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 with

and

"I see."

any action yet

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

years, Lucas had tried his

questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did

forcing you, Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been

what Tatum had done.He had

been smoking

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

he couldn't leave this

before he had passed away, he might not have suffered

several men raped his mother while his father, a heart

father had died, he had asked Lucas

itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition

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

and

him everything he needed to exact his

Anna back

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

should go to bed

just wanted to go

he stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's heart

to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully

the reason behind it

the chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw

corner of the backyard was the cigarette

her?" she

he took a drag from his

him, it didn't matter if he thought

alive, will you still

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

one who knew that Ayla had returned on the

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

Ayla's marriage had only been

heart, Ayla had become

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

the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas

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

around and said, "We need

thoughts as

wrapping her arms around his waist from behind as she

please don't think about

Brian made a conscious effort to not think about Ayla,