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

Ayla, and

"I see."

hadn't taken any action yet because

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

had tried his best to do

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

what you've been working

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

had been smoking the

his gut that Antawood, which was once his hometown, was now something

he couldn't

his father hadn't told him everything before he had passed away, he might not have suffered so

at the time, being made to watch as several

died, he had asked Lucas to take

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

hatred meant

Thailand and put him through

had made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to

drove Anna back to

she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the

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

just wanted to go to the

tombstone that Ayla

commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her alive.But

reason behind it

chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing there, still as a

only light in the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

still thinking about her?" she asked, walking

took a drag

didn't matter if he thought

alive, will

didn't

one who knew that Ayla had returned on the same flight

throwing her

only been

in his heart, Ayla had become his

has been two years.Even if Ayla is alive, she might be with another

intimacy between Ayla and Lucas

he still loved her, he would put all his efforts

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

off all his thoughts as

hurried after him, wrapping her arms around his waist

don't

a conscious effort to not think about Ayla,