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.

not let him

and

"I see."

any action

took Brian down, Ayla would definitely

had tried his best to do what Tatum had asked of

these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did not

forget what you've been working towards all these years,"

had done.He had forced Lucas

been smoking the whole

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

he couldn't

before he had passed away, he might not

several men raped his mother

died, he had

Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition

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

Thailand and put him through

and taught him

Anna back to

asked as she watched Brian turn around the

should go to bed early,"

just wanted to go

tombstone that Ayla had built,

commit suicide, and that Brian had

was the reason

to her? Anna followed him out and saw

the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between his

her?" she asked, walking up

didn't say anything.Instead, he took a drag from

if he thought about

still alive,

she didn't really want to hear him say

who knew that Ayla

throwing her a withering look as he

and Ayla's marriage had only been

in his heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

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

that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas

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

"We need to

thoughts as he strode

his waist from behind as

please don't think about

a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would