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No More Cheap Birthday Cupcakes

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No More Cheap Birthday Cupcakes is a novel in English. Chapters 1 and 2 can be read on this site as a free preview.

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From the back cover

On Alice's birthday, her boyfriend Dylan gives her a cheap pack of grocery-store cupcakes and one wax candle, calling real cakes a capitalist trap and insisting they save every penny for a house. Then her best friend Sally arrives, settles between them, and boasts that Dylan just paid eight thousand dollars to lease her new apartment downtown. A bank alert on Alice's phone shows four hundred thousand dollars wired to Sally, and Dylan explains it as funding for her grad school, even suggesting Alice chip in too.

Alice says she will go to the bank and empty what is left. She leaves the apartment, tosses the cheap ring Dylan once gave her, withdraws her share of their savings into a new private account, and buys herself an expensive cake and a hot pot birthday dinner. Dylan calls from Sally's apartment to say he is staying the night there. Alice hangs up, bags every cheap gift he ever gave her, and phones her father to say she is ready to return to New York for the family matchmaking meeting.

Inside the book Opening excerpt

He told me birthday cakes were nothing but a capitalist marketing trap, a distraction from our real goal: saving every penny for a down payment on a house.

I was hurt, but I swallowed my disappointment and agreed.

Then, on the evening of my birthday, my best friend breezed through our front door. She bypassed the empty chair and squeezed herself right onto the sofa between us, wrapping her arms around mine and preening.

"Oh my god, Dylan is literally the most amazing guy," Sally cooed, resting her head on his shoulder.

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Contents

Chapters 1 and 2 are on this page. Chapters marked with a lock continue in the official app.

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Which chapters of No More Cheap Birthday Cupcakes are free?

Chapters 1 and 2 are free to read on this page, in English. From chapter 3 the book continues in the official app.

Where do I keep reading No More Cheap Birthday Cupcakes after chapter 2?

In the official app. Install it, enter code 586798, and the book opens where this preview stops — chapter 3.

What is No More Cheap Birthday Cupcakes about?

On Alice's birthday, her boyfriend Dylan gives her a cheap pack of grocery-store cupcakes and one wax candle, calling real cakes a capitalist trap and insisting they save every penny for a house. Then her best friend Sally arrives, settles between them, and boasts that Dylan just paid eight thousand dollars to lease her new apartment downtown. A bank alert on Alice's phone shows four hundred thousand dollars wired to Sally, and Dylan explains it as funding for her grad school, even suggesting Alice chip in too.

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