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.

had

top of that, Brian appeared at the perfect time to ask Ayla to

that had happened, she still couldn't forget about

even called out Lucas’ name when

be, he couldn't tolerate it when the woman of his dreams cared about

felt that it was getting harder and harder to breathe, and she was about

always unpredictable, but Brian was much more capricious

was so kind to Ayla this morning, but now, he was ready to

was like accompanying a

Brian

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

moment, Ayla was still inebriated.She turned her gaze

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

eyes on Brian's face showed that

the gas, speeding along

was doing it on

isn't she?’ he

she was by his side, she should carefully think

gripped the door's safety handle

too much to drink,

no matter how much she endured or

the brake, the car was halted in front

car slid across the street before it steadily

million dollars’ worth car

opened the door, struggling to get

as she got out, she immediately started

to her, handing her

going to

her to know that there was

long time before she could recover

was squatting on the

none of your

that nobody could bear it, not to

deliberately did that to make

to

Brian helped Ayla up.

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

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

she had been in a

it upon herself to end

was her own business.It had absolutely