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.

their relationship, which had never been clear in the first

appeared at the perfect time to

happened, she still couldn't forget

even called out Lucas’ name when she was

couldn't tolerate it when the woman of his

harder and harder

were always unpredictable, but Brian was

but now, he was ready to squeeze the

was like

a moment, Brian couldn't mollify his

the car door on her side.Then, he went to the driver's seat and

was still inebriated.She turned her gaze towards the passing

with sadness.She had told Lucas that they could

that he

gas,

doing it

isn't

Ayla know that whenever she was by

gripped the door's safety handle

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

much she endured or how badly she wanted to avoid

on the brake, the car was halted in front of

the street before it

dollars’ worth

opened the door,

got out,

next to her, handing her a box of

to

that there was no

time before she could

was squatting on the pavement, she glared

none of

bear it, not to

to make it worse, he deliberately did

he wanted to happen?’ she said in

Brian helped Ayla up.

can take advantage of me just

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

had been in

herself to end their relationship, she still

she could forget Lucas or not was her own business.It had absolutely nothing to do with