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.

let him get away

had shot Ayla, and

"I see."

action yet because

that if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave

the past two years, Lucas had tried his best to do what Tatum had

illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he

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

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

been smoking the whole

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

couldn't leave this

before he had passed away, he might not have

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

he

when Tatum had approached Lucas with a

to understand what hatred meant to him.He had merely nodded his head in

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

had made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed

Anna back to the

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

a walk.You should go

just wanted to

by the wooden tombstone

commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her alive.But she

the reason behind

Anna followed him out and saw him standing there,

dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between

thinking about her?" she

say anything.Instead, he took a drag from

didn't matter if he thought about Ayla

alive, will you still love

she didn't really want to hear him

that Ayla had

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

Ayla's marriage had only been signed on,

in his heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that happened here," Anna

between Ayla and Lucas was

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

"We need

all his thoughts as he strode furiously back

hurried after him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind

don't

conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he