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.

let him get away with

and Brian considered this

"I see."

action yet because

knew that if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he couldn't

tried his

knew that these illegal transactions would put him

you, Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've

was exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into a corner,

smoking the

gut that Antawood, which was once his hometown,

couldn't

his father hadn't told him everything before he had

been a helpless child at the time, being made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father, a heart patient, was admitted

died, he had asked Lucas to

when Tatum had approached Lucas with

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

then taken him to Thailand and put him through a

him everything he needed

back to the

asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment

going out for a walk.You should go to bed early," Brian

just wanted to go to the

he stood by the wooden tombstone that

gone crazy living here and had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her alive.But she had

the reason behind it

to her? Anna followed

only light in the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette

still thinking about her?" she asked, walking up to

took a drag from his

matter if he

is still alive, will you still

she didn't really want

only one who knew that Ayla had returned on

answer your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering look as he put

and Ayla's marriage had only been signed on, but hadn't been

his heart, Ayla had become

she might be with another man,

intimacy between Ayla and Lucas

alive, and he still loved her,

and said, "We need to stop talking

his thoughts as he strode furiously back to the

his waist from behind

don't

a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would eventually forget