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  1. Public Bookmark 62

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    Their bedchamber is bathed in a soft, glowing warmth from the fading sunlight outside and the lit fireplace, painting the walls a glimmering orange. Penelope - beautiful, wonderful Penelope, his bride, his wife - is stood in the center, in front of the mirror that the servants must have brought in, hands twisted behind herself to reach for her dress, hair tucked over one shoulder and face streaked with tears. She meets his gaze through the mirror, finds him where he’s frozen in place. Her veil has been discarded on their bed.

    “I cannot unlace myself,” she croaks, and Colin is sure that his traitorous little heart has broken free of his ribcage entirely and is now dragging itself, bedraggled and bruised as it is, across the carpeted floor to try and get to her.

    (or, their wedding night.)

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    14 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 44

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    Penelope turns her face towards Colin and finds herself unable to contain her smile - he’s watching Benedict weave through the crowd with his mouth twisted into a little grimace. “Are you really jealous?” She asks, lightly teasing. “Of your own brother?”

    “I am not jealous,” he replies huffily, though his hand on the small of her back does press just that little bit firmer, and she sways into his side. “I am simply saying that he is too familiar with my wife.”

    A feeling of such great adoration takes over her that, for a moment, she is struck dumb. What a thing, to have gone into this night scared and heartbroken and so sure that it would end in her being cast out by the Queen and the ton and her husband, and instead to end it with Benedict’s gentle teasing and her mother’s soft words and her husband, the man she has loved since she knew what it was to love at all, grumbling in displeasure at his own brother acting familial with his new sister.

    (after the Butterfly Ball)

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    14 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    When Penelope finds out her husband is cheating on her, she wants to leave the marriage. Unfortunately for her husband the timing could not be worse. They come up with a compromise.

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    11 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    Today was supposed to be the best day of her life...

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    10 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 49

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    After a vivid nightmare, Penelope and Colin discuss what could have been.

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    08 Feb 2026