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.

would not let him get away

shot Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

hadn't taken any action yet because

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

Lucas had tried his best to do what

asked.He knew that these illegal

you've been working towards all these years,"

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

smoking the

gut that Antawood,

couldn't

everything before he had passed away, he might

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

father had died, he had

him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition for

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

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

and taught him everything he needed

back to

asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment

going out for a walk.You should go to

just wanted to go

he stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had

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

the reason behind it

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

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

her?" she asked, walking up

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

if he

she is still alive, will you still

had to know, although she didn't really want

the only one who knew that Ayla

hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering look as he

and Ayla's marriage had only been signed on, but

heart, Ayla

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

intimacy between Ayla and Lucas

he still loved her,

and said, "We need to

all his thoughts as he strode

arms around his waist

don't

effort to not think about Ayla, he