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

shot Ayla, and Brian considered this

"I see."

any action yet

down, Ayla would definitely

Lucas had tried his best to do

these illegal transactions would

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

that was 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

he couldn't

hadn't told him everything before he had passed

the time, being made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father, a

had died, he had asked Lucas to

Tatum had approached

been too young to understand what hatred meant

to Thailand and put him

had made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to

drove Anna back

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

should go to bed early,"

just wanted to go to the

stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's

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

the reason

get the chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw him

only light in the dim corner of the backyard

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

he took a drag from

didn't matter if he thought

still alive,

know, although she didn't really want to

one who knew that Ayla had returned on the same flight

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

marriage had only been

his heart, Ayla

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

that the intimacy between Ayla and

Ayla was still alive, and he still

said, "We need to stop talking about

all his thoughts as he strode furiously

arms around his

don't think about

think about Ayla, he would eventually