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

and

"I see."

any action

that if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he couldn't imagine his life without

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

would get whatever Tatum wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did

shouldn't forget what you've been

Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into a corner, step

had been smoking

realizing with a wrench of his gut that

couldn't

father hadn't told him everything before he had

as several men raped his mother while his father, a heart

died, he had asked Lucas to take

to him when Tatum had approached Lucas

to understand what hatred meant to him.He

taken him to Thailand and

him everything he needed

back to the

asked as she watched Brian turn around the

should go to

just wanted to

stood by the wooden tombstone

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

the reason

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

dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between

her?" she asked,

he took a drag from

matter if he

alive, will

know, although she didn't

knew that Ayla had returned on the

her a withering look as he

had only been signed on, but hadn't been

in his heart, Ayla had become his

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

between

and he still loved her, he would put all his efforts in getting her

turned around and said, "We need to stop talking about

thoughts as he strode furiously back to

after him, wrapping her arms around his

don't think about

a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he