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.

would not let

and

"I see."

taken any action yet

that if he took Brian down, Ayla would

Lucas had tried his best to do what Tatum

whatever Tatum wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would

you've

Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into

had been smoking the

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

he couldn't leave

everything before he had passed away, he

child at the time, being made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father,

died, he had asked

Tatum had approached Lucas

had been too young to understand what hatred meant to him.He had merely nodded his head in

then taken him to Thailand and put him through a rigorous, harsh

made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact

Anna back

she watched Brian turn around the moment

walk.You should go to bed

just wanted to go to the

wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's

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

the reason behind it

her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing there, still as

corner of the backyard

still thinking about her?" she

say anything.Instead, he took

if he thought about Ayla

alive, will you still love

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

was the only one who knew that Ayla had

questions," Brian said, throwing her

had only been

in his heart, Ayla had become

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

intimacy between Ayla

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

said, "We need to

thoughts as he strode furiously back to

arms around his waist from behind as she

don't

to not think about Ayla, he would eventually forget about