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.

not let him get away with

had shot Ayla, and

"I see."

any action yet because of

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

had tried his best to do what Tatum had asked of

these illegal transactions

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

had forced Lucas into a corner,

smoking the

with a wrench of his gut that Antawood, which was once his hometown, was now something he

he couldn't

him everything before he had passed

watch as several men raped his mother while his father,

his father had died, he had asked Lucas to

Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition for

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

him to Thailand and put him through a

stronger and taught him everything he

Anna back to the

Brian turn around the

walk.You should go to bed early," Brian

just wanted to

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

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

the reason

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

only light in the dim corner of the

still thinking about her?" she asked, walking up

didn't say anything.Instead, he took a drag from his

it didn't matter if he thought about Ayla or

she is still alive, will you still love

she didn't really want to

only one who knew that Ayla had returned on

said, throwing her a withering look as he put out the

only been signed on, but hadn't been

his heart, Ayla had become his

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

that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

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

around and said, "We need to

all his thoughts as he strode

arms around his waist from behind as she caught up to

don't

not think about Ayla,