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Chapter 41: In Which She Wears A Wedding Gown
The girl in the mirror looked like a vision to behold, the white mermaid gown hugged her curves in all the right places and showed off her delicate figure, yet the girl in the mirror looked sullen.
That beauty of the shine in her eye, apples of her cheeks that were always tinted crimson, the life on her face altogether wasn't present.
Instead, she had lost a lot of weight, the cheekbones on her face more prominent than ever before, her eyes red from crying and those exquisite collar bones all the more boney.
Isla felt like throwing up seeing herself in her wedding gown. She didn't find herself attractive at all
She had immensely lost weight and they had to alter her wedding gown two times, this being the third one as she stood for the fitting.
Two complete weeks had passed and tomorrow was her doomsday considering she was to be wedded to Jamerson Siegel tomorrow.
Isla had countless break downs. She couldn't stop thinking about Alexander no m
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