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

Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

any action

would

had tried his best to do what Tatum

knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a

forget what you've been working towards all

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

been smoking the

a wrench of his gut that Antawood, which

he couldn't leave

him everything before he had passed away,

watch as several men raped his

had died, he had asked Lucas

itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with a

meant to

then taken him to Thailand and put

and taught him everything he needed to

back to

as she watched Brian turn around the

walk.You should

wanted to go to the

the wooden tombstone that Ayla had

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

the reason

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

light in the dim corner of the

about her?" she asked, walking up to

say anything.Instead, he took a drag from his

didn't matter if he thought about

alive, will

she didn't really want to hear

only one who knew that Ayla had returned on the same

questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering

only been

heart, Ayla had become

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

between Ayla

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

need to stop talking about her.Let's

off all his thoughts as he strode furiously back to the

after him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind as she caught up to

don't

a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would