The Love From Vengeance

325: DARK CONFRONTATIONS

ANDRE’S POV

It had gotten dark, and everyone had left the company, going to their various homes. Ariel was the last one to leave, and before she did that, we had a little conversation- just a normal conversation, actually.

I was exhausted from work, and my thoughts added to my stress. I had no idea how this all started, but my head couldn’t shake the thoughts away.

Walking to my car, I spotted a light of another car coming in my direction. The light was pointed at me, giving me the feeling that whoever was in that vehicle came to see me. So I stood, waiting for the car to stop and for the driver to leave.

When the car finally stopped, I didn’t take my eyes off it. The lights were turned off, and I stood still, letting the scene unfold. To my surprise, a familiar face stepped out. And this was not just any familiar face. It was my brother Mason. He was the one

who burst out of the car.

He wore a leather jacket and grey jeans. His face had several scars, and he was definitely not as handsome as he used to be.

“Mason? Is that you?” I asked cautiously. It could be that my thinking had brought me

to this imaginary world.

“What are you seeing, brother?” He replied, opening his arms wide.

He took some steps forward, but it was like he had been injured in the leg. Of course he was. His encounter with Luke was definitely the cause of it. I was quite sure about

that.

“Where have you been all these days?” I quizzed him. His steps were getting closer

each second.

Just trying to build myself.” He shrugged, making that not–caring face. “You know, after what your friend’s lover did to me.

But you deserved it, don’t you?”

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“Ha!” He snapped his fingers. “You know about everything now. I noticed that.”

“Do you have to be so cruel?”

“Cruel? Is that what you call me now?”

“Yes. Mason! You murdered a five–year–old kid who literally had no idea about

anything.”

son

had nothing to do with any of your… problems with Luke. If you wanted revenge, you shouldn’t have touched any of the little

his fingers together. “Then it wouldn’t be a cool one.”

it, Mason? Seriously? That’s what you’re going to say?”

what Luke did

didn’t have to go ahead and kill his son. In case you

to me. He

with the whole of my heart. But Luke had to take her from me. So I followed the law: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Karma came knocking right on his door.

gazed at him in silence, scanning him pretty well.

were walking

Mason. “Let’s find somewhere more safe to talk

Mason followed promptly. We didn’t

while I drove.

stretch of road; an eerie silence hung heavy in the air, broken only by the occasional whisper of the wind. Weathered and

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everything whole, and It could leave someone with a

heading to?” Mason asked,

are you asking? Are you afraid?”

I’m not. I’m just curious.”

how the saying goes: curiosity

chuckled, still looking through the window. “That’s an old season.” He looked at me with his sardonic smile.

saying anything further. I only

either side, gnarled trees stood sentinel, their branches reaching out like skeletal fingers grasping at the void. Their twisted forms cast elongated shadows that danced across the road, adding to the sense

starless sky. Its silhouette loomed like a specter, beckoning you forth with an unsettling allure. I approached in that detection, and the incline became steeper, the road winding its way upwards like a serpent’s coil.

suffocating under its weight, with the air growing colder. It would look like it was chilling

still. The road stretched before us, disappearing into the darkness below.

I told Mason, not glimpsing at him.

he asked me. His tone indicated that he was frightened, but he didn’t

fixed

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give me that face,” he spat. “What the hell are we doing here? Why

my brows at

that ‘why are you scared shit,‘ ‘alright? I’m sick of

asked you twice,” I

“Bullshit, Andre! Bullshit!”

car. We are here to talk, nothing

the places in this city. You had to bring

a problem

me if I have a problem with it? If I don’t, do you think I’ll be saying