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

shot Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

taken any action yet because of

Ayla would definitely leave him.And he couldn't

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

no questions asked.He knew that these illegal

what you've

had done.He had forced Lucas into a corner,

had been smoking the

wrench of his gut that Antawood, which was once his hometown, was now something he

he couldn't leave this

before he had

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

his father had died, he had asked Lucas to

opportunity presented itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition for

meant to him.He had merely nodded his head

to Thailand and put him through

stronger and taught him everything he

back to

as she watched Brian turn around the

a walk.You should go to

to go to the

the wooden tombstone

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

reason

to her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing

of the backyard

her?" she

didn't say anything.Instead, he took

him, it didn't matter if he thought about Ayla or

alive, will you still

know, although she didn't

knew that Ayla had returned

your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering look as he

been signed on, but

Ayla had become

with another man, or she might have

thought that the intimacy between Ayla and

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

turned around and said, "We need

thoughts as

after him, wrapping her arms around his

don't think about

not think about Ayla,