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

shot Ayla, and Brian

"I see."

hadn't taken any action

that if he took Brian down, Ayla would definitely

years, Lucas had tried his best to do

wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did not

Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been working towards all these years," Tatum

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

had been smoking the whole

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

couldn't leave this

had passed away, he might not

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

had died, he had asked Lucas to

itself to him when Tatum had approached Lucas with

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

then taken him to Thailand and put

had made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to

back to the

asked as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the

for a walk.You should go

just wanted to go to the

the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's heart

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

the reason behind it

it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw

in the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

her?" she asked, walking up to

didn't 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

knew that Ayla had

questions," Brian said, throwing her a

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

Ayla had become his

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

thought that the intimacy between Ayla

still loved her, he would put all

said, "We need to stop talking about her.Let's

thoughts as he strode furiously back to the

arms around his waist from behind as she caught

please don't think about

to not think about Ayla, he would