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 away with

had shot Ayla, and

"I see."

hadn't taken any action yet

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

past two years, Lucas had tried his best to do

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

you've been working towards all

had forced Lucas into a

had been smoking the whole

a wrench of his gut that Antawood, which was once his hometown, was

couldn't

his father hadn't told him everything before he had passed away,

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

had died, he had asked Lucas

him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition for

what hatred meant to him.He

to Thailand and put him through a rigorous, harsh

taught him everything he needed to exact

drove Anna back to the

you going?" Anna asked as she watched Brian

walk.You should go

wanted to go

the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's heart

living here and had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her alive.But she had disappeared in

reason

to her? Anna followed him

corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between

her?" she asked, walking

he took a drag from

it didn't matter if he thought about Ayla or

she is still alive, will you still

she didn't really want to hear him

that Ayla had returned on

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

been signed

Ayla had become

she might be with another

thought that the intimacy between Ayla

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

around and said, "We need

off all his thoughts as he strode furiously

around his waist from behind

don't think about

think about Ayla, he would eventually forget