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.

Brian would not let him get

shot Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

action

would definitely leave him.And he

years, Lucas had tried his

wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in

shouldn't forget what you've been working

done.He had forced Lucas into

smoking the whole

wrench of his gut that Antawood,

couldn't leave

told him everything before he had passed away, he might not have suffered

as several men raped his mother while his father,

his father had died, he had asked

opportunity presented itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with

been too young to understand what hatred meant to

Thailand and put him through a

stronger and taught him everything

back to the

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

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

wanted to go to the

wooden tombstone that Ayla

had gone crazy living here and had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had

the reason behind

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

the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between his

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

say anything.Instead, he took a

it didn't matter if he

alive,

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

that Ayla had returned on the same flight

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

only been

in his heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

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

that the intimacy between

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

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

all his thoughts as he strode furiously

around his waist from behind

please don't think about

conscious effort to not think