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.

would not let him

had shot Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

taken any action

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

his best to do

these illegal transactions would put him in

you, Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been working towards all these

had forced Lucas into a

been smoking the whole

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

couldn't leave this

told him everything before he had passed

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

died, he had asked Lucas to

Tatum had approached Lucas with a

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

then taken him to Thailand and put him through a

stronger and taught him everything he needed

back to the

watched Brian turn around the moment they

walk.You should

just wanted to go to the

he stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built,

to commit suicide, and

the reason behind

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

the backyard was

you still thinking about her?" she asked,

he took a

matter if he thought about Ayla

alive, will you

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

one who knew that Ayla had returned on

your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering

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

Ayla had become his

alive, she might be with another

the intimacy between Ayla

if Brian knew that Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her, he would

"We need to stop

all his thoughts as he strode furiously back

his waist from

please don't

a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would eventually