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.

not let him get away with

had shot Ayla, and Brian considered this

"I see."

any action

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

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

would get whatever Tatum wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but

you've been working towards

exactly what Tatum had done.He had

had been smoking the whole

with a wrench of his gut that Antawood,

he couldn't leave this

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

a helpless child at the time, being made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father, a heart patient, was admitted to the

had died, he had asked Lucas to take

opportunity presented itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition

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

had then taken him to Thailand and put him

Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact

back to

asked as she watched Brian turn around

a walk.You should go to

to go

tombstone that Ayla had built,

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

the reason behind

the chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw

of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between his

about her?" she asked,

anything.Instead, he took a

if he

alive, will you

although she didn't really want to hear him say

knew that Ayla had returned on

questions," Brian said, throwing her a

had only been signed on, but hadn't

his heart, Ayla had

might be with another man, or

that the intimacy between

still loved her, he would put all his efforts in getting her

said, "We need to

shook off all his thoughts as he strode

his waist from

please don't

conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would eventually