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

"I see."

action yet because of

would definitely leave him.And he

two years, Lucas had tried his best to do

questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions

not forcing you, Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been working

done.He had forced Lucas into a

smoking the

of the window, realizing with a wrench of his gut that Antawood,

he couldn't leave

told him everything before he had passed away, he might

still been a helpless child at the time, being made to watch as several

father had died, he had asked Lucas to

Tatum had approached

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

Thailand and put him

stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact

Anna back to

Anna asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the living

should go to bed early,"

to

the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's

here and had tried to commit suicide, and that

was the reason behind it

Anna followed

the dim corner of the

thinking about her?" she asked,

anything.Instead, he took a drag

didn't matter if he thought about

alive,

had to know, although she didn't really

who knew that Ayla had returned on

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

been signed on, but

his heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything

the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

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

turned around and said, "We need to stop talking about her.Let's

thoughts as he strode

her arms around his waist from behind as she caught up

don't think

a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he