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 him get away with

and

"I see."

taken any action

Brian down, Ayla would definitely leave him.And he

years, Lucas had tried his best

these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he did

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

exactly what Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas

been smoking the

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

couldn't

had passed away, he might not have

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

he had asked Lucas to

him when Tatum

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

had then taken him to Thailand and put

taught him everything he

drove Anna back to the

she watched Brian turn around

going out for a walk.You should go to bed early," Brian

just wanted to

the wooden tombstone that Ayla had built, Brian's

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

the reason

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

light in the dim corner of the backyard was

her?" she asked,

he took

him, it didn't matter if he

alive, will

know, although she didn't really want to hear him

that Ayla had returned on the same

hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering

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

heart, Ayla had

she might be with another man, or she might

the intimacy between Ayla

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

and said, "We need to

shook off all his thoughts as he strode furiously back to

wrapping her arms around his

please don't

think