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

shot Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

any action yet because of

that if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he

years, Lucas had tried his best to do what

illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did

forget what you've been working towards all these

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

smoking

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

couldn't leave this

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

several men raped his mother while

had died, he had asked Lucas to

when Tatum

hatred meant to him.He had merely nodded his head in

Thailand and put him through a rigorous, harsh training

him

Anna back

as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the living

should go to bed early," Brian

to

wooden tombstone

commit suicide, and that Brian

was the reason behind

Anna followed him out and saw him standing there, still as

the backyard was

you still thinking about her?" she asked,

didn't say anything.Instead, he took a drag from

it didn't matter if he thought about Ayla or

she is still alive, will you still love

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

was the only one who knew that Ayla had returned on the same

said, throwing her a withering look as he put out the

and Ayla's marriage had only been signed on, but hadn't

in his heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that

thought that the intimacy between Ayla and

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

said, "We need to stop talking about her.Let's

his thoughts as he strode

after him, wrapping her arms around his waist

please don't think

effort to not think about Ayla, he would eventually forget about