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 get away

shot Ayla, and Brian

"I see."

taken any action yet because

Ayla would

tried his best to do what Tatum had asked of

whatever Tatum wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did not

you've been working towards

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

been smoking

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

couldn't leave this

before he had passed away, he might not have

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

father had died, he

itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas

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

then taken him to Thailand and put him through a rigorous, harsh

had made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he

Anna back to

as she watched Brian turn around

going out for a walk.You should go

to

stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla

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

reason behind it

he ever get the chance to make it up to her? Anna

corner of the

her?" she asked, walking up

anything.Instead, he took a drag from

matter if he

is still alive, will you still love

know, although she didn't really want to hear

that Ayla

won't answer your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering look as

been signed on, but

Ayla had become his legitimate

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

that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

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

need to stop talking about

off all his thoughts as he strode furiously back to the

arms around his waist from behind as she

don't think

a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would