Death of a Bachelor // A “Beauty and the Beast” Coffeeshop AU
“Everything’s a risk these days”, Belle shrugged. “You moved to another continent just to be with the man you love. That was a risk.”
“Yes, it was”, Babette admitted. “But worst case scenario for me was returning to my family and admitting that I had been blind and stupid and wrong. You on the other hand might end up buried in the basement of the angriest man in Manhattan.”
Moving to New York City for her postgrad studying had been a dream come true for Belle Mallory. Not even a year later the harsh reality of living on her own has caught up with her. Long hours working on her dissertation are followed by long hours as a barista at “Mrs. Potts’ Coffeehouse and Bookshop” to make ends meet. Her peers at university think she’s odd - bookish even by their standards and barely even old enough to go out for a drink with them - so her co-workers at the coffeeshop are the closest she has come to making friends. And now she’s about to lose the apartment she’s sublet, because men are pigs and her “landlady” needs the place for herself again. Things are looking grim, but unexpected - very unextected - help arrives in the form of Adam Villeneuve, a handsome, but unreasonably angry young man who frequents the community center next door for court ordered anger management…
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