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

shot Ayla, and

"I see."

action yet because of

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

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

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

what you've been

that was exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into a corner,

had been smoking

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

couldn't leave

father hadn't told him everything before he had passed away, he might not have suffered

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

died, he had asked Lucas to take

him when Tatum

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

to Thailand and put him through a

stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact

drove Anna back

going?" Anna asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment

walk.You should go to

wanted to go to the

by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built,

that Ayla had gone crazy living here and had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her alive.But she had

was the reason behind

chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing there, still as a

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

about her?" she

took a drag

didn't matter if

still alive, will you still love

know, although she didn't really want to hear

who knew that Ayla had returned on

said, throwing her a

marriage had only been signed on,

Ayla had become his

has been two years.Even if Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that happened

the intimacy between

knew that Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her, he would put

turned around and said, "We need to stop talking

all his thoughts as he strode furiously back to the

wrapping her arms around his waist from behind as she

please don't

made a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would