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Beyond The Marigold Sea by smj
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 May 2025
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Summary
She stands before him, a delicate goddess with her cheeks tinted pink and cherry lips parted. Her eyes – those beautiful, arresting eyes of hers – never once leave his, as though she searches for a reassurance that he cannot give to her.
Archibald Featherington gives her hand to him, and the Featheringtons' reckoning is now inevitable. Colin will not yield until he delivers Archibald's punishment to his waiting family who have been starved of the justice they rightly owed.
But resting against his palm, Penelope's hand trembles, severing any and all thought of revenge.
You did that, he thinks.
Unwittingly, his fingers clasp over hers. She stares at him, incredulity pushing her brows together; he cannot fathom how much of the girl he remembers still lives on in the cherubic set to her features.
She is, to him, a mirage of the boy who had his head lost in the clouds.
"You will not change, Colin. You have always been you. As long as you know who you are, you know who you will be."
"Shall we begin?" The pastor interrupts.