Chapter: NOT EVEN A LETTEREthan heard her before the guards announced her."I don't need to be escorted. I know where his chambers are." Celeste's voice carried down the corridor, sharp with a fury she wasn't bothering to soften for anyone listening. The door to the map room opened hard enough to strike the wall."Three weeks." She stood in the doorway, chin high, her eyes bright with something that hadn't decided yet whether it wanted to be tears or rage. "Three weeks, Ethan. Not a letter. Not a summons. Not so much as a servant sent to ask how I've been since you stood in front of the entire kingdom and chose me."Ethan looked up slowly from the papers he wasn't reading. "Celeste.""That's my name, she crossed the room, skirts snapping around her ankles. "I have spent three weeks fielding questions from every noble family in this court about wedding preparations, about a date, about anything at all I might tell them, and I have had nothing to offer them but silence, because my future husband has apparently f
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Chapter: THE FIRST COUNCILEmma didn't remember walking back to her chambers. She only remembered arriving, closing the door, and standing there with her back against it, breathing like she'd been running. I don't love you, Emma. I never did.She wanted to believe it was never true. It would have been so much simpler if it were true.Naya found her there twenty minutes later, still in the same spot, and didn't ask what had happened. She simply set down the gown she'd been carrying and waited, quiet, until Emma's breathing evened out on its own."The Council meets within the hour, Your Majesty," Naya said gently. "This is your first sitting at the Council. Emma had forgotten entirely. She almost laughed at the timing, some dark, tired humor bubbling up at the idea of walking straight from Ethan's cruelty into a room full of men who'd spent years calling her a curse and convincing her Dad that she was the major problem of his downfall. "Then I suppose I should get dressed," she said.The Council chamber was sma
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Chapter: A STRANGER WEARING HIS FACE "I thought I'd spend the night here." "Why would you think that?"The words landed like a slap. Emma's face went hot. "We're married. I didn't think it was strange to—""This is not your chamber." Jasper set down his pen with a precision that felt worse than a shout. "You have your own rooms. Use them if you want to sleep." Emma looked towards the bed. I..I thought this was what I was supposed to do? "I don't recall inviting you here." His voice was too harsh. Whatever happened on our wedding night was because I was drunk. I do not want you to think otherwise. Emma stood frozen in the doorway, humiliation crawling up her throat so fast she couldn't speak past it. "But I am your wife now. I thought wives…" She stopped there.I don’t want you to misunderstand the previous night. Never enter my chambers unless you are being summoned. He hadn't moved from his desk. He wasn't even looking at her fully now, his eyes already dropping back toward his papers. "Go back to your chambers, Emma
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Chapter: LORD ASHFORDThe door opened before Alden finished rolling up his map."Forgive the interruption." Lord Victor Ashford stepped into the tutoring chamber, his robes immaculate despite the hour, a folder of parchment tucked beneath one arm. "I was told I'd find the Queen still at her lessons."The tutors rose at once, bowing low. Emma stood more slowly, unsure of the correct amount of formality for a man she'd only seen from a distance at her wedding, at court, always near Jasper's shoulder like a fixture of the throne itself."Lord Ashford." She dipped her head. "I wasn't expecting you until this evening.""I'm early. A bad habit." He smiled, and it reached his eyes easily, the kind of smile that made a room relax around him. "I hoped I might speak with you before the council meets. If you can spare a few minutes." Emma glanced at Tobias, already gathering his books with the discreet haste of a man who understood exactly when a room no longer needed him."Of course," she said. The tutors filed out
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Chapter: LEARN TO BE A QUEENThe throne room felt too large once it was empty.Emma sat where she'd been left, hands still folded in her lap, listening to her own pulse slow down one beat at a time. The echo of Jasper's voice still rang somewhere behind her ribs. The next person who speaks to my wife, and for one foolish moment, warmth had started to unfurl in her chest.Then Jasper turned around, and whatever warmth she'd felt died instantly."What was that?" he said. Emma blinked. "I don't understand, Your Majesty.""Don't you?" He crossed the space between them in three hard strides, dust still clinging to his armor, and stopped close enough that she had to tilt her head back to hold his gaze. "You sat there. You let them circle you like you were prey. You let them call you a witch to your face, and you said nothing." His voice cracked through the empty hall. "You are the Queen of Valenmoor. Do you understand what that word means? It does not mean you sit quietly while lesser nobles decide what you are worth
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Chapter: NO ONE DISRESPECTS MY WIFEThe throne room smelled like beeswax and old stone, the same smell Emma had scrubbed out of the floor tiles a hundred times. Today it hit her differently. Today she wasn't kneeling in it.Every head turned as she entered. The murmur died in pieces, table by table, like a wave losing its strength before it reached the shore. By the time she reached the center of the room, the silence was total.She kept walking. Her legs remembered the path she'd swept this exact stretch of marble a dozen times, always with her eyes down, always careful not to be seen. Now she walked it upright, and it felt like wearing someone else's skin.Nobles. Dozens of them, dressed for the occasion, dressed to be seen judging her. Emma recognized faces from years of carrying trays past them, invisible then, unbearably visible now.The nobles greeted her one by one, as custom required, and Emma understood within the first three bows that "greeting" was only the word they used for it.She sat in the smaller throne
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The Billionaire's Curvy Prize
“I can get any woman I want, Queen. Models throw themselves at me every day. The only reason I’m still with your fat self is because I know no one else will want to be with you. I’m trying to help you.” For years, Queen believed those words were love from James her manipulative boyfriend who says he is doing her a big favor
At twenty-eight, Queen has spent her entire life fighting a battle she never chose. Bullied in school because of her size, mocked by strangers, rejected by men who treated her like she should be grateful for the smallest amount of attention, she grew up believing that being loved was a privilege reserved for women smaller than her.
But love slowly became conditions. When James gives Queen an impossible ultimatum—transform from a size 28 to a size 12 in just two months or risk losing him forever—she becomes desperate to prove she is worthy of being loved. Starving herself, exhausting herself, and sacrificing her self-respect one humiliating day at a time, Queen begins losing more than weight. She begins losing herself. Just when she thinks she has reached her breaking point, a chance encounter with billionaire hotel magnate Georgy Williams changes everything. For the first time in her life, Queen is faced with a terrifying question:
What if the problem was never her weight?
What if the people who claimed to love her were the ones who never deserved her?
A gripping, emotional billionaire romance filled with heartbreak, obsession, jealousy, self-discovery, and a curvy heroine determined to reclaim her worth.
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Chapter: BEHIND CLOSE DOORSThe hallway had barely gone quiet when Queen returned to her desk. She sat down, but she didn't open her laptop.Ava dropped into the chair beside her. "Are you okay?" Queen nodded. "I'm fine."Ava gave her a look. "You don’t look fine." Queen let out a tired breath. "I'm just annoyed.""Understandable." Queen glanced toward the conference room. Melissa had already disappeared."I can't believe she said that." “How can she say something like that about me?Ava's expression hardened. "Neither can I." Before Queen could say anything else, Richard's assistant appeared."Queen." Queen looked up. "Yes?" "Mr. Harrison wants to see you." Queen's stomach tightened."Now?" "Immediately." The assistant looked toward Ava. "He wants you too." Ava's eyebrows rose.Then she looked toward the hallway. "Melissa?" The assistant nodded. "All three of you."Ava leaned toward Queen. "Well." Queen picked up her notebook. "This should be interesting."They followed the assistant down the hallway. Melissa
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Chapter: SHE EARNED ITQueen and Ava arrived at T&B with a strange sense of calm. James's visit was still somewhere in the back of her mind.His demand. His assumption that she would come running back. His sudden talk about a wedding that didn't even have a ring attached to it.But she wasn't going to let him ruin her day. Not today. She walked into the office beside Ava."Coffee?" Ava asked. "Definitely." They had barely reached their desks when Queen noticed Melissa standing near the conference room.She was holding a folder. And she wasn't alone. Two junior associates were listening to her.Melissa noticed Queen. Her smile disappeared almost immediately. "Queen."Queen nodded. "Morning." Melissa looked at the folder in her hands. "So how is the Harbor View presentation going?"Queen stopped. "Going well." "Interesting." Ava glanced at Queen. There was something in Melissa's voice.Queen noticed it too. "I'll be presenting the acquisition brief." Melissa gave a small laugh."Right. Melissa opened the fold
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Chapter: RING THAT NEVER CAMEThe next morning came. Queen was halfway through fastening her earrings when the doorbell rang.She glanced at the clock. "Who is that this early?" Ava was in the kitchen, pouring coffee."Probably security." The bell rang again. Then again. Ava frowned. "Whoever it is, they're impatient."She walked toward the door. Queen picked up her handbag. Then she heard Ava's voice."What are you doing here?" Queen froze. She knew that voice. James. Her stomach tightened.She stepped out of the bedroom. Ava was standing in the doorway, blocking most of the entrance.James stood on the other side. His hair was slightly messy, his jaw tight, and there was an unmistakable irritation in his eyes.His eyes moved past Ava. The moment he saw Queen, his expression hardened."There you are." Queen stopped. "James." "I've been calling you." "I know." "And?" Queen said nothing. James looked at Ava."I need five minutes with my girlfriend." Ava didn't move. "Then talk to her here." James' eyes narrowed."T
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Chapter: THE SEAT AT THE TABLEThe next morning, Queen arrived at T&B earlier than usual. She had barely settled behind her desk when Richard's assistant appeared at the doorway."Mr. Harrison wants to see you." Queen looked up from her laptop. "Now?" "He said immediately."She nodded. "Thank you." She saved her work and picked up her notebook. As she walked toward Richard's office, she reminded herself not to overthink it.Yesterday had gone well. George had made it clear that he wanted her involved in every Harbor View meeting.That didn't mean Richard had suddenly changed his mind about her. If anything, she suspected the opposite.She knocked. "Come in." Queen entered. Richard was standing beside the window, reading through several pages.He didn't ask her to sit. "Close the door." She did. Richard turned around. "I spoke with Williams Hospitality this morning."Queen waited. "They want the next phase of Harbor View moved forward." "All right." "You'll be handling the preliminary coordination."Queen nodded. "I
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Chapter: WHAT MATTERS Queen was still smiling when she walked back into T&B. She didn't notice it at first. The moment she stepped into the office, she felt the difference. The place was quieter than it had been that morning.She set her handbag down and checked the documents she had brought back from Williams Hospitality.The meeting had gone well. Better than well, actually. George had approved several of her recommendations.But somehow, that wasn't the part of the afternoon she kept thinking about. It was the lunch.The conversation with George. The way George had looked at her when he told her about his Grandma, so casual.The way he'd held her hand before she got into the car. Queen shook her head. She had work to do.She picked up the Harbor View file and headed toward Richard's office. She knocked once."Come in." Queen opened the door. Richard was behind his desk, reading through a document.He looked up. "You're back?" "Yes, sir." "How did the meeting go?" Queen stepped inside."It went well."
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Chapter: LUNCHThe drive to the restaurant took less than twenty minutes. Queen had expected George to take her somewhere close to Williams Hospitality.George's driver was waiting outside when they stepped out of the building. Queen slowed for half a second when she saw the black sedan.She had expected them to walk somewhere nearby. Apparently, George Williams does not do less.He opened the rear door for her. "After you." Queen hesitated. "Thank you." She slipped inside.George followed. The door closed quietly behind them. As the car pulled away from Williams Hospitality, Queen glanced out the window.She still wasn't completely sure what she was doing. She had come to Williams Hospitality for a meeting.She had expected questions, and another round of Harbor View discussions. She hadn't expected lunch with the billionaire himself.George sat across from her, looking completely at ease. His phone rested in his hand, but he wasn't looking at it.Instead, his attention was on her. Queen noticed. "
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