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    Colin and Penelope hook up and shit gets complicated. But at least the sex is good.

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    Penelope was standing at the edge of a cliff, debating if she should fall. She knew he was baiting her. Why he was baiting her, she didn’t quite understand yet. At the end of the day, whether it was the alcohol, the endless sense of frustration, or moreso just the idea that she had nothing left to lose, she decided to leap.

    “I wasn’t. I wasn’t thinking of them when I drank.”

    Colin turned his head away from her and looked out at the street in front of them, a smile pulling at his lips. “No? Well that’s interesting.”

    “Is it?”

    He faced her again, taking half a step forward. “Who were you thinking of?” His eyes drilled into hers with surgical precision, the dark blue getting darker.

    She took a deep breath, feeling the blood heating in her veins.

    “You.”

    “Me?”

    She nodded pathetically, any attempts to be playful and witty blown away with the breeze.

    “You want to fuck me, Pen?” His smirk was subtle, but wicked, his words sending a delicious zing down between her legs again where she throbbed at even the notion.

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    Colin Bridgerton returns home from three years’ worth of traveling to find that everything and everyone in the Ton is just the same as the way he left them. At least, that is what seems to be the case until he attends the first ball of the season at Lady Danbury’s estate and reunites with his dear friend and most consistent correspondent, Penelope Featherington. It is not long into their first dance that the rug is pulled from beneath both of their feet and everything, quite literally everything, between them changes.

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    Or, Colin is an Alpha, Penelope might not really be a Beta, and they are bonded in a way that defies logic and precedence.

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    It struck him as odd that he didn’t hear from her, not even once, the entire time he had been away; he had written to her, letter after letter, all that he had seen while he was away like he had done on his first tour, but every letter had gone unanswered.

    Part of him could have given up, but there was a feeling in him that he should not. So, he continued writing. He told her everything he could, and asked after her health, her wellbeing, her happiness. He wrote promises that if he had done something wrong, he could work to rectify it. It would not do to have a rift in their friendship. It was much too important to him.

    In the back of this carriage, he wonders about his friend, with her curling red hair and her rosy cheeks. He hopes that she is well.

    He hopes—

    Well, he isn’t sure what he hopes. Something must have occupied her time for the off-season, had taken away from her quills and her paper, had taken her away from him.

    An odd thought, he thinks. She isn’t his, to begin with. She is his friend. And still, there is something so bothersome about not hearing from her. It was common to feel unsettled about not hearing from one’s friend, of that, he is sure.

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    “...we invest the said Mr. Colin Bridgerton, and the lawful heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, to the dignity, title, style, and honor of Marquess of Hartleigh…”

     

    His throat had gone dry. The words on the page did not make sense to him.
    “Um,” he tried, chuckling hoarsely. “Your Majesty, what is - I don’t…”
    “Yes?”
    Eloquence escaped him. “…what is this?”
    The Queen looked mildly annoyed. “Why, I should think it is obvious. You, Mr. Bridgerton, are to be the next Marquess of Hartleigh.”

    One accidental act of heroism, and Colin Bridgerton finds himself elevated to the British peerage. Yet the Queen’s reward comes with a price: as the newly minted Lord Hartleigh, he’s been given an ultimatum - produce an heir within the next eighteen months. And, of course, to do so, he requires a wife. Urgently.

    So why can’t he just pick a debutante and be done with it? And why is he far more interested in spending time in the very enjoyable company of his very good friend, Penelope Featherington?

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    Jane first asked about her dad when she was four.

    By the time Jane was six, she didn’t care that she didn’t have a dad, all she wanted was for Uncle Colin to be her dad. He was incredible and she wanted someone that incredible to be her dad.

    Or fed up at age nine, Jane Featherington asks her aunts and uncles to help make her Uncle Colin her dad.

    (Chaos obviously ensues.)

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