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A warmth spread through her, consuming her, until even the air seemed too thick to draw into her lungs. She pressed her palms against her knees, as though to steady herself, yet her mind would not be stilled. She saw again that brief flash of his smile, the one that had undone her entirely, and her breath trembled.
What foolishness this was. What wicked foolishness. And yet… she could not summon the shame she knew she ought to feel. Her sisters often spoke of temptation as something that hunted the innocent, but Penelope could not help but feel, in that moment, that it was she who hunted it.
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Deemed hopeless on the marriage market and quietly sent away to a convent, Penelope spends five quiet years trying to tame her heart before taking her vows. But when a young farmer begins assisting Sister Agatha, his gentle presence awakens feelings she ought never to harbour. Try as she might, Penelope cannot banish these wicked longings, nor the dangerous hope that her life beyond the convent walls might yet be her own.
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She lifted three fingers in front of his face, steady and unamused. “How many fingers am I holding up?”
Colin smirked, shifting on the bench despite the throb in his head. “Twenty,” he quipped, voice low, teasing.
Her unimpressed stare hit him harder than any punch he’d taken tonight. Without breaking her gaze, she turned her head toward Arch. “Looks like you still don’t know how to pick a smart fighter, Dad. This one doesn’t even know how to count.”
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After taking a bad hit, Colin’s coach calls the only person who can help; his estranged daughter, a reluctant paramedic. Colin thinks their tense encounter is the last he’ll see of her… until his sister introduces him to her classmate.
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“But you can’t go alone,” she added, her gaze meeting his with quiet conviction.
Colin’s lips quirked. “You sound as though you’re volunteering.”
Penelope’s smile was faint, but her eyes gleamed with the same spark he had always known; when she found a story, when she had uncovered some hidden truth others missed.
“Someone has to keep you from getting trampled in traffic.”
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A year after his disappearance, and the Brazilian government’s eventual declaration of his death, Colin and Penelope journey into the same jungle where Edmund Bridgerton vanished, seeking answers. But as they brave the wild together, they find that the greatest discovery is not what lies hidden in the jungle, but within their hearts.
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Built by Hand by yellowbrickroad
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
14 Aug 2025
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“Joel,” you said, almost unsure why you were saying his name.
He looked at you again, like he’d wait all night if you needed him to.
But instead of saying what you wanted to say—what terrified you to say—you offered a small, broken smile and whispered, “Thank you.”
And Joel, ever steady, just nodded once. “Anytime.”
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When Joel Miller is hired to renovate your kitchen, it seems like just another project. That is, until the days stretch on, walls come down, and something unexpected begins to take shape. Amid the dust and drywall, you find yourself growing attached to the rugged older contractor, and before long, you’re no longer just picturing a new kitchen, but a life with him in it.
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Colin looked around at his siblings, buzzing with wine and energy, ready to take the night into unknown territory, and then at Penelope again. The corner of her mouth twitched like she was holding in a question.
His heart gave a quiet thud in response.
“Are you in, Colin?” Eloise asked, leaning toward him with mischief glowing in her expression.
Colin hesitated. He could barely focus on the game they’d just played, let alone making such a snap decision. But if Penelope was going…
He turned to her, raising a brow. “What about you, Pen? Feeling adventurous tonight?”
Her lips curved into a smile that felt like a secret. “A little adventure never hurt anyone.”
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Colin has only one mission tonight: to ensure Penelope never completes the dare she’s been given in the mischievous game his siblings have set in motion.
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Shane is the one naked and dripping wet, and he still feels like Ilya is the one who exudes sex. Just standing there, brushing his teeth. When Shane turns off the water, Ilya hands him a towel and then turns around to rinse his mouth with the hotel mouth wash. He leaves the bathroom before Shane is done, and this is the moment where a tiny inkling Shane has ignored all day becomes a full blown suspicion.
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Shane and Ilya are having trouble balancing their very private relationship and their very public lives.
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06 Jan 2026
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Colin is a new man, and he might take his pick of the Ton's beauties — so it makes little and less sense that he finds himself at a ball (he forgets whose — forgets nearly everything, in fact), struck dumb by the sight of her.
Penelope Featherington. Standing at the refreshment table with an eclair in hand, her eyes wide as she darts her gaze about to make sure no-one is watching her (not wide enough, apparently, for she does not see him).
Has she always been so… has she always been so? So much, so plump and spilling, so soft all over? Fresh and bright as the cream oozing from the end of her eclair, and he wonders if he pressed his thumb into the swell of her decolletage, how deep would it sink? How would she dimple and spill beneath his touch?
He watches, transfixed, as her pink tongue darts out to wet her plush lips, so rosy and pretty (the same colour as her round blushing cheeks). Watches those little thumb-print dimples appear as her mouth opens and she bites into the eclair, her lashes fluttering at the sweetness. God, to be the chocolate upon her tongue, the soft pillow of the pastry with the cold, clear cream within! Colin's mouth floods with saliva.
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02 Nov 2025
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While on a journey around the world to cope with his failed engagement, Colin Bridgerton stumbles upon a supernatural curse—or gift—that allows him to see how long a person has left to live. However, when he sees his best friend Penelope Featherington is running out of time, he has to confront what it would mean to lose her and figure out a way to stop that from ever happening.
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19 Sep 2025
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False Grudges and Unexpected Sleepovers by moulesfrites (evilcookie) for LightLeadingMe
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Apr 2024
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“We could share,” she said, hoping she sounded more aloof than agitated. “It's not like I take up a lot of room.”
Colin stared at her. “Are you sure?” he asked.
She blushed. “I mean, it's just for a few hours, right? I'm sure you can manage to sleep beside a girl without touching her for a change.”
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Enemies to lovers in one bed with a dash of praise kink.
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16 Sep 2025
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All his weight is on her. Like, all of it. His face has landed somewhere near her hair, his face buried in a cloud of sweet-smelling curls. She smells like orange blossom, like the Jo Malone bottle currently sitting in Colin’s pile of gifts for her.
And he waits for her to wriggle and push him off but instead she - she moans.
More of a breathy whimper, actually, and it is, frankly, pornographic. There is no mistaking it, and something hot and sparkly starts to fizz in him, laughter bubbling in his throat.
So he doesn’t get off her. He just lifts his head. “Pen, did you just-”
Her face is red, scrunched up, her eyes shut. “Shut up,” she breathes.
Delight flutters through him at her reaction, something fizzling and crackling under his skin. He cannot help the wicked smile that breaks across his face. “Oh my god, you like it? You like me squashing you?”
OR - during Christmas at Aubrey Hall, Colin discovers Penelope enjoys getting crushed
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22 Jun 2025