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

Upon seeing that Ayla was about to reach for the glass again, Brian thought that she was planning to drink herself to death.It was already generous of him to allow her to drink this much, and yet she still wanted to keep drinking.

Although, how could he expect a drunk woman to be aware of her actions? Before Ayla could firmly grasp the glass, Brian snatched it away from her hand and drank it himself.

"My wine..."

Ayla was drunk.

The looming fear she always had whenever Brian was around, had been cast aside by her mind.

Despite the strange glances they were getting, he picked her up and brought her outside the bar.

A gust of cold wind blew past them, causing Ayla to shiver involuntarily.She snuggled up to him, and called out Lucas’ name subconsciously.

"Ayla!"

Brian had been trying to make up for all the suffering he had put her through, and he had been gentle to her all this time.

But despite all of his efforts, she still couldn't move on from Lucas.He then opened the car door and threw her into the back seat, causing her head to accidently hit the door.

"Ouch!"

As she rubbed her aching forehead, sobriety gradually came to her.

"Why are you being so crass against me?"

Ayla rolled her eyes at Brian.

"You did that on purpose, didn't you?"

"Ayla! Don't push your luck just because I've been treating you well lately!"

He clasped her neck tightly with his hand.

Had he lacked compassion for her, he would've strangled her without uttering a single word.

However, Brian couldn't bring himself to hurt Ayla.He knew that she had used him as an excuse to escape Lucas this afternoon, but Brian was willing to do it for her.He had gone the extra mile by letting her know about Lucas and Haley's relationship.

Brian even returned Ayla's ring to her as a compromise because he knew that if he kept forcing her to do his bidding, it would only push her further away from him.

And so, the only viable course of action was to back away for now.

Just as he had expected, his plan succeeded.

Aye confronted Lucas, and returned the ring to him.

which had

top of that, Brian appeared at the perfect time to ask

she still

called out Lucas’ name when she

how generous Brian could be, he couldn't tolerate it when the woman of his dreams cared about another

and harder to breathe, and

unpredictable, but Brian was

kind to Ayla this morning, but now, he was ready to squeeze

him was like

Brian couldn't mollify his

and slam the car door on her side.Then, he went to the driver's seat and finally

moment, Ayla was still inebriated.She turned her gaze towards the

her heart was filled with sadness.She had told Lucas that they could never be lovers,

eyes on Brian's face showed that he was furious when he saw the absent-minded

the gas, speeding

was doing

isn't

she was by his side, she should carefully think

gripped the door's

had had too much to drink, and now she had an upset

this speed, no matter how much she endured or how badly she wanted to avoid sullying his car, she

his foot on the brake, the car

street before it steadily

dollars’ worth car was now

door, struggling

got

stood next to her, handing her a box of

going to drink this much

to know that there was no benefit in infuriating

took Ayla a long time before she could

the

of

nobody could bear it, not to

deliberately did that to make her

this what he wanted to happen?’ she

Brian helped Ayla up.

me just like that?

for him to get jealous.Brian can have any woman he wants.Why should he get jealous because of a woman he had

had been in a

to end their relationship, she still couldn't

Lucas or not was her