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

to offer your family. But will they really want this? They wouldn’t want

up, you don’t know our

plead with you, just let

We kill all of you now, and we’ll

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to shoot. But they

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

tightly, hoping for nothing terrible as I watched this scene unfold. I couldn’t lose Luke, not

for that hatred.

this point, I made a decision. I couldn’t let these men harm the people around me. I had to do something, even if I had no strength. I’d do

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

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

their eyes. But then, one of them raised his gun and aimed

Luke shouted, trying to get up and

pull the trigger, Andre jumped in front of

he collapsed to the

of events took aback the men. Luke managed to get up and tackle one of them to the ground while I ran to Andre’s side.

did you do that?” I kneaded him, trying to stop the bleeding from

I’ll do anything to protect you, even if it means sacrificing

other men. He managed to knock their guns off, even with his injury. He stood strong for me, for Janice, for us. I was just lost in what he

the hospital.

mercilessly.

men once again; their attentions were not even on the ground. I looked at Andre, his eyes closed, recalling his words before he

on the guns and stood up, walking in that direction. I quickly grabbed

immediately, turning to me, surprised and terrified faces

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