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 considered

"I see."

any action

that if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And

had tried his

whatever Tatum wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a

Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been working

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

smoking

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

he couldn't leave this

he had

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

died, he had asked

itself to him when Tatum

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

had then taken him to Thailand and put him through a

and taught him everything he needed

back to

asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment they

should go to

just wanted to go to

the wooden tombstone that Ayla had

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

was the reason behind

Anna

the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

about her?" she asked, walking up to

say anything.Instead, he took a drag from

matter if he thought about

is still alive, will

didn't really want to hear

was the only one who knew that Ayla had returned on the same flight

said, throwing her

marriage had only been signed on, but hadn't been

Ayla had become his

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

intimacy between Ayla and

still loved her, he would put

around and said, "We need to stop talking

his thoughts as he strode furiously back to

her arms around his waist from behind

please don't

conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would