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An Instruction in Pleasure by wildechilde17
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
01 Aug 2025
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Summary
In a Regency society where debutantes must be Demonstrated, publicly, intimately, and under the eyes of the ton, a young woman’s future is stripped bare alongside her dignity.
Daphne Bridgerton was born for this stage. Polished, perfect, diamond of the first water. Groomed to gleam beneath chandeliers and scrutiny alike. But to save her sisters, to save her name, to save herself, she must lie back on the oil-lit table and let the world see. What she doesn’t know is herself. What she doesn’t understand, not yet, is what exactly she is about to give them.
Simon Basset has lived a life built on control. To choke his stutter into silence. To choke his father’s legacy until it rotted. To choke every wanting, human part of himself until nothing remained but steel. And now, in front of the most powerful men in England, he will ruin all of it.
Because this Demonstration will not be for them. It will not be about proving Daphne’s worth as a wife, a broodmare, a Bridgerton jewel to be placed in the Hastings crown. His father’s crown.
Simon will not show them how to take her. He will show her how to take herself.
Series
- Part 4 of The Exhibition Papers