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

Ayla went downstairs and got into Lucas’ car, hurriedly leaving the company.He drove her back to her original apartment.  

"Lala."

Lucas had prepared two cups of tea, placing them on the table.

They had been sitting on the sofa for over ten minutes but neither of them had uttered a word.  Ayla had no clue what he wanted to talk to her about.

Was it about their past or their future together? She just couldn't wrap her head around it.

Lucas put down his teacup and sat next to her.

"What happened today was nothing but an unfortunate misunderstanding," he remarked and put his hand on hers. 

She looked up at him.

He said that she had misunderstood the incident earlier today.

But who on earth would've been mistaken? Haley was certainly pregnant, and Lucas was definitely the father.

And he still insisted that it was a mistake? Was it just her imagination or was she really wrong? 

‘No, that's impossible"

Ayla could tell from Haley's eyes just how much she loved Lucas.

That woman probably loved him so much that she was willing to do anything for him, including giving birth to their child, even if they didn't end up together.

"Lucas, you've been with her for a long time, haven't you?"

Ayla withdrew her hand and placed it on her lap.

She might've slept with Lucas for once after she was drunk, but that didn't necessarily mean they'd be together forever, but Haley's case was different.  For a moment, he was reluctant to speak.

'Maybe I have known her for a long time?’ Lucas nodded.

"I've known her for more than ten years."  He and Haley grew up together.

Back when he was under Tatum's wing, he had an inhuman life.

didn't have enough clothes to wear, and he couldn't have

by him through it all was Haley.  Lucas had lost

heir of the Collins family, he turned into an

to take vengeance upon him.He wanted him to

never even mentioned Haley's name to me once." Ayla had never asked him about his

to time, he would tell her about his childhood and youth, but he

always known that Haley liked me, but I never liked her back.I've always thought of her

in

Ayla must've

make her think that she had

he knew that Haley had sent

do anything to stop

was the man who raised him, and Haley

was the one he

he would live in hatred for the

had gotten married,

to what had

be there, and their later frequent interactions made Lucas fall in love

of her, he had a

he had gotten his

before he could succeed with his plans for revenge, she almost lost her life because of

hatred and take her far away from everyone that could hurt her. 

considered that you lied to me, not because you were afraid that I would misunderstand you, but because you couldn't

much love was there actually between them? During the first year in Italy, she had a miserable life,

bond wasn't that

engaged just because they had slept with each

for her own blunder? She wasn't that kind of person.  And so, ending it now would be

just think of her as my sister," Lucas blurted

ring from her bag, putting

one day, you find a more suitable lover, you can tell me, and I would set

I'm telling you, it's impossible for me to fall

up yet.Why would she do that? Did she really not love him? Or had she decided to get back

Green is pregnant,"

a fact, and they all

responsibility for it.She was the one who set me up that night.And then I mistook her as you, so I had sex