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

had shot Ayla, and

"I see."

any action yet because of

Ayla would

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

these illegal transactions

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

Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas

been smoking

gut that Antawood, which was once his

couldn't leave

told him everything before he had

several men raped his mother while his father,

his father had died, he had

him when Tatum

been too young to understand what hatred meant

taken him to Thailand and put him

and taught him everything he

drove Anna back to

watched Brian turn

a walk.You should go to bed early,"

to

wooden tombstone that Ayla

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

the reason behind it

ever get the chance to make it up to her? Anna

dim corner of the

about her?" she asked, walking up to

anything.Instead, he took a

it didn't matter if he thought about

she is still alive, will you still

to know, although she didn't really want to

knew that Ayla had returned on the

said, throwing her a withering look as

and Ayla's marriage had only been

in his heart, Ayla had

been two years.Even if Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have

thought that the intimacy between Ayla and

that Ayla was still alive, and he still loved

around and said, "We need to stop talking

as he

hurried after him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind as

don't think

think