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 the first

appeared at the perfect time to

she still couldn't forget

out Lucas’ name when she

tolerate it when

and harder to breathe, and she

but Brian

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

with him was like

a moment, Brian couldn't mollify his

on her neck and slam the car door on her side.Then,

Ayla was still inebriated.She turned

her heart was filled with sadness.She had told Lucas that they could never be lovers, and that they could only be

face showed that

gas, speeding along the

doing

bold, isn't

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

door's safety

had too much to drink, and now

Brian kept driving at this speed, no matter how much she endured or how badly she wanted to avoid sullying his car, she

car was halted in

before it steadily came to a

the ten million dollars’ worth car

door, struggling

got out,

her, handing her a

you going to

her to know that there was no benefit in

Ayla a long time before she could recover

squatting on the pavement, she glared at

of

that nobody could bear it, not to mention that she

it worse, he deliberately did that to make

this what he wanted to

Brian helped Ayla up.

of me just like

can have any

had been in a relationship

she took it upon herself to end

Lucas or not was her own