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  1. Public Bookmark 77

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    “Good evening darling,” she said. “Did you have a good time?”
    He mumbled something she could not quite hear, shedding his outer layers of clothes as he closed the door behind him. She was enjoying watching him, sitting up straighter on the settee so she could see him better, when he strode across the room toward her, intentional and calculated.
    He stopped right in front of her, his hips at her eye level, cupping her chin in his big, warm hand. She looked up at him and his eyes were dark, hungry. He was looking at her mouth.
    “Colin?”

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    Colin and Penelope have an intense connection, but the real love comes through in the gentler moments later.

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    29 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 63

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    I hope you will excuse the impropriety of this letter as I was concerned for your wellbeing once I heard and simply wanted to forward my wishes for your recovery.

    Yours Truly,
    Penelope Featherington

    Before she could think better of it, she had already folded and placed the letter on a tray on her desk, darting out of the room as though it was about to break out in a fire.

    She pointedly ignored the letter as she returned to bed later that night, and when she saw the letter missing from the tray the next morning, she knew there was no going back now.

    ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

    In the 1821 off-season, Penelope Featherington is dismayed to learn Colin has fallen ill on his travels. After wrestling with herself, she decides to send him a letter to wish him a speedy recovery. As a friend, of course.
    Colin Bridgerton is intrigued when he sees a different set of handwriting amongst the usual letters from his family. Curious, and bored out of his mind, he writes back.
    Neither of them expected what this newfound correspondence would come to mean to them.

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    24 Jul 2026

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    An alternate take on Season 3 beginning in Episode 5. After Eloise reacts badly to news of her engagement to Colin, Penelope takes her former friend's words to heart and chooses to tell Colin about Whistledown before she publishes any news of their engagement.

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    13 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 26

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    성적인 비밀을 교환하던 콜린과 페넬로페. 그리고 터널밑에서... 쟤네 뭐하니!
    Colin and Penelope are exchanging sexual secrets. And under the tunnel... What are they do?!!

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    28 Jun 2026

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    Penelope is just a bit ill and quite certain it is only her courses.

    Philippa insists she go for a walk,
    Albion offers to call a doctor,
    Harry suggests they may need a vicar,
    and Prudence forbids her from dying altogether.

    Penelope has had quite enough of the lot of them, but her mother’s diagnosis is, by far, the most ridiculous notion of all.

     

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    Cryptic Pregnancy 2: Regency Boogaloo

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    03 May 2026