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 she couldn't feel

"Clean up this place!"

like it when she showed

unreasonably to see

crying and

she did neither

in charge of every situation, but

Ayla didn't say anything.

and picked

and blood oozed out of

she just lost her enthusiasm

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

she had trusted and loved, had left

lost

no right to expect anything good from her

do anything but to

front of her would torture her every day, humiliate her every way possible, make

make a sound, Brian got

It bothered him.

took Anna's hand in his and left without looking

head until she

watched them leave holding

so frustrated

slumped back on to the cold floor and broke

hold

heart out as her blood dripped on

Maria heard the noise of her

gave Ayla a pitiful

had predicted this

had been to the villa several times, and Maria knew

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

"Mrs.Clark, please stand up."

numb girl get up and took 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

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