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!"

it when she showed

him unreasonably to

crying and begging to

did neither of

charge of every situation, but it frustrated him when he couldn't

Ayla didn't say anything.

the ground quietly and picked up the

finger got cut accidentally and blood oozed out of the

lost her enthusiasm to react

broom and started sweeping the place clean.She was humiliated beyond her expectation.She mocked herself for the life she had.She wasn't

she had trusted and loved, had left

even lost her

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

couldn't do anything

front of her would torture her every day, humiliate her every way possible, make her eternally doomed, and still

didn't even make a sound,

It bothered him.

hand in his

her head until she

them leave holding each

felt so frustrated with her

on to the

couldn't hold back

her heart out as her blood

the noise of her crying

Ayla

had predicted

villa several times, and Maria knew how very picky she

Brian's girlfriends, and as a servant

"Mrs.Clark, please stand 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

a deep