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

Anna cast a cold glance at Linda as she said, "Don't worry, Miss Linda.Let's continue the meeting."

Linda was embarrassed.

Anna thought that she shared a special relationship with Brian, which probably gave her the courage to humiliate Linda in front of so many people.

But Linda wasn't going to take this lying down.She would make Anna pay the price of this humiliation.

The meeting ended in half an hour.

Anna took alli her notes and material for the morning meeting with her.She then bought the abalone porridge and some desserts, along with some of Brian's favorite dishes.

Brian had remained with Ayla, but she showed no signs of waking up from her coma.

The doctor seemed to have tried everything in his arsenal but had come up short.

He looked helpless as he shrugged, indicating that maybe all they could do was wait for her to wake up on her own.

Anna spotted Brian sitting by Ayla's bedside as she entered the ward.

"What's wrong with her?"

Anna asked him as she glanced at Ayla, concerned.

Brian shook his head.

"Nothing serious.Give me the minutes of the morning meeting and you can leave."

"You didn't get any rest last night.You should go get some sleep.I'll stay with her for a while," Anna said, handing him the food and coffee she had bought.

"No, thanks.You can go back to office.I'll stay here with her."

Brian was worried about Ayla.

He couldn't leave her side in this condition.

Anna knew that Brian was a man who, once he made up his mind to do something, would do it, no matter what.

There was nothing she could do to convince him otherwise.

And now that Ayla's condition seemed serious, she had no hope whatsoever.

she okay? She looks

now unconscious and unresponsive, causing concern to

he said, looking up at Ayla's unconscious

could happen

if she had overdosed? She had once suffered from drug addiction but she

addict, despite the fact

Anna didn't say anything.

she turned around and walked out of

condition was unusual, and that Brian

that morning, when Anna returned to the office, she came

Why did you come back so soon? Didn't you keep him company? No intention of serving him well?" Linda sneered at Anna.She was itching to retaliate against the embarrassment that Anna had

company and everyone had been obliged

to walk over her at every step, leaving Linda seething.She would

office without working, know that the Clark Group doesn't pay people

Anna shot back.

like Linda's

Linda was here only for Brian and not for the

other woman was just a

Anna.I believe in myself and my abilities.It's just a few

thus, Linda turned around

at her retreating back, she muttered furiously, "What overconfidence! Doesn't she

had been in a coma for more than 10 hours.She opened her eyes, feeling the weight of her drooping eyelids and the weakness plaguing her

finally awake," Brian

looked at

"Why am I here?"

fever last night," he said, sitting down by her side and stretching out

had

had been afraid that she would never wake up and that

"I see," Ayla said.

"I'm fine now."

fevers with increasing frequency over the past few months.Her health

a high fever you were in a coma? Even the doctor was

barked, irritated with Ayla's

gingerly and looked at him, "Why are you so angry? This is normal.Anyone can

herself to the hospital because of the constant high temperatures she had been running.But 

of Lucas that you wanted to live on? And now that I'm with you, you're indifferent to your own health? Is

that her body was riddled with weakness, Brian would have punished her

him and said,