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 him

had shot Ayla, and

"I see."

any action yet

down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he

tried his best to do what Tatum had asked

knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he

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

that was exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into

been smoking

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

couldn't leave this

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

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

when Tatum had

meant to him.He had merely

then taken him to Thailand and put him through a rigorous,

him everything

drove Anna back to the

she watched Brian turn

for a walk.You should

wanted to go

stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built,

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

reason behind

ever get the chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and

corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

about her?" she asked, walking

anything.Instead, he took a drag from

him, it didn't matter if he

alive,

to know, although she didn't really want to

that Ayla had returned on the

throwing her

only been signed on, but hadn't

in his heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that happened here," Anna

that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

that Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her, he would put all his

around and said, "We need

thoughts as

around his waist from behind as she caught up to

please don't think about

to not think about Ayla,