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    It slowly sinks in that he pictured his best friend while he was jerking off. God. He must be absolutely, unequivocally mental.

    He hears her soft laughter again in his head and his chest aches. It is as though she is pressing on the bruise with her small fingers.

    Yes, very, very much mental indeed, he decides.

    Or the one where Penelope stops speaking to Colin and he, well, he has sex dreams about her.

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    Colin returns from a trip abroad and immediately loses all control. But consequences have a way of rippling out and the more he tries to hide the infraction, well, some truths insist on being known.

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    "It makes perfect sense!" Penelope's eyes are bright with wine and conviction. "Think about it. We know each other. We trust each other. We both agree that virginity is some arbitrary social construct, so why are we letting it bother us? Let's just—" She makes a decisive cutting motion with her hand. "—get it over with."

    "Pen—"

    "Colin," she sighs dramatically. "We could die tomorrow. As virgins."

    "We are not going to die tomorrow."

    "We could. And it will kill us."

    "Well, we’d already be dead, so—"

    “We could die. Tomorrow. As virgins. I don’t know if there is a fate worse than that, Colin!”

    The one where a question, posed under the weight of alcohol, leads to more than either bargained for.

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    She just glanced around the kitchen, taking things in, her expression blank, then leaned against the counter next to the kettle, picking at the chipped black nail polish on her fingers.

    “Alright?” Colin offered, around a bite from the corner of his toast.

    She met his gaze, making his stomach twist and the hair on the back of his neck stand up. Her eyes were icy blue, and they seared right through him. With the barest nod, she looked back down at her hands, as though Colin were no more noteworthy than the kettle beside her.

    “Colin — Penelope,” Eloise introduced, grabbing some water from the fridge. Penelope’s eyes flicked up from her fingers again, but to Eloise this time, that was the only indication he got that she heard.

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    Colin Bridgerton is the product of a life where love is given freely, and the light is never dimmed. Penelope Featherington is the product of a life full of the dark and tainted.

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    Penelope Featherington would do anything to protect Colin Bridgerton from a bad match—even to herself. When her mother schemes, she runs. When she runs, he follows. And when it’s all over, wedding bells ring. But that’s only half the story.

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