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.

ended their relationship, which had

of that, Brian appeared at the

despite everything that had happened, she still couldn't forget about

called out Lucas’

tolerate it when

it was getting harder and harder to

were always unpredictable, but Brian was much more capricious than

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

him was like accompanying

a moment, Brian couldn't mollify his

and slam the car door on her side.Then,

still inebriated.She turned her

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

showed that he was furious when

stepped on the gas, speeding along

doing it

bold, isn't

let Ayla know that whenever she was by his side, she

gripped the door's safety

much to drink, and now she had an

how much she endured or how badly she wanted to avoid sullying his car, she would still

foot on the brake, the car was halted in front

car slid across the street before

dollars’ worth car

the door, struggling

got out, she immediately

her, handing

going to drink this

to know that there was no benefit

time

squatting on the

none of your

that nobody could bear it, not to mention that she was

he deliberately did that to make

what he wanted to happen?’ she

Brian helped Ayla up.

advantage of me just like that? You'd better forget about that

get jealous.Brian can have any woman he wants.Why should he

been in a

it upon herself to end

was her own business.It had