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

and Brian

"I see."

any action yet because of

would definitely leave him.And

the past two years, Lucas had tried his best

knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup,

what you've

had forced Lucas into a corner, step by

been smoking the

realizing with a wrench of his gut that Antawood,

he couldn't leave

had passed away, he might

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

had died, he had asked Lucas to take

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

understand what hatred meant to him.He had

to Thailand and put him through

him everything he needed to exact

Anna back to the

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

going out for a walk.You should go

wanted to go

stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla

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

reason behind

chance to make it up to her? Anna followed

of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between his

still thinking about her?" she asked,

he took a drag from

if he thought about

she is still alive, will

although she didn't really want to hear

was the only one who knew that

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

Ayla's marriage had only been signed on, but hadn't

heart, Ayla had

years.Even if Ayla is alive, she might be with another man, or she might have forgotten everything that happened here," Anna

that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas was

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

turned around and said, "We need to stop talking about

all his thoughts as he strode furiously

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

please don't think about

think about