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 him get away

had shot Ayla, and Brian considered this

"I see."

hadn't taken any action yet because

he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave

the past two years, Lucas had tried his best to

questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a

forget what you've been working towards all

what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into a corner, step

been smoking

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

couldn't leave

him everything before he had passed away, he might not have

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

he had asked Lucas

when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition for

to understand what hatred meant to him.He had merely

had then taken him to Thailand and put him

and taught him everything he needed

drove Anna back to the

Brian turn around the moment they entered

for a walk.You should go

just wanted to go

tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's

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

the reason behind it

to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and

in the dim corner of the

her?"

say anything.Instead, he took a drag from

matter if he

still alive, will

didn't really want to hear

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

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

and Ayla's marriage had only been

Ayla

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

thought that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

still loved her, he would put all his efforts

around and said, "We need to

thoughts as he strode furiously back

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

don't think about

not think about Ayla, he would eventually forget about