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

Ayla, and

"I see."

action yet because

would definitely leave him.And he couldn't imagine his life

Lucas had tried his best to do what Tatum had

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

you've been working

exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into a

been smoking the

gut that Antawood,

couldn't leave

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 heart patient, was

had died, he had asked Lucas to take

presented itself to him when Tatum had

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

Thailand and

Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to

back to

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

walk.You should

just wanted to go to the

he stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla

crazy living here and had tried to commit suicide, and that

was the reason behind it

her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing there,

the backyard was the cigarette flickering between

about her?" she asked, walking

didn't say anything.Instead, he took a

didn't matter if he thought about Ayla

alive, will

she didn't really want to

who knew that Ayla had returned on

questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering look as he put out

only been signed on, but hadn't

in his heart, Ayla

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

the intimacy between Ayla

that Ayla was still alive, and he still

need

all his thoughts as he strode furiously

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

please don't think about

think about Ayla, he would