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.

finally ended their relationship, which had never

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

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

even called out Lucas’ name

generous Brian could be, he couldn't tolerate it when

and harder to breathe, and she was about to lose

were always unpredictable, but Brian was much

this morning, but now, he

with him was like accompanying a

Brian

decided to loosen his grip on her neck and slam the car door on her side.Then, he went to the driver's

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

had told Lucas that they could never be lovers, and

Brian's face showed that he was

the gas, speeding along

was doing

bold, isn't she?’ he

know that whenever she was by his side, she should carefully think

gripped the door's safety

much to drink, and now she had an

Brian kept driving at this speed, no matter how much she endured or how badly she wanted to avoid sullying his

car was halted in front

the street before it

ten million dollars’ worth

opened the door, struggling

got out,

to her, handing

going to drink this much

to know that there was no benefit in

took Ayla a long time before she could recover from

she was squatting on the pavement, she glared

of your

bear it, not to mention that she

worse, he deliberately did that to make

this what he wanted to happen?’ she said in

Brian helped Ayla up.

you can take advantage of me just like that?

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

in a

she took it upon herself to

her own business.It had absolutely nothing