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

Brian had just turned around when he felt soft lips pressing down on his.

This was the first time Ayla had taken the initiative to kiss him.

He didn't want her to kiss him just because he had returned the ring to her.He didn’t want her to go running into another man's arms once they were done.

Ayla's kiss was inexperienced.But she put her soul into it, turning her into a seductress, making Brian helpless and unable to refuse her.

"Did you kiss me just to repay me, Lala?"he said softly.

As his gaze found hers, Brian felt his stomach drop away.

He was becoming more and more weak- kneed before Ayla with each passing day.

The kiss she had given him didn't even qualify as one, but it filled him with satisfaction and relief.

Ayla didn't say anything but merely looked at him, because it was not a reward.

She had never thought of repaying him in this way.She had just been overcome with the sudden urge to do it.

That was all.

She knew Brian wouldn't care, but she had still done it.

Brian flashed her a charming smile, one that she had never seen before.

Ayla didn't go to see Lucas once she left the apartment.

Instead, she went to office.

She knew Brian wasn't lying when he said that Lucas and that woman were in a relationship.

And she didn't want to ruin their relationship by appearing suddenly before them.

Lucas had done a lot for Ayla these past two years.

All she wanted was for him to be happy.

After the morning meeting, Ayla and her assistant, Ellie, went to JJ Department Store to recce the site.

The fashion show would be held there one week later.

Ayla wasn't supposed to be there, but Anna and Brian were having a meeting in the company and so they had asked her to do the task instead.

batch of this season's clothes were in the mall's underground warehouse and she needed to check on

first floor of the mall where

first thought was that the space was cluttered and congested, nowhere near airy as

had made

he had come to see

couldn't

to make sure that the clothes made it to the high end, he had reluctantly given

Department Store

commodities there were all luxurious and pricey, and ordinary people could not afford

was greeted by the manager of the shopping

Group, Brian had called the

manager dared not defy

am the manager of this shopping mall.My name is Zayn Cohen,"the middle-

and said with a slight smile, "Mr.Cohen, please call me

looked mildly

let me take you to the office upstairs first.We can go to the underground warehouse later," he

Ayla nodded.

Zayn into the glass- enclosed elevator from where they could see the mall from every

the second floor where women's wear lined

Miss Woodsen.In the future, Mr.Clark will set up an exclusive shop on this floor

the soaring sales that the shopping mall was

the people

a weekend, but there were still quite a few people

were

she ran into a couple in a corner

holding on to Lucas’ arm, and he was carrying several shopping bags

with another woman, but she had never expected to meet them

air between them became

Ayla at once,

pulled away from Haley the moment he saw Ayla.It didn't

not

that he was behaving like this because of this woman's presence.She also knew that her intuition had been right, that perhaps this woman in front of them was exactly the woman who had been

Lala?" Lucas asked, a

hide his relationship with Haley, but hadn't been

with her.He had agreed because he was worried about her, about her pregnancy.He hadn't, in

at Lucas and said, "I have business here."Her

expected to meet him like this either.She looked down at the baby products that Lucas

known all of

was why he had asked her not