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.

Brian would not let

and

"I see."

hadn't taken any action yet

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

years, Lucas had tried his

asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did

shouldn't forget what you've

had forced Lucas into a corner,

been smoking the

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

he couldn't leave

he had passed away, he might not have suffered so

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

had died, he had

Tatum had approached Lucas

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

then taken him to Thailand and put

had made Lucas stronger and taught him everything he needed to exact

drove Anna back to

she watched Brian turn around the moment

out for a walk.You should go to bed

wanted to go to

he stood by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's

crazy living here and had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept

the reason behind

her? Anna followed him out and saw him standing

in the dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette

thinking about her?" she

he took a drag from his

matter if he thought about Ayla or

is still alive, will you still love

to know, although she didn't really want

that Ayla had returned on the

answer your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her

and Ayla's marriage had only been

his heart, Ayla had

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

thought that the intimacy between Ayla

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

need to

off all his thoughts as he

his waist from

don't

effort to not think about Ayla, he would eventually