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 never been clear in the

appeared at the perfect time to

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

Lucas’ name

couldn't tolerate it when the

was getting harder and harder to

Brian was

this morning, but now, he was ready to

with him was like

moment, Brian couldn't

loosen his grip on her neck and slam the

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

had told Lucas that they could never be

face showed that he was furious when he saw the

stepped on the gas,

was doing it

bold, isn't she?’

that whenever she was by

gripped the door's safety

drink, and now she

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

car was halted in front of the apartment

street before it

dollars’ worth car was now

opened the door, struggling

got out, she immediately

handing her a box of

you going to drink

there was

took Ayla a long time before she could

squatting on the pavement,

none of

driving so fast that nobody could bear it, not

it worse, he deliberately did that

what he wanted to happen?’

Brian helped Ayla up.

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

jealous or something? I don't even think it's necessary for him to get jealous.Brian can have

in a

if she took it upon herself to end their relationship, she

or not was her own business.It had absolutely nothing