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

Maria found Ayla in the parking lot and brought her back to her room.She held Ayla by her shoulder and comforted her.

"Mrs.Clark, please lie down for a while.I'll get you some food." Ayla nodded.

"Thank you." Her voice sounded so weak, and it was not only from the drink she'd had.It was because she was too depressed and grieved and had lost all her enthusiasm.

After that party, things never got better.Ayla fell seriously ill.

Over half a month passed until her condition was better.

All the while she stayed locked in the villa.

Besides, Brian disappeared soon after that night and hadn't returned home yet.

However, it was better for her to live here alone than to face him.

The doctor who was treating her, had advised her to get rid of the depression she was suffering from.

Otherwise she would end up with incurable depression.

But how could she stop her depression? She had lost her everything.Even her enthusiasm to live.She was now just waiting for death.

Was she so desperate to die? She glanced at her phone on the bedside table and pressed the power on button.

As soon as she did so, dozens of messages kept coming in and all of them were from Toby.

She didn't want to read them.

If she could, she would have deleted them all.But she could not.She still had feelings for Toby.

Even though they were separated from each other for several years, they grew up together and were close to each other.

She had been waiting for him all these years when they were apart, because he was her only hope.He was her future.But now everything was meaningless.

She reluctantly opened the messages and read them.

It turned out he had found out how she had become Brian's substitute bride.

She had no choice but to take Arlene's place.

Her phone suddenly buzzed.

She read the number but couldn't recognize it.

"Hello?" Ayla softly said.

"Lala, finally! I have been trying to catch you on the phone for so long.You got me so worried.How are you doing? Where are you now? How's everything? I want to see you!" Toby bombarded her with a long chain of questions.

"Toby, I'm fine."

She was really fine.

was happy, she

believe you.I absolutely know what kind of person Brian is! He can make your life worse than death, Lala! I'm

various ways Brian would torture

endure seeing her suffer like

as Arlene, who was the real daughter of

is not that

didn't know why she

never treated

tortured her by having sex without her consent and

a bad person? Toby could tell from

always been

pain without

me, where are you now? Let's meet and

to

her personally, he wouldn't believe what she

"But..." Ayla hesitated.

promise that she

me.I have something important to tell you.Tell me, where do you live?

had many villas and apartments, but he didn't know which one

for a while, but

of them agreed to meet at a cafe in

realized Maria had gone to shop downtown with

were only the housekeeper and other servants in the

into a set of clothes, Ayla

coffee shop,

by the

taxi stopped before the

"Lala."

forward and took her hand in

when he didn't lead her inside the cafe,

in my car.Let's talk somewhere

object, Toby pulled

"Toby!"

looked at him in

strange? What did he want? But Toby turned to her and smiled, then stepped on

ride, they stopped in front of

"Let's go upstairs."

in front of her, Ayla asked, "Toby, why

on, you can live here, Lala.I won't let you go back to Brian.No one can torture you

taken her to his new apartment.He led her

I can't

on the sofa, Ayla

Toby would take such an unexpected decision.She couldn't stay

learned about it, he would turn Toby's life in a living

suddenly pulled her