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

of that, Brian appeared at the perfect

despite everything that had happened, she still couldn't forget about

out Lucas’ name when she

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

harder to breathe, and she was about to

but Brian was much

but now, he was ready to squeeze

him was like accompanying a

Brian couldn't

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

moment, Ayla was still inebriated.She turned her

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 he was furious when

gas, speeding along the

doing

isn't

she was by his side, she should carefully think about

gripped the door's

to drink, and now

she endured or how badly she wanted

foot on the brake, the car

car slid across the street before it steadily came to

the ten million dollars’ worth car

door, struggling to get

soon as she got out, she immediately

handing her a box

you going to drink

to know that there was no benefit in infuriating

time before she could recover

the pavement,

of

driving so fast that nobody could bear it, not to mention that she was

make it worse, he deliberately did that to

to happen?’ she said in

Brian helped Ayla up.

advantage of me just like that? You'd better

it's necessary for him to get jealous.Brian can have any woman

been in a

upon herself to end their

or not was her own business.It had absolutely