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

shot Ayla, and

"I see."

taken any action yet

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

two years, Lucas had tried his best

wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal

what you've been

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

had been smoking the

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

couldn't

before he had passed away, he might not have

several men raped his mother while his father, a heart

died, he had asked Lucas to

to him when Tatum had approached Lucas

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

then taken him to Thailand and put him

and taught him everything he needed to

back to the

Anna asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the

going out for a walk.You should

just wanted to go to

wooden tombstone

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

was the reason behind it

make it up to her? Anna followed him

light in the dim corner of the backyard

still thinking about her?" she asked, walking up

he took a drag

him, it didn't matter if he

alive, will you still love

had to know, although she didn't really want to

that Ayla had returned on

your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering

only been signed

Ayla had become his

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

intimacy between Ayla and

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

need to stop talking about

as he strode furiously

his waist from behind as

please don't think

conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he