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The Rash Decisions of George and Bertha Russell by Incirrata
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
08 Jul 2026
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“You are what?” George asked, freezing in place.
He was drunk enough. Perhaps she could still convince him he heard her wrong the first time. But god, she had barely any control over her actions as it was, her body shaking with anger, her skin prickling with need to hurt him as much as he had insisted on hurting her.
“Alfred Merrick proposed to me, and I said yes. We are getting married."
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When the consequences of their past decisions threaten to destroy everything they’ve built together, George and Bertha must decide whether to take the opportunity to finally part ways for good or to set aside their quarrels and fight for their family. Neither option comes without a cost.
About twenty years before, Bertha and George meet too late.
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"Once this contract is signed, I'll have boxed Gould out of the Pacific Northwest at last." George paused, grinning; the idea of it was simply too delicious not to savor. "But to do that, I'm afraid I may need your help, my dear."
"Name it." Bertha pressed herself up onto her toes to steal a kiss before leaning back in his arms again. "You know you need only to ask."
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George Russell is one of America's most renowned pastry chefs. If only he could convince Clay to let him stop taking these wedding cake special orders. He hates wedding cakes. And he especially hates dealing with brides. He'll just handle this last one, for this Bertha Connolly, and then he'll get back to what he actually enjoys.
In which George is grumpy but besotted, Bertha is engaged to someone who definitely isn't him, and the rest of our cast of characters have to deal with all the headaches that ensue from those two central facts.
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George suffers the dual frustrations of he and Bertha falling out at the same time as a competitor's railway station resort rises in popularity. Bertha suffers the dual frustrations of she and George falling out and therefore not having a focus point for the information she might happen to pick up.
Sometimes, you have to work at cross-purposes for a while to meet back in the middle.