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.

had never been clear in the

appeared at the perfect

that had happened, she still

called out Lucas’

tolerate it when the woman of his dreams cared about another

felt 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

now, he was ready to squeeze

with him was

a moment, Brian couldn't mollify

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

inebriated.She turned her gaze towards the

Lucas that they could never be lovers,

that he was

on the gas, speeding

was doing it

bold, isn't

whenever she was by his side, she should carefully think about her

gripped the door's

had too much to drink, and

speed, no matter how much she endured or how badly she wanted to avoid sullying

foot on the brake, the car was halted in front of

slid across the street before it steadily came

the ten million dollars’ worth car was now

the door, struggling to get

got

to her, handing her a box of

to drink this

her to know that there was no

Ayla a long time before she

squatting on the pavement, she glared

of

fast that nobody could bear it, not to

deliberately did that to make

what he wanted to happen?’ she

Brian helped Ayla up.

me just like that? You'd better forget about

he jealous or something? I don't even think it's necessary for him to get jealous.Brian can have any woman he wants.Why should he get jealous because of

in a relationship

to end their

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