The Substitute Bride: Making Memories Of Us (Lois Stone)

Lucas heard his phone ringing.It was late and there was only one person who would call him at this time.He answered the phone warily.

"Father."

"Have you returned to Antawood?" Tatum asked without preamble.

He had asked Lucas to go to Thailand but the latter had refused.

This time, he wanted to get done with solving the Brian issue now that Lucas had returned.

"Yes, I just arrived today."

Lucas knew that he couldn't hide this fact.He had tried his best to hide Ayla from Tatum for two years.

But maybe he couldn't do it anymore.

Lucas wondered what Tatum would do to Ayla once he knew the truth.

Tatum had used her once.He might do it again.

"How long will you be in Antawood this time? I shouldn't have to remind you of the issue each time.Do you want to insult the memory of your deceased parents by losing the Collins Group that rightfully belongs to you?"

Tatum had been feeding Lucas such ideas since Lucas' childhood.

That was also why Lucas hated Brian.

All Lucas had wanted was to get close to Brian by using Ayla and kill him.

But before that could happen, he had developed a huge crush on Ayla.He hadn't taken revenge for his family yet.

And if Ayla were to know why he had approached her, she might hate him.

But he didn't regret it.

When he began trying to put a ring on her finger, he had considered everything that might happen in the future and had plotted his plan out.

"I know that, Father.I will never forget it," Lucas said, nodding.

"Good.Brian's men are watching me.So I hope you will handle this as soon as possible,"

Tatum reminded him.

Tatum's TH Gang had suffered a heavy blow because of Brian.

If it hadn't been for the fact that Brian had quitted the drug transactions over the past two years, Tatum wouldn't have had the chance to get back into this business again.

But Tatum was too eager for money.

He had forgotten the simple fact that the higher he climbed, the heavier the fall would be.

would not let him get away with

and Brian considered

"I see."

action yet because

he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he

had tried his best to do what Tatum had asked of

questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a

what you've been working

what Tatum had done.He had

had been smoking the

looked out of the window, realizing with a wrench of his gut that Antawood, which was once his hometown, was now

couldn't

father hadn't told him everything before he had passed away, he might not

had still been a helpless child at the time, being made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father, a

died, he had asked Lucas to take

Tatum had

understand what hatred meant to him.He had merely nodded his head in

then taken him to Thailand and put him through

Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to

Anna back

are you going?" Anna asked as she watched Brian turn

a walk.You should go

to

stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had

had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her

the reason behind it

Anna followed him out and saw him standing there,

the backyard

thinking about her?" she

took a drag from

it didn't matter if

alive, will you

know, although she didn't really

one who knew that Ayla

answer your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her

been signed on, but

in his heart, Ayla had become

Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that happened here," Anna

that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas

Brian knew that Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her, he would put all

need to stop talking about her.Let's

his thoughts as

after him, wrapping her arms around his waist from

please don't think

effort to not think about Ayla, he would eventually