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    Colin Bridgerton returns to London only to discover that Penelope Featherington is on the brink of death from Hanahaki disease. Desperate not to lose her, he confronts his own feelings and fights for a love that almost slipped through his fingers.

    English isn't my first language.

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    10 Feb 2025

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    He opens his eyes and he blinks - once, twice, three times.

    Perhaps, he decides, this is a dream, a byproduct of his subconsciousness, of intrusive, worrying thoughts, of swirling memories of the one person whose been stuck in his head for the past fortnight (or okay, even longer than that) because lying next to him in bed, blue eyes bright, inviting smile on her face is Penelope.

    Plot twist: it's definitely not a dream.

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    04 Nov 2024

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    “Is it true?”

    She had the grace to get it over with quickly.

    "They are to be married in three weeks time.”

    Hearing the words, it felt like giving up. It felt like the moment the world grew cold and still around him, his body sinking to a place where the midday sun could not reach. His mother tried to reach for him, as he stood hastily from his chair.

    "Dear–”

    His bedroom door was soon slammed behind him, the key turned firmly in the lock. Colin let the bed take the weight of his bones, wishing that it could take the weight of his broken heart. He laid there in pieces for the entire night. As his cheeks grew damp with tears, he thought of the life that he gambled away and the future he had lost because he waited too long.
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    On a dark night, without Colin Bridgerton there to stop it, Lord Debling proposes to Penelope Featherington and she reluctantly accepts. But several after long nights of nursing a broken heart, Colin learns of a very important piece of information on the evening of their betrothal party and he suddenly finds himself unable to let her go.

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    04 Nov 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 48

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    Colin is privy to the first drafts of the letters Pen wrote to his mother. He doesn't handle it well. Then again, maybe he does.

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    23 Oct 2024

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    “I am going to make this right, Pen, because I was made to be your husband… and I cannot live in a world where I am not.”

    On the night of his wedding, a despondent Colin Bridgerton makes a reckless wish.

    Now he is stuck in a race against time, floundering in a world he does not recognise, determined to get back to the life and love he has lost.

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    21 Oct 2024