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.

first batch of this season's clothes were in the mall's underground

to the first floor of the mall where the

first thought was that the space was cluttered and

made this

objection when he had

space couldn't hold

sure that the clothes made it to the high end,

all, the JJ Department Store was

luxurious and pricey, and ordinary people could not

was greeted by the manager

was also a subsidiary of the Clark Group, Brian had called the manager in advance, instructing him to receive and treat the

manager dared not

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

business card and said with a slight smile, "Mr.Cohen, please

mildly

to the office upstairs first.We can go to the

Ayla nodded.

into the glass- enclosed elevator from

the second floor

the future, Mr.Clark will set up an exclusive shop on

sales that the shopping

at the people milling

a weekend, but there were still

women here were all from rich

she ran into a couple

and he was carrying several shopping bags full

Lucas was with another woman, but she had never

between them became

Ayla at once, having

Haley the moment he saw Ayla.It didn't matter to him in that moment that Haley

was not a

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

are you here, Lala?" Lucas asked,

his relationship

him to go shopping for the baby with her.He had agreed because he was worried about her, about her pregnancy.He hadn't, in his wildest dreams,

steadfastly at Lucas and said, "I

either.She looked down at the

had known

that was why he had asked her not to