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Michaela had prepared for the meeting and felt confident it would go without a hitch. Lord Spencer was a respectable man and a good business partner. What she did not prepare for was the sudden sensation of cold hands on her ankles beneath the desk.
Michaela's entire body went rigid. Her eyes flew downward, though the desk's prevented her from seeing what she already knew with absolute certainty. Francesca had not left the office at all. She had hidden herself beneath the desk, in the shadowed space where Michaela's legs rested, and was now touching her.
"Lady Kilmartin." He bowed. "Thank you for seeing me today."
Francesca's hands were sliding up her calves now, pushing the fabric of her red dress higher with agonizing slowness. "Please, let us start."
As Spencer settled further into the chair opposite, Michaela gripped the arms of her own chair with white-knuckled force. What was Francesca thinking? This was madness. Absolute madness.
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Consider this an unofficial two-chapters sequel of grief-bound tension aka what they are up to (in the bedroom) a couple years after they get together officially
I might add other chapters later but for now two chapters it isBookmarked by swirls
27 May 2026
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A series of flashes in her mind: Rhaenyra’s head in her lap under the weirwood tree, her crystalline eyes alight. Syrax, saddled for two, soaring across the Narrow Sea to worlds unknown. The ripped page she still keeps locked away in her chambers, alongside a piece of her heart.
Alicent can no longer afford to cling to Rhaenyra’s words like a promise. Yet after the longest of winters, there’s something addictive about the possibility of being consumed by dragonfire.
or, Rhaenyra returns on dragonback. Alicent feels her presence like the rising sun. Post-1x08.
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18 May 2026
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Francesca waits up for Michaela. She has stopped being embarrassed by that—and by what she wants once Michaela finally comes to bed.
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09 May 2026
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Grief-bound Tension by julie6769
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Apr 2026
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Francesca has a hunch, silence is not an option when Michaela Stirling is around. "Have you seen Miss Stirling tonight? Has she gone to bed already?"
"Did Miss Stirling not inform you?" The maid wondered.
"Of what?" She mumbles.
"She has packed her belongings and left." For a moment, the world stills. The candlelight, the soft rustle of the maid’s apron—everything suspends. Francesca cannot move. She cannot think. She can only feel the now familiar, suffocating sense of loss settle over her again. Michael too, must think something is broken in her.
On the far edge of the ton, Michaela sits rigidly in her carriage, watching the night sky blur past the window. She wonders whether John is there watching over her. Grieving is certainly draining, but Michaela cannot help but be consumed by guilt. Guilt for leaving Francesca alone despite her promise to stay in Mayfair. But deeper still, guilt for the quiet flutter she felt when Francesca’s hand touched hers in the parlor. If fleeing to the farthest corner of the earth is what it takes to silence her own wicked mind, then she will flee. Even if it means breaking her promise.
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23 Apr 2026
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For once, Michaela is the one with the questions, and Francesca the one willing to answer.
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15 Apr 2026