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 never been clear in

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

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

Lucas’ name when she

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

that it was getting harder and harder to breathe, and she was about to lose

were always unpredictable, but Brian was much more capricious than

kind to Ayla this morning, but now, he was

him was like

a moment, Brian couldn't mollify

to loosen his grip on her neck and slam the car door on

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

sadness.She had told Lucas that they could never be lovers,

eyes on Brian's face showed that he

on the gas, speeding

was doing

bold, isn't she?’

wanted to let Ayla know that whenever she was by his side, she should

the door's

had too much to drink, and now she had

endured or

foot on the brake, the car was

street before it steadily came to

million dollars’ worth car

the door, struggling to

soon as she got out, she

next to her, handing her

to drink this

know that there was

time

on the pavement,

of

that nobody could bear it, not

worse, he deliberately did that to make her

he wanted to happen?’ she

Brian helped Ayla up.

advantage of me just like that?

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

had been in a relationship

upon herself to end their relationship, she

her own business.It