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.

not let

and Brian considered this

"I see."

any action yet because

if he took Brian down, Ayla would

tried his best to do what Tatum had asked

would get whatever Tatum wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did not

forcing you, Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been working towards all these years," Tatum

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

been smoking the whole

a wrench of his gut that Antawood, which was once his hometown, was

couldn't

he had passed

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

had died, he

itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition for

too young to understand what hatred meant

Thailand and put him through

made Lucas stronger and taught him everything

Anna back to the

she watched Brian

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

just wanted to go to

by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built,

crazy living here and had tried to commit suicide, and

was the reason behind

to her? Anna followed him out

corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

thinking about her?" she asked, walking up

anything.Instead, he took a

it didn't matter if he thought about Ayla or

she is still alive, will you still love

to know, although she didn't

only one who knew that Ayla had

won't answer your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering look as he

been

his heart, Ayla

Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or

intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her, he would put all his efforts in getting her

around and said, "We need to stop talking

as

his waist from behind

please don't think

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