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

Ayla, and Brian

"I see."

taken any action

if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he

two years, Lucas had tried his best

illegal transactions would put him in

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

that was exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced

smoking

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

he couldn't

father hadn't told him everything before he had passed away, he might not have suffered so

watch as several men raped his mother while his father,

father had died, he had asked Lucas to take

presented itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a

been too young to understand what hatred meant

and put

taught him everything

back

watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the

should

to

wooden tombstone

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

the reason

the chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing there,

the backyard was

about her?" she asked, walking up

anything.Instead, he took a drag from

him, it didn't matter if he

alive, will you still love

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

one who knew that Ayla had returned on the same flight

said, throwing her a withering look as he put out the

marriage had only been signed on, but hadn't

Ayla had

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

thought that the intimacy between

Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her,

around and said, "We need to stop talking

as he strode furiously

him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind as

please don't think

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