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    “Look,” he says, his voice low, his eyes cast down. “You’re not, like, wrong, exactly.” His cheeks are flushed a delightful pink, and Penelope thinks, not for the first time, how good he would look in makeup. He has the features for it, cheeks begging for blush and those full lips. Long, fluttering lashes.

    “Wh-what?” she stutters, the intoxication of having him this close making her lose it, just a little.

    “Since Marina, I can’t… I can’t. You know. Finish.”

    Penelope blinks at him. “Um. Okay.” She doesn’t know what to say.

    “I kind of have this pretty specific thing I need to happen for me to, you know.” God, he’s still speaking. Colin Bridgerton is talking to her about his orgasm. The negronis are suddenly making themselves known in her limbs and chest. She feels woozy. Are they really talking about this? “And usually I have a way I manage it, but since Marina it’s just not working.” He bites his lip and for the first time since he leaned over the bar, his eyes flicker to hers nervously. “It’s actually making me go a tiny bit insane, I think.”

    OR: Colin can't come. Penelope offers to help - as friends, of course.

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    It's the dark times for the world: tyranny, curfew, questionable ways to put food on the table.

    It's also a time when your brother's old school bully comes to your doorstep wounded and bleeding.

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    The bi-annual Omega Auction is upon us and taking place in Mayfair this week, dear readers! All eligible debutantes may enter once again for the chance at ensnaring an Alpha mate.

    Perhaps this year, even a perpetually unimpressive wallflower such as Miss Penelope Featherington will be able to secure a proposal...

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    As Colin looked at the pair from across the ballroom, the jealousy bloomed grotesquely in his chest, like a large carnivorous plant that threatened to swallow him whole. When Penelope took Lumley by the elbow, Colin felt a phantom weight at his own side, taking his arm. In that moment, he could not help the image that flashed into his mind— Penelope on his arm, beaming up at him. Her eyes were shining as they usually did in those small moments between just the two of them. The jealousy was overtaken by something else, a kind of…yearning. To have Penelope at his side, to have her look at him like that again.

    It was at exactly that moment that Penelope turned to scan the ballroom, and her gaze caught his.

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    Yet another addition to the world of Season 3 speculation! This will definitely follow show canon more than book canon, with some references to the book along the way.
    Work Title comes from "Starlings" by Elbow, one of my favorite Polin songs and one of the best songs ever, generally speaking.

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    Penelope felt her cheeks heat. “A forfeit is usually a- a-”

    “A kiss?” he offered.

    Penelope nearly dropped her cue stick. If it were possible, her skin would catch aflame.

    Colin rounded the billiards table, strolling as if he were wandering the paths of Hyde Park. “Or perhaps a piece of clothing?”

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