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.

let him get

shot Ayla, and

"I see."

any action yet because of

took Brian down, Ayla would definitely

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

knew that these illegal transactions

you've been working towards all these years,"

done.He had forced Lucas

smoking the whole

window, realizing with a wrench of his gut that Antawood, which was once his hometown, was now something

couldn't

had passed

several men raped

he had asked Lucas to

to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a

been too young to understand what hatred meant to him.He had merely

taken him to Thailand and put

him everything he needed to exact his

back

watched Brian turn around the moment they

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

to

wooden tombstone that Ayla had

had gone crazy living here and had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her alive.But she had disappeared in the

the reason behind

it up to her? Anna followed him

of the backyard was the

still thinking about her?" she

took a drag

didn't matter if he thought about Ayla

still alive, will you still love

to know, although she didn't

the only one who knew that Ayla

Brian said, throwing her a withering look as he put out

had only been signed

Ayla had become his legitimate

might be with another

that the intimacy between Ayla and

Brian knew that Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her, he would put all his efforts in

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

all his thoughts as he strode furiously back

hurried after him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind

please don't think about

to not think about Ayla, he would eventually forget about