All Chapters of The Plus-Sized Bride No One Wanted: Too Fat to Love : Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

~ Ivy ~The dress was too tight, even though the lady at the store said it would hide my body. It was dark navy, made of heavy fabric that felt like a thick blanket wrapping around my ribs. Julian had ordered me to go to the Ashbourne Grand Ballroom for the charity gala. He did not ask me. He told me."You are coming as a prop," he had said before we left the house, his voice flat and mean. "People are talking about our marriage. Stand in the corner. Do not speak unless someone speaks to you. And for once, do not embarrass me."Now, I stood near a tall white pillar, away from the bright crystal chandeliers. The room was filled with hundreds of people in sparkly dresses and expensive suits. They laughed and drank wine from long glasses. Nobody looked at me with kindness.Two women in shiny gold dresses stopped a few feet away. They looked at me, then looked down at their own small waists. They did not try to hide their voices."Look at her gown," the first woman whispered, loudly enoug

~ Ivy ~The asphalt was freezing against my cheek. I could feel the sharp little rocks of the road digging into my skin, but I could not move my head to pull away. My body felt like a bag of heavy stones. Every breath I took felt small and shallow, barely reaching my chest.A few feet away, the white sheets of my divorce papers made a soft, scratching sound as the wind dragged them across the dirt. You came with nothing, so you leave with nothing, the guard had said. Julian’s final words through the intercom still buzzed inside my ears, louder than the wind. I do not care if you have to sleep on the street. I closed my eyes. The cold road seemed to fade away, and my mind drifted backward, slipping into old memories that felt just as dark and cold as the night. I was eight years old, standing in the bright hallway of my childhood home. The floor was covered in a thick, soft rug that never hurt my feet. Through the open door of the master bedroom, I watched my mother, Victoria, zip up

~ Ethan ~"Get another bag of O-negative blood hooked up to her line right now!" I shouted, my voice cutting through the loud, frantic beeps of the heart monitor.The emergency room was a blur of blue scrubs and silver metal trays. Two nurses rushed around the metal bed, their sneakers squeaking against the clean white floor. One of them squeezed a plastic bag of blood, forcing the dark red liquid down the clear tube and into Ivy’s arm."Her body temperature is still way too low, Dr. Knight," Nurse Clara said. She quickly pulled two more heavy electric warming blankets over Ivy’s shivering frame. "She is shaking so hard the chest stickers keep falling off.""Keep the blankets on high," I said. I grabbed a small flashlight and shined the bright beam into Ivy’s eyes. Her pupils were slow to move. She looked completely hollow, like an empty house with the lights turned off. "We need to get her warm from the inside out. Hang another bag of heated saline fluids.""Right away, Doctor," Clar