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

shot Ayla, and

"I see."

action yet because of

down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he

the past two years, Lucas had tried his

asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he

forcing you, Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been working towards all these

was exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into a

smoking the whole

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

he couldn't leave this

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

being made to watch as several men raped

he had asked Lucas to

when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition for

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

and put him through a rigorous, harsh

Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact his

Anna back to the

Brian

going out for a walk.You should go to

to go to

stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla

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

reason behind

her? Anna followed him

of the backyard was the

still thinking about her?" she asked,

say anything.Instead, he took a drag from his

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

alive, will

although she didn't really want to hear him say

one who knew that Ayla had returned on the

her a withering look as he

been signed on, but

in his heart, Ayla had

is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that

that the intimacy between Ayla

knew that Ayla was still alive, and he still loved

turned around and said, "We need to

his thoughts as he

him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind

don't

not think about Ayla, he