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

had shot Ayla, and Brian considered this

"I see."

hadn't taken any action yet because of

knew that if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely

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

knew that these illegal transactions would put him in

what you've been working

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

had been smoking the

the window, realizing with a wrench of his gut that

couldn't

his father hadn't told him everything before he had passed away,

still been a helpless child at the time, being made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father, a

he had

when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition for

understand what hatred meant to him.He had

taken him to Thailand and put him

him everything

back to

as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered

a walk.You should go to bed early,"

wanted to go to

stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built,

suicide,

was the reason

Anna followed him

in the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between his

thinking about her?" she asked,

say anything.Instead, he took a drag from his

if he

still alive,

although she didn't really want to hear him

only one who knew that Ayla had returned

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

had only been signed on, but

his heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

know.It has been two years.Even if Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that

thought that the intimacy between

Brian knew that Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her,

around and said, "We need to stop talking about

thoughts as he strode furiously back

hurried after him, wrapping her arms around his waist

don't

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