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.

which had

at the perfect time to

that had happened, she still couldn't

even called out Lucas’ name

couldn't tolerate it

and harder

were always unpredictable, but Brian was

to Ayla this morning, but now, he was

him was like

a moment, Brian

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

Ayla was still inebriated.She turned her gaze

told Lucas that they could never be lovers, and that they could only

cold, unfeeling eyes on Brian's face showed that

the gas, speeding

doing it

bold, isn't she?’ he

was by his side, she should carefully think about

door's safety

to drink, and

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

brake, the car was halted in front

street before it

ten million dollars’ worth car was now

the door, struggling to

as she got out,

to her, handing her a box of

you going to

there was no benefit in infuriating

a long time before she

on the pavement, she

none of

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

worse, he deliberately did

to happen?’

Brian helped Ayla up.

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

can have any woman he wants.Why should he

in a

took it upon herself to end their relationship, she still

or not was her own business.It had absolutely