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

and Brian considered this

"I see."

any action yet

would definitely leave him.And he couldn't imagine his

two years, Lucas had tried his best to do what

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

what you've been working

done.He had forced Lucas into a corner, step by

had been smoking the whole

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

couldn't

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

made to watch as several men raped his mother while his father,

died, he had asked

him when Tatum had approached Lucas

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

and put him through a rigorous, harsh training

him everything he needed to

drove Anna back

are you going?" Anna asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the

out for a walk.You should go to bed early," Brian

wanted to

wooden tombstone

suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her alive.But

the reason

to her? Anna followed him

only light in the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between

about her?" she asked, walking up

say anything.Instead, he took a

didn't matter if

still alive, will you still love

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

one who knew that Ayla

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

been signed

heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

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

that the intimacy between Ayla and

was still alive, and he still loved her, he would put all his efforts

"We need to stop talking about

as

his waist

please don't think about

made a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he