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

of that, Brian appeared at the perfect time to ask

happened, she still couldn't

Lucas’ name when she

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

getting harder and harder to breathe, and she was about

Brian was much more capricious

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

with him was like accompanying

moment, Brian couldn't mollify his

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

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

showed that he was furious when

the gas, speeding along the

doing it on

isn't she?’ he

Ayla know that whenever she was by his side, she should

door's

had had too much to drink, and now she had an

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

the brake, the car was halted

the street before it

the ten million dollars’ worth car was

door, struggling to

as she got out,

stood next to her, handing her a

going to drink

know that there

Ayla a long time

she was squatting on the pavement,

of your

driving so fast that nobody could bear it, not

to make it worse, he deliberately did that

this what he wanted to happen?’ she said in

Brian helped Ayla up.

advantage of me just like that? You'd better forget about that

have any woman he wants.Why should he

she had been in a

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

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