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

After Ayla prepared the dishes and served them at the table, Anna looked at them with a disgusted expression.Brian and Anna were sitting face to face.

Brian asked her to taste the dishes and give her opinion about them.

Anna tasted each of them and was very much unsatisfied with the taste.

She either pointed out the dishes were too salty or too spicy.

Seeing that, Brian glared at Ayla and asked, "Are you taking your revenge on me because I asked you to cook?"

"No, it's nothing like that." Ayla shook her head.

It was so very obvious that they intentionally picked on her.She had nothing to say because it wouldn't make any difference.

"No? Because, none of these dishes is edible! These taste so bad!" he snapped then got up and threw away all the food to the ground.

The floor was a mess now.

Ayla although had expected this, it still hurt her feelings.

She had cooked with so much dedication, but he didn't even value her hard work.

All of her efforts just got wasted by that devil.

But she didn't even feel sad.

It could be expected from him.

However, she had suffered enough today.

First, Toby's intimacy with another woman, then Brian's and Anna's humiliations.

Seeing Ayla didn't even react, Brian got more furious.

His eyes narrowed to slits in exasperation as he raised his hand and slapped Ayla on her cheek.

The force was too much that it made her fall to the ground.

It stung where his hand made contact with her cheek.

wrong when she thought she couldn't

"Clean up this place!"

didn't like it when she showed no

him unreasonably to

crying and

did neither

always wanted to be in charge of every situation, but it frustrated him when he couldn't

Ayla didn't say anything.

ground quietly and picked up the pieces of broken plates one by

got cut accidentally and blood oozed

just lost her enthusiasm to react to that

beyond her expectation.She mocked herself for the life she had.She wasn't even the real daughter of the Woodsen family.She was just

man she had trusted

even lost her

all of these, she had no right to expect anything good

do anything

every day, humiliate her

make a sound, Brian got

It bothered him.

took Anna's hand in his and

even raise her head until she heard

leave holding

so frustrated

the cold floor and

couldn't hold back

as her blood dripped on to the white, cold tiled

point, Maria heard the noise of her

Ayla

predicted

had been to the villa several times, and Maria knew

a servant of the Clark family, Maria couldn't

"Mrs.Clark, please stand up."

her to her room.She took the medicine box and dressed Ayla's wound carefully.She didn't expect that her hand was cut so badly by

was a