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.

not let him get away

Ayla, and Brian considered this

"I see."

taken any action yet because of

took Brian down, Ayla would

his best to do what Tatum had asked of

wanted, no questions asked.He knew that these illegal transactions would put him in a soup, but he

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

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

had been smoking the whole

the window, realizing with a wrench of his gut that Antawood, which was

couldn't leave this

hadn't told him everything before he had passed away, he might not have suffered so

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

died, he had asked

itself to him when Tatum

hatred meant to him.He had merely

then taken him to Thailand and put

made Lucas stronger and taught him everything

Anna back to

as she watched Brian turn around the moment they entered the

out for a walk.You should go to bed

to go to

by the wooden tombstone

here and had tried to commit suicide, and that Brian had forcefully kept her alive.But she had disappeared in

reason

he ever get the chance to make it up to her? Anna followed him out and saw him

corner of the backyard was the cigarette flickering between his

her?"

didn't say anything.Instead, he took a drag from

didn't matter if he thought

is still alive,

although she didn't really want to hear him

only one who knew that Ayla had returned

answer your hypothetical questions," Brian said, throwing her a withering look as he

marriage had only been signed on, but hadn't been

Ayla had become his legitimate

been two years.Even if Ayla is alive, she might be with

thought that the intimacy between Ayla and Lucas

knew that Ayla was still alive, and he still loved her, he would

and said, "We need

as he strode furiously back

after him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind

don't think about

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