2 Works by TeaInTheLibrary
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Sophie wants to avoid being compromised into marriage by desperate gentlemen.
Benedict wants to avoid being compromised into marriage by eager ladies.
The mutual solution to this satisfies the Queen, pleases Violet Bridgerton, and is a constant heart attack for the actual participants.
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He asks her to call him Benedict. Stumbles over whether she reads, reads French, then asks her to forgive him like he’s sincere, like she’s a débutante. She laughs at him like she’s trying not to flirt, like she knows he’ll take the joke.
She doesn’t know if he uses the French familiar (on, vu) for informality or for rank, corrects him to the formal vous like she’s an equal, like she’s putting distance between them.
…She touches him like she’s changed her mind, like she has the right to, rough cheek and warm breath, whispers watch me with the boldness only another language can give her, champagne-heady with the impression that he is not focusing on his lips so much as hers.
Or: Benedict and Sophie haunt the liminal space between fantasy and reality.