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 first

appeared at the perfect time

that had happened, she still couldn't forget about

Lucas’

be, he couldn't tolerate it when the

harder and harder to

always unpredictable, but Brian was much more

this morning, but now, he was ready to squeeze the life out of

was

Brian couldn't mollify his

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

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

told Lucas that they could never be lovers, and

showed that he was furious when he saw the absent-minded

stepped on the gas, speeding along

doing

isn't she?’

let Ayla know that whenever she was by his side,

gripped the door's safety

had too much to drink,

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

the brake, the car was halted in front

street before it steadily came to a

dollars’ worth car was now

door,

she got

handing

to

there was no benefit

a long time before she could

was squatting on the pavement, she glared

of your

driving so fast that nobody could bear it, not to mention that she was

worse, he deliberately did that to make her

wanted to happen?’ she said in

Brian helped Ayla up.

of me just like that? You'd

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

been in a relationship with

herself to

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