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There is something strange about Michaela Stirling.
Francesca cannot quite put her finger on what it is, but it has become clear after three weeks on the road to Scotland that she simply cannot be near her.
And Michaela - well, she is worried that Francesca Stirling née Bridgerton is a little plain. And one will eventually start to feel guilty teasing a plain person.
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26 Jun 2026
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The balcony is empty. The air is thick with summer heat.
Michaela steps closer than she should. Francesca's legs part, almost reflexively, for her husband’s cousin. Michaela slips between them and rests her hands on Francesca's thighs.
She leans in. Francesca can smell the limoncello on her breath. Her nose brushes Francesca's cheek.
"Tell me it's killing you like it's killing me," Michaela whispers against her skin.
Francesca trembles. Her need pulses in her chest, her stomach, lower still.
"Please, Fran."
"We can't."
"I know. I know."
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Francesca Stirling is a high-powered Manhattan attorney on her eighth round of IVF. Her husband's cousin, Michaela, arrives for the summer and immediately upends Francesca's routines. When her husband leaves for a work trip to London, Francesca is forced to reckon with the woman she has spent years refusing to look at — and with the question of whether she can finally become herself without breaking the man who loves her.
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08 Jun 2026
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When Loving Her Was Wicked by kinverses
Fandoms: Franchaela - Fandom, francesca bridgerton - Fandom, michaela stirling - Fandom, Bridgerton - Fandom
25 Apr 2026
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How could something feel so natural and so unforgivable at once?
That was the thing Francesca could not reconcile. Not the wickedness of it, which society would have named readily enough if society had known. Not even the betrayal, though that cut its own deep wound. But the ease of it. The instinct. The terrible, unsought understanding of how one woman could want another and be answered without translation. She had thought, once, that desire had a shape. A prescribed form. A body it belonged to.
Michaela Stirling had shown her, in a single evening, how wrong she had been.
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Inspired by When He Was Wicked, this version rewrites the original story through Michaela Stirling, transforming it into a romance shaped by secrecy, grief, friendship, and a love even harder won.
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08 Apr 2026