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.

would not let him

and Brian considered

"I see."

action yet because

knew that if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he couldn't

past two years, Lucas had tried his best to

asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup,

not forcing you, Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been working towards all these years,"

what Tatum had done.He had forced

smoking the

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

he couldn't leave

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

to watch as several men

his father had died, he had asked Lucas

him when Tatum had

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

taken him to Thailand and put

made Lucas stronger and taught him

Anna back to the

you going?" Anna asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered

walk.You should go

to go

stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built,

that Ayla had gone crazy living here and had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her alive.But she

was the reason behind it

it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing there, still as

light in the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

still thinking about her?" she asked,

took a drag from his

if he thought about

is still alive, will you

to know, although she didn't really want

was the only one who knew that

Brian said, throwing her

had only been signed on,

Ayla had become his

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

that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her,

"We need to stop

thoughts as

hurried after him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind as she caught up

please don't think about

not think about Ayla, he would eventually forget