chapter 7

No, Brad didn't have any bodies stashed away there. Actually, what Hilly found in his man cave didn't shock her in the slightest. In fact, it merely confirmed something for her that she had been suspecting for quite some time. Brad was a feeder.

Hilly had seen websites about feederism and weight gain. She had a subconscious attraction to the subject matter although she had always been somewhat reluctant to become a feedee herself. She had always been an independent woman and she thought that being a feedee was the ultimate kind of surrender of one's independence, especially is you REALLY let yourself go. But her fascination with gaining had always been more theoretical than real, that is until she met Brad.

What Hilly hadn't picked up on with the feeder/feedee relationship was the emotional aspect of it all. But when she made her discovery of what was in Brad's man cave, it all started to make sense to her.

You see, what she found there was a virtual rogue's gallery of women Brad had fattened up over the years. Not quite a shrine, more like a museum. There were before and after photos, whole albums of them for each woman. Hilly also saw that Brad took copious notes of the gradual transformation that HE had brought about, noting how he had made each of the women fall in love with him. How he very subtly, usually gradually and with painstaking forethought and devilish precision changed their eating and exercise habits. And more to the point, how he got them to actually ENJOY the changes he had wrought.

In some ways Hilly was devastated. She had always deluded herself into thinking that it was SHE and her radiant good looks that had captivated Brad. She thought she was playing HIM for a fool, using his apparent "attraction" for her to advance herself up the corporate ladder at the hospital. And here he was, playing her all the time.

Fortunately, Hilly didn't fall apart emotionally at this realization. She was made of sterner stuff. The first thing she did was take stock of herself. As much as she hated to admit it, Brad never forced her to do anything against her will. She ate all the food he sent her way because, on some level, she wanted to please him. And she wasn't under some magical spell or entranced by Brad's almost hypnotic personality. On some level she KNEW what all the food she was eating was doing to her, and on some level she enjoyed it. There was a thrilling sense of freedom in just letting herself go, of ruining a figure she had worked for over a year to achieve, of flouting society's standards of beauty. The fact that this also seemed to please Brad made it all the more powerfully erotic and totally mesmerizing.

Once she took ownership of the fat woman she had become, Hilly began to make plans. As much as this episode in her life was on HER, there's no question Brad had a lot to do with it. More to the point, she wasn't his first victim. She counted up all the women Brad had transformed from thin to chubby to fat to very fat to obese and they numbered twenty-two, twenty-two women who had been caught in Brad's web of fat. There had to be a price to pay, Hilly just had to figure out what the price was and how to make Brad pay it!