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.

let him get away with

had shot Ayla, and Brian considered this

"I see."

action yet because of

if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave

his best to do what Tatum had

illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he

what you've been working towards all these years,"

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

been smoking the whole

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

couldn't leave this

everything before he had passed away, he might not have suffered so

made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father, a heart patient, was

father had died, he had asked Lucas

when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition

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

Thailand and put him

had made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to

Anna back

asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered

a walk.You should go to bed early,"

wanted to go to

tombstone that Ayla had built,

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

the reason

chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him out

corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

about her?" she asked,

took a drag from his

if he thought about Ayla or

is still alive, will

she didn't really want to hear him

knew that Ayla had returned on

Brian said, throwing her

been

his heart, Ayla had become his

years.Even if Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything

intimacy between

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

turned around and said, "We need to stop talking

off all his thoughts as he strode furiously back to

his waist from behind as she caught

don't think about

Brian made a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would