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

shot Ayla, and

"I see."

taken any action yet because

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

past two years, Lucas had tried his best

questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in

Lucas.You shouldn't forget what you've been working towards all these

Tatum had done.He had forced Lucas into a

had been smoking the whole

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

couldn't leave

him everything before he had passed away, he might not have

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

died, he had

Tatum had approached Lucas with a proposition

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

Thailand and put him

taught him everything he needed to exact his

Anna back to the

Brian turn around the moment they entered

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

just wanted to go to

by the wooden tombstone that Ayla had

to commit suicide, and that

the reason behind it

to her? Anna followed him out and

dim corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering

about her?" she asked, walking up

he took a

matter if he thought about

alive, will you

although she didn't really want

was the only one who knew that Ayla had returned

said, throwing her

been signed on, but hadn't

his heart, Ayla had become his

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

thought that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas

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

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

as he strode furiously back to

after him, wrapping her arms around his

don't think about

made a conscious effort to not think about Ayla, he would