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.

don’t,” Andre pleaded. I glanced back at him. He did not move forward. “I know you people are doing this for money, but please, you don’t have

a tough one. And I know you guys need money to offer your family. But will they really want this? They wouldn’t want you to get

you don’t know our

this. So I plead with you, just let us go. Trust me, you’ll see

you now,

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Andre’s eyes as he begged the men not to shoot. But they just laughed and insulted him, calling him weak

was no need for anyone to die. But they were adamant,

as I watched this scene unfold. I couldn’t lose Luke, not after witnessing what he had

for that hatred.

me. I had to

I yelled, surprising everyone around me. “I won’t let

men turned their 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

could see the conflict in their eyes.

trying to get up and

could pull the trigger, Andre jumped in front of me,

he collapsed to the

men. Luke managed to get up and tackle one of them to the ground while I ran to

him, trying to stop the

I’ll do anything to protect you, even

even with his injury. He stood strong for me, for Janice, for us.

hospital. I set

mercilessly.

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 at my little daughter, who stood in shock,

in that direction. I quickly grabbed

to me, surprised and

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