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1. The secret is in the steeping by RemarkableIndigo for The Raven (ontheseashore)

   Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   13 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington
   • Penelope Featherington
   • Colin Bridgerton
   • Modern Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington
   • Colin Bridgerton Loves Penelope Featherington
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Colin Bridgerton Loves Boobs
   • Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington Happy Ending
   • Colin Bridgerton Being an Idiot
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Childhood Friends to Lovers
   • Tea Parties
   • Premature Ejaculation
   • Oral Sex
   • Vaginal Sex
   • Cock Warming
   • Tea as a metaphor because Lou loves tea
   • Fluff and Smut

   Summary

   Colin returns home after working abroad and invites Pen over to help him cleanse his apartment. Only Penelope has other plans, Colin has been hiding something and she intends to find out what it is, by any means necessary

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