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

Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

any action

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

the past two years, Lucas had tried his best to do

asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did not

you've

was exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into a

been smoking

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

couldn't leave

before he had passed away, he might not have suffered

made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father, a heart patient,

died, he had asked Lucas

to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with

had been too young to understand what hatred meant

then taken him to Thailand and put him through

Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact

Anna back to

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

going out for a walk.You should go

wanted to go

the wooden tombstone

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

was the reason

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

the backyard was the cigarette flickering between his

about her?" she asked,

he took a drag from

it didn't matter if he thought about Ayla

still alive, will you still

didn't

that Ayla

said, throwing her a withering look as

had only been signed on, but hadn't

his heart, Ayla had become

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

that the intimacy between Ayla

was still alive, and he still loved her, he would put all his efforts in getting her

turned around and said, "We need

as he strode furiously back to

arms around his waist from

please don't

think about Ayla, he would eventually forget about