Chapter 190 Stop Thinking About the Impossible Again
Logan threw a glance at Luke and couldn’t help thinking how great it would be if Luke was telling the truth.
If Luke really managed to give up on Madeline, it would mean that they would finally be able to bring her back to Capitol to fulfill his lifelong dream. He would then be able to let her live in the big villa, wear pretty clothes, and eat good food…
The brothers had practically been with each other their whole lives. Hence, there were a lot of things they didn’t need to use words to understand one another.
Luke caught the look his brother was throwing at him, and he knew immediately what Logan was thinking. “Logan, I am speaking the truth. I have thought about it properly. I don’t think me and Maddie have a chance anymore. I—”
A knock on the door cut him off mid-sentence.
After Quinton marched over to open the door, they were greeted by the sight of Edward walking in with a medicine box. The first thing he did was bow to the owners of the house. “Young Master, Mrs. Hart,” he greeted.
Madeline stood up at that, and she urged, “Please check the wounds on my brother’s back.”
Upon hearing Madeleine address him as her brother, Luke glanced over at her with dark eyes that had an unusual glint in them.
It wasn’t as though he wanted to marry her.
He had always treated her like a younger sibling when they were still in Worrick.
However, he had wanted to bring her along when their uncle had come and offered to bring the brothers back to Capitol and carry out their revenge against their stepmother.
She, of course, had rejected him.
She said that the Taylors wouldn’t let her leave.
As a member of the family, she had an obligation to listen to the Taylors. With that, she couldn’t go with Logan and Luke.
Because of that, Luke felt unhappy.
Even though she was a Taylor, they had never treated her like family. Logan and Luke wouldn’t be able to know or do anything if the Taylors bullied her after they had left the country.
Madeline might be a Taylor, but she was Logan and Luke’s family.
She had told them before that they were the most important people to her, and that the Taylor Family wasn’t even 1 percent of how important the brothers were to her. She might have said all these because Luke had forced her to, but he knew that she meant every word she said.
They were her real family! The Taylors were mere horsesh*t!
However, it didn’t matter how hard he tried to persuade her. She was stubborn about not leaving.
He even went online to ask his hacker friends for ways he could bring her home.
His hacker friends knew he and Madeleine were not blood-related. According to one of his friends who knew that Luke and Madeleine had been very close together since childhood, due to the fact that they are not related to each other, there was no way for them to live together forever unless he married her.
That was the reason why he told her that he wanted to marry her.
However, she had rejected him.
Vexed, he asked for advice from his internet friends again. Their suggestion this time was for him to go past the point of no return with her since he and Madeline were close. By then, she would have no choice but to marry him.
And so he did as he was told. He snuck into her room in the middle of the night, and tried to do things that would seal the deal.
As a result, her trying to fight back had alerted Logan about what was going on.
Not only did he not succeed at taking her, but he also ended up being beaten up by his brother.
After Logan had apologized to her, he immediately decided to leave Worrick with Luke…
A lot of things happened after that as well.
The only difference between what happened before and after was that Madeline was no longer a part of the latter.
Luke regretted it.
He and his brother might have gotten back everything that was theirs in the first place after they went back to the Capitol, but his heart was always empty—it felt like he was missing something of utmost importance.
At that point in time, he knew that what he was missing was the woman who was no longer in his life.
He and Logan had gotten everything back, but they had lost Madeline in the process of it.
Their little family was only complete with the 3 of them in it, but it had all been ruined because of that mistake that he made that caused her to stay away from them.
He missed her terribly, but he did promise Logan that he wouldn’t go to her anymore.
He wanted to keep his promise to his brother.
That was why he wouldn’t have gone to Madeline if it wasn’t because of that call he received from Angie.
Her call gave him a reason to go look for her.
Madeline, who had told him that she would never get married her whole life, had ended up becoming Sebastian’s wife.
Luke was only here to make her pay for going back on her words. He didn’t intentionally break his promise to Logan.
He was suddenly reminded of the ‘point of no return’ talk he had with his hacker friends after he arrived at Dusktown.
He then thought that Madeline could surely marry him if she could get married to Sebastian.
As long as he could cross the line with her, he would have the chance to marry her and be with her forever.
However, she continued to refuse him even after she had been drugged into submission.
She even looked at him with those hatred-filled eyes when she warned him that she would forever despise and not forgive him if he dared try anything with her.
Hearing what she said, he was shocked.
It wasn’t as though he really wanted her as his wife. His only intention was to stay together as a family again like how they were in Worrick.
But she would have ended up hating him if he had forced himself onto her as she even swore to never forgive him.
What would be the point of him doing any of this, then?
He didn’t want her to hate him, and he didn’t want her to ignore him for the rest of their lives.
Eventually, he finally realized how wrong he had been, and so he promised everyone, including himself, that he would never force her into doing something like that anymore.
On top of him changing his mind, hearing Madeline call him her ‘brother’ had instantly transported him back to the time when the 3 of them had relied on each other to live in Worrick.
His eyes continued to shine as he looked at her. He was so deep in his thoughts that he didn’t even feel a bit of pain when Edward gave him an anesthetic injection and sewed his wounds close.
After looking at her for a little while longer, he turned his head toward Logan and said, “Logan, I want to stay in Maddie’s house as her guest.”
“…You!” Logan hissed. “You better stop having ideas again!”
Logan was baffled by how thick-skinned his younger brother was. Not only did Luke kidnap the children of Harts’ Young Master. He even tried to force himself onto Sebastian’s lawful wife. And now he wants to stay here?! Logan fumed. Does he think of Mr. Hart as a pushover?
Just from his actions alone, there was no way Sebastian would allow Luke to stay at their house.
“I don’t have any ideas.” Luke peeked at Madeline. He suddenly realized how he could only stay for a few short days if he didn’t have a good reason for his request. So, he quickly added, “I want to stay by Maddie’s side to keep her safe. I will be her bodyguard.”
Logan was speechless at first, and then he suddenly roared, “What the hell are you thinking? Follow me back to the Capitol tomorrow!”
“No! I want to be Maddie’s bodyguard!” His eyes twinkled as he looked at her. “Maddie, I only wanted to marry you because my friend told me that only married couples get to stay together forever. You rejected my proposal, and there is no way I would force you into it again because you will end up hating me. And I don’t want you to hate me! This is why I want to be your bodyguard. We can stay together forever this way, too! I don’t mind if you don’t marry me as long as we can always be together!”
Sebastian quietly listened to Luke’s ridiculous words. His subordinates had found a psychiatric diagnosis certificate that belonged to Luke. Sebastian had thought that it was a fake that the brothers produced in case they needed it when they were taking their revenge on their stepmother. But from what he was seeing now, it seemed that he had thought wrong—Luke might be a real whacko!
