Chapter 80 is out now! Many more chapters to go still <3
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aLSO NEW Book name :— CUPID's ARROW
A collection of outtakes (unreleased chapters) from 'Shoot Your Shot' all through Jungkook's POV :
here's a snippet :
Part 1 : The Remarkable Mr. Kim
July. Three years previous.
Jungkook's whole world felt as though it was collapsing in on him, like some dying star in the far reaching vacuum of space, everything was being sucked into the vortex and destroyed.
How did it come to this?
He closed his eyes and felt a wetness forming beneath his lashes. He continued to swallow down the lump in his throat - his last ditch attempt at keeping myself together. His crystal whiskey glass was holding strong against his crushing grip, refusing to shatter, unlike his life.
Jungkook had eagerly opened the doors and welcomed in his self-induced pity party.
He didn't want this.
He never wanted this.
"I think I've got everything for now." She walked back into the room, looking defeated by their situation yet determined to... go. She was clutching her Gucci handbag tightly and shifting from one Manolo to the other.
Jungkook simply nodded stiffly. He didn't trust himself to articulate much more than that.
"The cab's on its way. I'll be at Izzie's if you need to reach me for anything."
He cleared his throat and whispered, "Alright."
Except that it wasn't.
None of this was alright, absolutely none of it.
Four years were about to be flushed down the toilet and there wasn't a damn thing that he could do about it, because deep down, it was the right thing to do. It hurt to admit that, oh how it hurt, but they were doing the right thing.
Jungkook couldn't give her everything that she wanted.
She couldn't be everything that he needed.
It came down to incompatibility... again.
How could two people love each other the way that they did, yet fundamentally be utterly wrong for each other?
God he loved her. It hurt how much he loved her. But he wasn't right for her.
Jungkook had given her his heart.
He had given her the flashy Mercedes that she had always dreamt of as a teenager.
He had given her the apartment on Park Avenue that she had always wanted for her own home. He had given her the lifestyle she craved to live, full of opulence, high society, parties and charity luncheons.
He had given her him — rich, successful, able to always support her and make her life a comfortable one full of luxury.
In many ways, she had bagged her 'perfect man'. It's what she had always wanted for her life.
Alarm bells had been ringing the day that Jungkook met her, admittedly. On the surface she seemed just another one of those 'types', the ones that he studiously tried to ignore.
But Kate was different, she had always been different.
She was everything that Jungkook tried to avoid in a woman and yet she was everything that he wanted.
Because underneath the trappings of wealth and the set up she desired, she had always wanted to be loved. She wanted her perfect life to be a happy one.
She was, despite everything that Jungkook thought he knew about women like her, a good person. She was so blindingly beautiful, inside and out. Her sweet, caring temperament was captivating and she rarely thought ill of anybody.
Friends and family often compared her to that Charlotte character from that God awful Sex and the City series.
Kate was a proper New York lady. She was what most would consider 'well bred'. And she'd challenged every perception Jungkook had, because she was wonderful.
And Jungkook knew that she loved him, very much so. He knew that now more than ever because she was about to give it all up and walk away.
Kate wasn't about to settle where most others would. Because through the haze of labels and name dropping and high society living, she had very basic wants for her life. Wants that he couldn't give her.
Jungkook couldn't give her my undivided attention and time.
He couldn't give her the diamond ring she so desperately wanted resting upon her wedding finger.
He couldn't give her the family she had always seen herself having.
He couldn't give her everything she had always wanted, despite his best efforts to try.
He couldn't make her happy, not in the long run.
Four years they'd been together. Four years and the acceptance over his working commitments had finally waned. Kate wanted a husband to come home to her, a husband to have children with, a husband who would give her all of his time. She wanted her happily ever after.
And Jungkook wasn't the man to give her it.
The truth could be a cruel, cruel thing.
They had never argued about it, not really. He felt it had become more of a gradual understanding on her part –
He just couldn't give her everything.
• • • to be continued • • •
i'm so excited for you all to read "Cupid's Arrow" 💕
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