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

had shot Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

taken any action yet because

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

his best to do what

no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup,

shouldn't forget what you've been working towards all these years,"

was exactly what Tatum had done.He had

been smoking the

of his gut that Antawood, which was

he couldn't leave

told him everything before he had passed

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

his father had died, he had asked Lucas to take

Tatum had approached Lucas with a

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

to Thailand and

stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact his

Anna back to the

as she watched Brian turn around the moment

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

wanted to

wooden tombstone that Ayla

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

was the reason

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

of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

her?" she asked, walking up

took a drag from his

him, it didn't matter if he

alive, will you still

had to know, although she didn't really

was the only one who knew that Ayla had returned

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

only been signed

Ayla had become his

has been two years.Even if Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that happened

intimacy between

was still alive, and he still loved

and said, "We need to stop talking

all his thoughts as he

around his waist

please don't think about

think about Ayla, he would eventually forget about