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

and Brian considered

"I see."

hadn't taken any action yet because

he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely

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

questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put

you've been working towards all these

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

smoking the whole

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

couldn't leave

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, a heart patient, was admitted to

his father had died, he had

when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition

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

taken him to Thailand and put him through a

had made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to

back to the

asked as she watched Brian

going out for a walk.You should

wanted to go to the

by the wooden tombstone

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

was the reason behind

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

dim corner of the backyard was the

still thinking about her?" she

took a drag

didn't matter if he

still alive, will you still love

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

was the only one who knew that Ayla had returned on

throwing her a withering look as he put out the

had only been

heart, Ayla

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

thought that the intimacy between Ayla

he still loved her, he

said, "We need to stop talking about

his thoughts as

around his waist from behind as she

don't

to not think about Ayla, he