Why do you only want me when you're high?
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Penelope has spent years loving Colin Bridgerton, taking whatever he was willing to give her. Lately, that’s meant late nights, stolen kisses, and a version of him that never exists in daylight. Being his for a few fleeting days before he leaves on his travels again.
Until he comes home this time… and she says no.
What follows is the unraveling of everything they were: the easy familiarity, the unspoken rules, and the fragile illusion that it meant the same to him as it did to her. It forces Penelope to rethink their entire relationship and pushes her toward something new.
Enter Alfie.
Colin has never had to imagine a life without her before.
Now he has to figure out what she truly was to him, before he loses her forever.AKA: Penelope and Colin were never just friends… until she decides she won’t be anything less than everything.
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Set after “why do you only want me when you’re high”
Colin Bridgerton is running on one hour of sleep, a wounded ego, and the growing suspicion that his newborn son actively dislikes him.
Thomas cries for him.
Only for him.
Aggie replaces him.
Penelope laughs at him.And somewhere between a 2:30am breakdown, a brutally honest toddler intervention, and a humbling lesson in “supplying the goods,” Colin starts to wonder if he’s already failed at this whole fatherhood thing.
(It takes a quiet moment, a little patience, and a very small hand wrapped in his shirt to prove him wrong.)
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