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

shot Ayla, and

"I see."

action

that if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he couldn't imagine his life without

his best to do

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

shouldn't forget what you've been

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

smoking the

gut that Antawood, which was once his hometown,

couldn't leave this

before he had passed away, he might

still been a helpless child at the time, being made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father,

he

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

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

Thailand and put him through a

Lucas stronger and taught him everything

back to the

watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the living

walk.You should

wanted to go to the

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

to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept

the reason behind

to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing there,

of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between his

still thinking about her?" she asked,

say anything.Instead, he took a drag

it didn't matter if he thought about Ayla or

still alive, will you still love

she didn't really want to hear him

who knew that Ayla had returned

her a withering look as he put

only been signed on,

heart, Ayla had become

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

intimacy between Ayla and

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

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

off all his thoughts as he

after him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind as she

don't think about

conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he