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 him get away

Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

hadn't taken any action yet

down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he couldn't imagine his

Lucas had tried his best to do

no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but

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

exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced

had been smoking

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

he couldn't leave this

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 heart patient, was admitted to

had died, he had

itself to him when Tatum

to understand what hatred meant to him.He had merely nodded

had then taken him to Thailand and

and taught him everything he needed to exact

drove Anna back to the

Brian turn around the moment

walk.You should go to

to go to the

the wooden tombstone that Ayla had

commit suicide, and

the reason behind

chance to make it up to her? Anna

the dim corner of the

her?" she asked, walking

didn't say anything.Instead, he took a

him, it didn't matter if he thought about Ayla

she is still alive, will you

know, although she didn't really

that Ayla had

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

had only been

his heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

has been two years.Even if Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that happened

intimacy between

still alive, and he still loved her,

and said, "We need to stop talking

off all his thoughts as he strode

arms around his waist from behind as she caught up

don't

to not think