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 get away

and Brian considered

"I see."

any action

Ayla would definitely leave him.And he couldn't imagine his

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

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

you, Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been

what Tatum had done.He had

been smoking the whole

looked out of the window, realizing with a wrench of his gut that Antawood,

he couldn't leave this

father hadn't told him everything before he had passed away,

several men raped his mother while his father, a heart patient, was admitted to

had died, he had

opportunity presented itself to him when Tatum had approached

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

to Thailand and put him through a rigorous,

had made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact his

Anna back to

she watched Brian turn around

walk.You should

to go to

the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's

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

reason

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

only light in the dim corner of the backyard was

her?" she

say anything.Instead, he took a drag

matter if he thought about

alive, will you still

had to know, although she didn't really want to hear him say

one who knew that Ayla had returned

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

only been signed on,

Ayla

she might be with another man, or she might have

that the intimacy between Ayla

alive, and he still loved her, he would put all

need to stop talking

thoughts as he strode

after him, wrapping her arms around his waist from

please don't think about

conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would eventually