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

shot Ayla, and

"I see."

hadn't taken any action

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

past two years, Lucas had tried his best to do what Tatum had asked

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

forget what you've been working towards all these

exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced

had been smoking the

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

he couldn't leave this

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

to watch as several men raped his mother while his father, a heart patient, was admitted to

died, he had asked Lucas to

Tatum had approached

meant to him.He

then taken him to Thailand and

made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact

drove Anna back to

asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment they

for a walk.You should go to

to go to

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

had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept

was the reason behind

it up to her? Anna followed him out and

dim corner of the

her?" she asked, walking

anything.Instead, he took a drag from his

didn't matter if he

alive, will you

know, although she didn't really

knew that Ayla had

hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering look

only been

his heart, Ayla had become

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

thought that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas

still loved her, he would put all his efforts in

around and said, "We need

off all his thoughts as he strode furiously

arms around his waist

don't

conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would eventually