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 feel

"Clean up this place!"

it when she showed no

unreasonably to see her acting

should be crying

she did neither of

wanted to be in charge of every situation, but

Ayla didn't say anything.

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

cut accidentally and

just lost her enthusiasm to react to

continued her work.She brought a broom and started sweeping the place clean.She was humiliated beyond her expectation.She mocked herself for the life she

had trusted and loved,

lost

she had no right to expect anything

couldn't do anything

torture her every day, humiliate her every way possible, make her eternally

even make a sound, Brian got

It bothered him.

Ayla’s behavior, he took Anna's hand in his and left

her head until she heard the

leave holding

felt so frustrated with

slumped back on to the cold floor and broke

hold

out as her blood dripped on to the white, cold

one point, Maria heard the noise of her crying and came

gave Ayla a

had predicted this

the villa several times, and Maria knew how very picky she

Brian's girlfriends, and as a servant of the Clark family, Maria couldn't

"Mrs.Clark, please stand up."

and dressed Ayla's wound carefully.She didn't expect that her hand was cut so

a deep