. The rage disappeared

for that hatred.

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

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

breath and continued, “I may have come here for revenge,

see the conflict in their eyes. But then, one of them raised his

to get up

Andre jumped in

as he collapsed to the ground.

and tackle one of

why did you do that?” I kneaded him,

protect you, even if it means

He managed to knock their guns off, even with his injury. He stood strong for me, for

the hospital. I set my eyes on

mercilessly.

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 looked

and stood up, walking in that direction. I quickly

surprised and terrified faces

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