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

Ayla's protests were in vain as she was trapped in Lucas' strong arms.

"Lucas, please stop.We can't do that! No!" she murmured.

Subconsciously, she resisted his approach towards her.

In the past two years, nothing had changed between them.

She still couldn't give him a place in her heart.

She didn't love him and that was the bottom line.

"Lala, you have to forget him, okay? You are a mere footnote in the history of his life.How can you still love him?"

For two years he endeavored to make her forget Brian.He was becoming impatient.

The last time he had met Brian, he saw that although he was still with Anna, their relationship was more of a business partnership.

Their engagement too was just a social spectacle.

This was cause for concern.

Ayla was no longer some pauper.She could have anything her heart desired.She shook her head.

Whether she chose to forget Brian or not was her personal matter.

It did not concern Lucas.She simply couldn't accept him.

"Lala, talk to me!"

A salty, astringent taste spread around his lips.

"Lucas, if you want me to feel indebted to you for all that you did for me these past two years, then take my body! Objectify me to your heart's content! If not, then leave me alone!"

She could never repay him for all that he had done for her.

If all he wanted was her body, then he could claim it.

She had lost so much that nothing mattered to her anymore.Her words echoed in his mind.

Did he still have to end up forcing her after two years of pursuing her? This was not what he had bargained for! She pulled up her clothes and said, "Lucas, you are well aware of my checkered past.I am no angel.My health is deteriorating and I am unable to conceive.I can never be a mother.My being with you will only bring you more misery."

He felt and understood her pain.

She had shared everything with him.

There were no secrets.

What stunned Lucas most was her revelation that she could not have a baby.

"Was it because of him?"

He sank into stunned silence for a while.

Ayla stared at the vastness outside then clarified, "No.It's my choice."

baby had filled her

don't care.I love you more than life itself.It doesn't matter if we don't

he didn't

the reason for their

head sadly, "But I

she hoped was to have

now, she didn't want to love

and said,

so

years and didn't mind waiting a

two years, Brian had sprung back

after another and his

strides in his career and tested new

of what Tatum had done to Ayla, Brian had lost interest in transaction of

the only person who could help him around

with

she was promoted to special assistant to

the entertainment club was not her

she could work more closely with

multi-functional hall on the third

had become an international icon in

manipulating the markets in most spheres.He now had his eye

it would see him singing all the

bother

pretty confident

from a very reliable source that the Smith

Anna informed him.

Group offered strong competition to

for

be equally pitted against each

knew that he

hand, was determined to challenge Brian

Toby was doing

Smith Group would tender for this

its business as a

were not developing as

Smith Group steals this project from right under our noses, will we

didn't want him to concede to

down his pen and looked at

worry.They don't have the

calm, over confident disposition.This very attitude was responsible for

show being held by Starlight Fashion Hub, a fashion design company in Milan, Italy, next month.If you

received the invitation earlier but did not

it also did not seem right for him not to attend since they

"Aren't you going?"

only preferred going overseas if

the Starlight Fashion Hub in Milan was equally important to bolster the

go ahead

high profile

because his work