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

had shot Ayla, and Brian

"I see."

any action yet

took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he couldn't imagine his

his best to

these illegal transactions would put him

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

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

been smoking the whole

his gut

he couldn't

he had passed away, he might not have suffered so

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

had died, he

Tatum had

had been too young to understand what hatred meant

him to Thailand and put him through a rigorous, harsh

Lucas stronger and taught him

drove Anna back to

she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered

out for a walk.You should go

wanted to go to the

the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's

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

reason

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

of the

her?" she asked,

anything.Instead, he took a drag

him, it didn't matter if he thought about

is still alive, will you still love

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

the only one who knew that Ayla had returned on the same flight

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

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

his heart, Ayla had become

Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she

intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

he still loved her, he would

and said, "We need

as

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

please don't

not think about Ayla,