The Worst Girlfriend in London

Chapter Originals

Immy Shaw is twenty-seven, two years into a column she never wanted, and one bad quarter from being made redundant. So when her editor asks for four thousand words on How to Lose a Man in Ten Days — pick one, do everything wrong, document it — she says yes, because the alternative is her CV. Beck Halloran is thirty-three, he runs a creative team of nine at an agency that is about to lose eleven jobs, and he has just been bet the Halcyon account that he cannot make one woman fall in love with him inside ten days. He does not want to take it. He takes it. They meet on a Thursday at a launch neither of them wanted to be at, and by the following Tuesday Immy has named a three-legged rescue whippet after him, invited herself on a work trip, put them both on a shared calendar called OUR FOREVER, and rung his mother. And Beck Halloran, who was supposed to be running a strategy, keeps laughing. Which is a problem. Because he is not falling for her the way the bet needs him to, he is falling for her the way people actually do — and she is writing all of it down.