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strawberry chapstick & thank you kisses by audbooh, audlovespolin, Ayoisha, BiscuitFiend, FanOfFics, fullysplendid, Kaitlin_With_a_K, kybridge26, MistressofNone3645, Musings_at_random, preferringsleep (mellarkey), queenannieslace, SamHandwich, WrensSymphony
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
01 Jun 2026
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Colin’s plans for an activity-filled Bridgerton family holiday go awry when his best friend Penelope kisses him on the cheek and accidentally begins a game neither of them want to end.
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- Part 4 of Pass the baton
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13 Jun 2026
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It's maybe not something he should be doing for his friend. It is maybe too much, not normal, but Colin likes how it makes him feel. For two months a year he gets to be a man who has a girl to buy flowers for. Sometimes when the florist says for your girlfriend? he will say yeah, and when they say lucky girl he will say yeah, yeah she is or I'm the lucky one and for a few moments he is another person entirely, a man with a purpose and a life and a warm flat with a pretty girl in it, waiting upside down on the sofa for her peonies with her hair trailing.
Better than the reality, that he is a thirty-two year old loser with no job (which is why he can afford to be loping around the city all day looking for flowers). No job no girlfriend no point.
It is the happiest he is all year.
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colin has a realisation during peony season
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11 Jun 2026
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Close Your Eyes and I'll Close Mine by kybridge26, WrensSymphony
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
15 Jul 2025
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For a month, the only thing Penelope managed to tell him was goodnight. For a month, she pretended like that was enough. That is, until Colin showed up at his brother's engagement party unexpectedly.
She knew he wanted answers. She knew he deserved them.
Would she finally be brave enough to give them to him?
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07 Jun 2026
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At the end of the day, it's just biology.
Penelope tells herself this endlessly. She also tells herself that Colin Bridgerton has looked right through her for ten years, that asking him to help her through her heat is purely transactional, and that she is definitely, definitely not still in love with him.
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03 Jun 2026
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Penelope Featherington never wanted any part of the criminal underworld — she’s a quiet book editor who’d rather lose herself in romance novels than deal with her family’s shady “import business.” But when her father’s gambling debts threaten to destroy everything, the only way out is an arranged marriage to Colin Bridgerton. Third son of the billionaire Bridgerton family that secretly runs New York’s underground empire. Colin has been photographed with every model in Manhattan, but the moment he meets the fiery, thique, freckled Penelope, he’s done playing. She hates him on sight. He’s already in love.
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31 May 2026