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.

of this season's clothes were in the mall's underground warehouse

Ellie walked up to the first floor of the mall where the clothes were being

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

made

an objection when he had come to see the

small space couldn't

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

the JJ Department Store was the

commodities there were all luxurious and pricey, and ordinary people could

the manager of the shopping

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

dared not defy

name is Zayn Cohen,"the middle- aged manager said as way of introduction and handed Ayla a

took the business card and said with a

mildly horrified before

the office upstairs first.We can go to the underground warehouse

Ayla nodded.

from where they could see the mall

floor where

will set

the soaring sales that the shopping mall

looked at the people milling

was not a weekend, but there were

were all from

Ayla's surprise, she ran into a couple in a corner of the

was carrying several shopping bags

was with another woman, but

air between them became

Ayla at once, having

saw Ayla.It didn't matter

was not a

intuition had been right, that perhaps this woman in front of them was exactly

Lala?"

had wanted to hide his relationship with Haley, but hadn't been able

had hounded Lucas over and over again, asking 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

and said, "I have business here."Her voice was

like this either.She looked down at the baby products that Lucas

Brian had known

that was why he had asked her not to go looking