This Is NOT a K-Drama! The Enemies-with-Benefits Romcom for K-fans! by Venezia Phillips

Author:Venezia Phillips [Phillips, Venezia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-15T23:00:00+00:00

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THURSDAY, 2 JUNE 2022 – DOWNSTAIRS, LONDON ROAD, SLOUGH

In his boxers at the kitchen table, Lucien drinks his third coffee in a row. The caffeine rush makes his brain fuzzy and his gut ache. Or perhaps, it’s the self-disgust.

There seems to be no limit to how low he will go. He’s known for a while he’s an absolute cunt, but he keeps surprising himself.

Yesterday, for the first time, he hurt her.

The armour-plated girl. The army of one.

He hurt her.

With cold, cruel lies.

But you can’t keep Minah down. Oh, no.

She drops everything to rescue you.

You shoot her down with poisoned arrows.

She walks out like a queen.

And then she brings you some shopping.

Because now he can hurt her, but it only takes her a few hours to bounce back, like he never meant anything to her in the first place.

They could do this toxic fuck-buddy routine forever, and her heart wouldn’t bleed once.

She has her Bangtan, her oppas, and now she has his family. He threw them out, and she took them in.

A few weeks ago, he would have held it against her and called it stealing his family. But who is he kidding? They’re better off with her.

He’s been feeling nauseous, so to settle his stomach he munches on the cereal she bought for him – the one G likes, only it’s the actual brand not the knock-off.

That’s Minah for you. Always spending on stupid stuff.

He takes the maximum dose of the painkillers she remembered to buy for him and washes the tablets down with orange juice.

Not eating had cured his heartburn. Hopefully that won’t return now he’s got food, because she didn’t think of buying Gaviscon.

After she left him naked in his bed, he stood at the edge of an endless pit of suffering. One misstep and he would be feeling all of it, and he couldn’t afford that. Not when his financial situation had not improved, and the rift with his family looked increasingly like it would never heal.

Feelings were not an option.

He needed something to do, so he sent off a bunch of emails to streetwear companies that might be interested in a slice of the e-sport market. As Minah suggested, he attached a photo of the team. Although there no longer is a team, it’s time for desperate measures and dodgy business practices. He was shameless with the people he loves, he can be shameless with the people he needs.

At ten o’clock, he receives a phone call. Perhaps a response to his emails already. He picks it up with a buzz of excitement.

“Hello, Lucien Hunter.”

“Mr Hunter, my name is Jimmy Wallace, I’m calling from the Debts R U collection agency. We have received a claim lodged by Mr Richard Bigelow concerning a twenty thousand pounds penalty clause and a twelve per cent monthly interest.”

Lucien’s body goes into spasms. “Twelve per cent?”

“Monthly.”

“That’s not in the contract!”

“Clause 21.c.ii reads ‘LIBOR plus ten per cent’.”

“That’s a typo.”

“It’s written in numbers and letters.”

“I can’t pay that.”

“Yes, this is what Mr Bigelow indicated and the reason for our involvement.

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