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

Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

action yet

Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And

the past two years, Lucas had tried his best to do

knew that these illegal transactions would

shouldn't forget what you've been working towards

Tatum had done.He had

smoking the

a wrench of his gut that Antawood, which

he couldn't leave this

everything before 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 had asked Lucas to take

him when Tatum

meant to him.He had merely nodded his

him to Thailand and put him through a rigorous,

him everything he needed to

Anna back

are you going?" Anna asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the

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

wanted to go

the wooden tombstone that

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

the reason behind

make it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing there, still

dim corner of the backyard

thinking about her?" she asked, walking up to

anything.Instead, he took a drag

matter if he thought about Ayla or

she is still alive, will you still

to know, although she didn't

that

throwing her a withering look as he put out the

only been signed

Ayla had become

alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that

the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

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

said, "We need to

thoughts as he strode

around his waist from behind

please don't think

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