Chapter 180 Hate Him
Once Luke did the deed with Madeline, she would be his. Sebastian would definitely abandon her by then.
This couldn’t have happened before because she didn’t want to marry anyone, but now that she was willing to marry, she had to marry Luke.
So, if Sebastian were to leave Madeline, Luke could marry her.
That was his plan. However, Logan was now forbidding him from enacting that plan. If Luke didn’t give up, Logan would take his own life.
Logan might look calm and gentle, but he always kept his word—that was a fact.
What if Luke followed through with his plan and his brother found out about it? Logan might feel so guilty that he would commit suicide as an apology.
It was either the only living family Luke had or the woman whom he wanted to marry. What should he do?
Logan silently stared at Luke with eyes as cold as ice.
For a moment, Luke watched the cold sweat drip down Logan’s forehead and the wound on Logan’s palm bleed. Finally, he looked down and said, “Alright. I get it…”
Logan let out a sigh of relief. He had been so afraid Luke had gone so mad that he wouldn’t even listen to Logan’s advice.
Luke always kept his word when it came to promises made to Logan.
“Luke, where are you now?” Logan softly asked. “Tell me the address and I’ll be there.”
He glanced at Logan’s left hand. “Go take care of that wound first.”
“Tell me where you are first,” Logan insisted.
With a frown, Luke told Logan where he was. “I want to watch you clean and dress that wound.”
In response, Logan shook his head in exasperation and pulled the blade out of his palm.
Luke frowned harder upon seeing the ugly state of the wound. “Logan, you once told me we must cherish our bodies. You taught me that, yet you don’t do as you say.”
“To kill someone, you must first destroy his soul…” Logan stated. “Physical wounds may heal, but a damaged heart can never be cured. Luke, do you want Maddie to think of you as her enemy? Do you want her to hate her forever and never forgive you?”
Luke didn’t respond. Instead, he merely looked away with pursed lips.
Honestly, Logan knew Luke didn’t want that to happen even without an answer.
In Luke’s mind, Logan and Madeline were the only two people in this world who he cared about. He was deeply in love with Madeline. Thus, there was no way he would want Madeline to hate him or to think of him as her enemy.
“Listen to me, Luke,” Logan soothed. “The only difference between being spouses and being siblings is the way you show your affection for each other. As long as Maddie loves you and cares about you, it doesn’t matter if you’re just a brother to her, right?”
“It matters!” Luke loudly objected. “Only lovers will stay together forever. Siblings cannot. Since I want to live together with Maddie for the rest of our lives, I must marry her.”
Luke’s words rendered Logan speechless and his head hurt more than his palm did at this moment. “Then again, Maddie won’t love you if you force her to be with you. Not only will you not get what you want, you’ll also become her enemy and she’ll hate you for the rest of your lives! Then, she won’t ever feel happy and warm when she thinks of you. She’ll only feel hatred and disgust for you. When she sees you in the future, she’ll look at you with vengeful eyes. She won’t even be worried for you or even talk to you! Instead, you will be the enemy that she wishes she could stay away from forever! Do you really want that to be your relationship with Maddie?”
By the end of Logan’s speech, Luke was hanging his head low and his knuckles were clenched tightly.
Of course, Luke didn’t want that to happen. He wanted Madeline to smile at him, to love and care for him like she did before.
What if things happened just as Logan said they would? Madeline would be physically his, but she would hate him. Even if she was together with him, she wouldn’t smile at him or care about him again. Instead, she would look at him with hatred burning in her eyes. What would be the meaning in marrying Madeline then?
“P-Perhaps she won’t hate me,” Luke muttered in a voice so weak that he sounded like a helpless child. His face was ghastly pale. “I love her so much… I’ll be good to her, so how can she hate me?”
Logan sighed. “Put yourself in her shoes. There is a woman who is exceptionally nice to you. You don’t love her, but she loves you. So, she’ll pull all the tricks she can to have you. Will you love her, take her as your wife, and spend the rest of your life with her just because of that?”
“I won’t!” Luke scoffed with disgust. “I would kill her!”
“It’s the same situation,” Logan said. “If you have Maddie through pulling tricks, she will also hate you to the point where she wants to kill you.”
Logan’s words were like a bucket of ice to the blazing fire within Luke. For a few long moments, he lowered his head and pondered hard before he eventually responded in a low voice, “I see… I was wrong to think what I did.”
When Logan heard Luke say that, he was ecstatic because he had finally persuaded Luke.
He was so afraid that Luke would keep going until the bitter end, that he would ignore Logan’s words and stubbornly insist on his own.
Using his life as a threat was only a temporary measure. Who knew if Luke might suddenly go mad one day and continue to bother Madeline?
The only solution was to completely dissuade Luke from this idea by making Luke acknowledge how bad of an idea it was. Only then would he go back to his usual ways of drawing a clear boundary and sticking to it.
At that, Logan let out a sigh of relief. He ended the call and asked his assistant to call for a doctor.
The wound in his palm was so deep that it needed stitches.
However, Luke refused to let the call be dropped. He insisted on watching the wound be treated.
When Logan’s injury was finally stitched up and bandaged, someone knocked on the door to the room Luke was in.
“Go away!” Luke impatiently shouted.
Liam’s voice was audibly trembling as he said through the door, “Sir, Miss Maddie doesn’t seem to be doing so well…”
“What?” Luke hurriedly ended the call and strode out of the room.
As soon as he opened the door, he noticed how terrible Madeline looked.
Curled up on the bed was Madeline moaning and groaning in pain.
“Maddie? What’s wrong?” Luke asked as he dashed over to her.
Madeline’s face was bright red with a fever as she was covered in a sheen of sweat.
She initially had her eyes closed. When she heard Luke’s voice, she forced herself to open her eyes to look at him as she mustered all her strength to spit out, “Scram!”
All Luke could see in her eyes was disgust and hatred.
It made his body freeze and his eyes to widen.
It was then that he recalled what his brother had told him just now. Logan had said Maddie would despise Luke if he forced himself on her.
Everything he had done was for Maddie to accept him, love him, and stay with him as his wife.
If all that he had done didn’t pull him and Maddie closer and instead made Maddie detest him, what was the point?
No.
He couldn’t have Maddie hate him.
He also couldn’t stand having Maddie look at him with revulsion.
He wanted to be someone whom Maddie liked, not her enemy!
“I’m sorry,” he mumbled as he sat down beside Madeline. “Logan has just lectured me. I know now what I’ve done is wrong. Maddie, don’t be angry with me, please?”
Hearing that only made Madeline pissed beyond belief.
This happened every single time. Whenever Luke made a mistake, he would act as innocent as a child while apologizing and begging for forgiveness. Yet, after all that, he would still make the same mistake.
If she weren’t weak from the agonizing pain, she would have kicked Luke out of the room right away!
