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.

would not let him get away with

shot Ayla, and Brian considered this

"I see."

hadn't taken any action

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

Lucas had tried his best to do what Tatum

Tatum wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions

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

Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into

had been smoking the

out of the window, realizing with a wrench of his gut that Antawood, which was once his

he couldn't leave this

him everything before he had passed away, he might

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

his father had died, he had

opportunity presented itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition for

had been too young to understand what hatred meant to

then taken him to Thailand and

made Lucas stronger and taught him

back to

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

a walk.You should go to bed early,"

just wanted to go to the

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

commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her

the reason behind

he ever get the chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him

the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

her?" she

anything.Instead, he took a drag from

didn't matter if

alive, will you still

had to know, although she didn't really want to hear

only one who knew that

your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a

been signed on,

his heart, Ayla

with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that happened here," Anna

thought that the intimacy between Ayla

knew that Ayla was still alive, and he still

"We need to stop talking about her.Let's

thoughts as he strode furiously back to the

wrapping her arms around his waist from behind as

please don't think

Brian made a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would