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.

relationship, which had never been

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

happened, she still couldn't forget

even called out Lucas’ name when she was

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

getting harder and harder to breathe, and she was about to

were always unpredictable, but Brian was much more capricious than

so kind to Ayla this morning, but now, he was ready to squeeze the life out

was like accompanying

Brian couldn't mollify his

grip on her neck and slam the car door

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

was filled with sadness.She had told Lucas that they could

unfeeling eyes on Brian's face showed that he was

stepped on the gas,

was doing it

bold, isn't

that whenever she was

gripped the door's

had too much to drink, and now she had

driving at this speed, no matter how much she endured or how badly she wanted to

the car was halted in front of

street before it steadily

dollars’ worth car was

door, struggling to get

she got

handing her a box of

going to drink

there was no benefit in

a long time before

on the

none of

fast that nobody could bear it, not to mention that

deliberately did

he wanted to happen?’ she said in

Brian helped Ayla up.

can take advantage of me just

to get jealous.Brian can have any woman he wants.Why should he get jealous because of a woman he had once abandoned?’

in a relationship with

took it upon herself to end their relationship, she still couldn't forget

she could forget Lucas or not was her own business.It had absolutely