The Substitute Bride: Making Memories Of Us (Lois Stone)

Haley sneered, "Are you pretending as if nothing has happened? How cruel can you be to say this? How dare you insinuate that nothing has happened? Then what is this?" she asked, pointing at the bruises punctuated all over her body by the previous night's frenzied sex.

'How could he ask me to forget what has happened?' she thought bitterly.

"Lucas, how could you be so cruel to me for the sake of that wretched woman? Can she love you as much as I do? Can she drive you to such levels of ecstasy and passion as I do? She hasn't let you touch her, has she?"

She had done everything in her power to get what she wanted and was determined to win this battle.

"Haley, don't you understand? I always regard you as my sister."

What he meant was that she could only be a sister to him.

Chances of her ever becoming a lover or a wife were nil.

The only woman in his heart was Ayla.

It didn't matter that he could not get her body, but his heart belonged only to her.

"Am I right?"

Haley looked at him and commented, "If a woman doesn't surrender her body to you then it's a clear indication that she doesn't love you!"

"What nonsense! The two of you are like chalk and cheese!"

He liked Ayla's innocence and kindness as much as he disliked Haley's scheming character.

Ayla could shower him with an abundance of warmth that made him long for a home with her.

Haley couldn't offer him anything close to this in a thousand years.

Although Haley had helped him in countless ways when he was suffering in Thailand, that was not the kind of love he sought.

Haley stared at him and said, "I won't force you; but I don't want you to meet that woman now, okay? Please can you stay and accompany me today?"

His heart melted like butter when he saw tears streaming down her cheeks.

She didn't usually break down so easily.

"Are you still hesitant? This is my only condition.I do not expect you to take responsibility for me or to marry me.All I request is that you should spend just one day with me, please."

best.She would need more time to plan how to worm her way

He nodded in agreement.

face.She knew exactly what she wanted from this very complicated relationship: a

took Ayla to the Clark Group office

sample dresses she had designed were ready for inspection.The Clark Group was indeed super-efficient.The dresses were presented to her in

think? Do they meet up to your

draped the dresses on the mannequins and

awe as she seriously examined the dresses.He had never imagined that Ayla, who

Anna arrived at the company, she heard that Brian had brought a

had grown close over the past two years.She was a very seductive woman so

Brian on the sofa, observing Ayla as she checked the sample dresses on the

too good to

all the dresses

her designs? Had anyone else designed the dresses, he would have found

help but blame

would have been no need for him to

keep them apart,

would not allow Ayla to ruin

her head,

to accidentally prick her finger with the

pain made

followed her gaze and said, "Come

as cold

you really going to

so ruthless? In the past two years that they had been 'together', he had not reciprocated her

the fact that he still nurtured a space

who resembled Ayla

and would even help him investigate those women who looked

in her heart, he would never touch

just admire their resemblance to Ayla

hoped and prayed that

that was a dream short

he could forget Ayla, she mysteriously reappeared, ruining the peace they had shared

look.What's your opinion? Do you find anything wrong?" Brian