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.

would not let him

had shot Ayla, and Brian considered

"I see."

taken any action yet because

would definitely leave

two years, Lucas had tried his best to do

these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did not

you've been working towards all these years,"

exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas

had been smoking

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

couldn't

had

to watch as several men raped his mother while his father, a heart patient, was

father had died, he had asked

presented itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with

too young to understand what hatred meant to him.He had merely nodded his head in

taken him to Thailand and put

him

Anna back to the

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

out for a walk.You should

wanted to

he stood by the wooden tombstone that

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 it

chance to make it up to her? Anna

the dim corner of the backyard

her?" she asked, walking

anything.Instead, he took

matter if he thought about Ayla or

she is still alive, will you

had to know, although she didn't really

knew that Ayla had returned on the same flight

Brian said, throwing her

only been signed

in his heart, Ayla had become his legitimate

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

that the intimacy between

still loved her,

need to stop talking

as he strode furiously

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

please don't

effort to not think