Chapter 179 He Looked Down on It
“I am not that magnanimous,” Luke replied in a cold tone. “I only want Maddie to be my wife. It’s meaningless for me to live on anymore if I can’t marry her.”
Hearing that, Logan felt his headache coming. My brother is really ill. He has a mild manic disorder.
Logan spent a lot of time and effort to convince his brother to walk away from his own obstinacy toward Madeline, but everything had now gone down the drain.
Luke hadn’t mentioned Madeline in a long time as if he’d completely forgotten about her, and Logan was especially careful not to bring it up before him. After such a long time, why did Luke suddenly think of Maddie again?
With this in his mind, he posed the question to his brother, “Isn’t that you’ve forgotten about Maddie, Luke? We’re living well, isn’t it? Why did you suddenly think of her again? You promised me that you would never contact her nor pay attention to her news again. How did you find out that she married Sebastian?”
“Angie told me,” Luke replied nonchalantly. “She told me that Maddie is married to Sebastian.”
“Angie…” Logan’s gaze flashed. Suppressing his hatred and disgust toward Angie, he continued, “Luke, calm down and think. Angie was Maddie’s enemy, and she wouldn’t do anything beneficial to Maddie. That was why she told you about Maddie’s matters, for you to harm Maddie. Do you want to help her in doing so?”
“I would never harm Maddie! No one loves her more than me. As long as she’s with me, I’ll make her the happiest person on earth,” Luke replied.
“Luke, stop acting as if everything will go as planned.” Logan worked hard to keep his frustration under control and to appear calm. “Maddie dislikes you, Luke. She is not interested in marrying you. If I find you another woman and tell you that she loves you more than anyone else in the world and will treat you well, do you want to marry her?”
“No,” Luke answered. “I’ll marry no one other than Maddie.”
“That’s right. You’re unwilling to marry someone you don’t love. That’s the same for Maddie. She doesn’t want to marry someone that she doesn’t love too,” Logan patiently persuaded. “She has no feelings for you, Luke. Don’t force upon others what you are unwilling to accept yourself. Marrying someone that you don’t love is difficult for you, and that’s the same for Maddie too. She’ll suffer if she marries someone she doesn’t want to. Do you want to see her suffer?”
Hearing that, Luke pursed his lips and stubbornly insisted, “She’ll grow to like me! We grew up together and lived together previously. At that time, we were happy every day. She likes me!”
To that, Logan replied, “That was kinship, not love! Luke, don’t do silly things now. At least Maddie still treats you as her brother and her family. If you hurt her, she would regard you as her enemy. Do you want to be her enemy?”
Gripping his phone tightly, Luke pursed his lips again and replied, “It’s too late…”
Logan immediately frowned. “What do you mean by this? What have you done?”
A frustrated Luke squinted his brows and said, “Logan, don’t be bothered about this. I can handle my own issue.”
“Luke Adams!” Logan yelled. “I’m your brother. How could I not be bothered by what you do? I don’t want you to do something that you would regret for the rest of your life. Tell me, what have you done to Maddie?”
Luke thought of Maddie, who was now in the bedroom, and his Adam’s apple moved up and down. With his hoarse voice, he answered, “I did nothing…”
“Turn on your video now!”
Logan hung up the call after uttering these three words. Within seconds, he sent an invitation for a video call.
Luke did not want to answer it. However, he had always listened to Logan and couldn’t do otherwise now. Thus, he accepted the video call.
Logan was standing behind his large office table and looking sternly at Luke via the screen. “Tell me, Luke. What have you done to Maddie?”
“Nothing…” Luke did not dare to look into Logan’s eyes.
Seeing that, Logan looked at him for a brief moment. Then, he suddenly pressed his left palm against the table, grabbed the blade that was on the table, and stabbed his palm hard.
The blade sliced through his palm and stroked the table. His face immediately went pale in pain with cold sweats appearing on his forehead.
Luke was stunned. He was dazed for a moment before he yelled, “Logan! What’re you doing?”
“I said I am not going to let you do things that you would regret forever!” Logan looked at him with a dim gaze. “Luke, I want you to know my determination on this. Maddie saved our lives; she is our savior. If you hurt her in any way that I can’t amend, I can only die to atone for your sin.”
Then, he stared into Luke’s eyes and added, “You know I will do whatever I’ve said, right?”
Yes. Logan was right—he was someone who abided by his words.
Logan appeared to be gentle and elegant, having a nice temper. Yet, how would someone with a nice temper led Luke to recover their inheritance from that ruthless stepmother of theirs?
Logan was over and above Luke in terms of plot, tricks, and even ruthlessness. However, he was different from Luke, in that Luke only cared about Madeline and Logan in the entire world whereas Logan still loved this world.
Except for his brother and Madeline, everything in the world was filthy to Luke whereas Logan remained convinced that the world’s bright sides outweighed its dark sides.
He had always told Luke that if he was kind to the world, it would repay him with light and hope.
That was exactly what Luke looked down upon.
As long as he was kind to the world, it would repay with light and hope, Logan said?
B*llshit! Wasn’t he kind enough to Madeline? He would give her his entire heart, but she was still unwilling to marry him.
He hated this world. If it weren’t for his brother and Madeline, he would have long been dead.
Yet, he was Logan’s only kin now and Logan would be grieving for him if he died. Besides, he wanted to marry Madeline.
They could be together forever if he could marry her. Then, they could stay together forever, just like how they were when they were younger.
That would be the most wonderful thing on earth.
It was because of both Logan and Madeline that he remained living in this dirty world.
But now, Logan was threatening Luke with his life to forbid him from doing anything to Madeline.
How could he marry her if he didn’t do anything? He had everything planned out. A man like Sebastian would never accept a woman who had been tainted before.
