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 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

tolerate it when

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

but Brian was much more capricious than

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

with him was like accompanying

moment, Brian couldn't mollify

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

Ayla was still inebriated.She turned her gaze towards

that they could never be lovers,

cold, unfeeling eyes on Brian's face showed that he was

on the gas, speeding along

doing it on

isn't

to let Ayla know that whenever she was by

the door's

drink,

or how badly she wanted to avoid sullying his

the brake, the car

the street before it steadily came

the ten million dollars’ worth car was now

opened the door, struggling to

soon as she got out, she immediately started

stood next to her, handing her a box of

you going to drink this much

there

time before she

she was squatting on the pavement, she glared at

none of your

was driving so fast that nobody could bear it,

deliberately did that to make

what he wanted to happen?’ she said

Brian helped Ayla up.

of me just like that? You'd better forget

can have any

had been in a relationship with

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

she could forget Lucas or not was her own