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.

when she thought

"Clean up this place!"

when she showed

him unreasonably to

should be crying and

did neither of

wanted to be in charge of every

Ayla didn't say anything.

ground quietly and picked up

got cut accidentally and blood oozed out of the

enthusiasm to react

sweeping the place clean.She was humiliated 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 an orphan girl adopted

had trusted and loved, had

even lost

no right to expect anything good from her

she couldn't do anything but to

torture her every day, humiliate her every

even make a sound,

It bothered him.

Anna's hand

didn't even raise her head until she

them leave holding

frustrated

the cold floor and broke

hold back

her heart out as her blood dripped

the noise of her crying and

Ayla

had predicted this to

several times, and Maria knew how very

a servant

"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

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