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

and

"I see."

any action yet because

would definitely leave him.And he couldn't imagine his life without

Lucas had tried his

would get whatever Tatum wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he

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

exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into a corner, step by

been smoking the

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

he couldn't

father hadn't told him everything before he had passed away, he

to watch as several men raped his mother while his

had died, he had asked Lucas to take

opportunity presented itself to him when Tatum had

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

him to Thailand and put him through a rigorous, harsh training

taught him everything he needed to

back to the

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

out for a walk.You should go to bed

to go to

wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's heart

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

reason behind

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

dim corner of the backyard was the

about her?" she asked, walking up

say anything.Instead, he took a drag from

it didn't matter if he thought

she is still alive, will you

although she didn't really want to

the only one who knew that Ayla had returned on the

won't answer your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her

had only been signed on, but

Ayla had become

if Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have

that the intimacy between Ayla

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

said, "We need

off all his thoughts as he strode furiously back

around his waist from behind

please don't think about

not think about Ayla, he would eventually forget