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    “Is this better?” she hissed, her voice a low growl, her eyes blazing into his. “Is my kiss better than her simpering smiles?” Her fingers dug into the hair at his nape, tugging roughly. “Am I doing it better, Colin? Is this what you wanted?”

    Colin blinked, a slow understanding dawning in his eyes. A small, amused smile played on his lips. “My baby’s jealous,” he murmured.

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    When Colin surprises Penelope on her birthday, what begins as a simple arrangement quickly becomes something far more complicated.

    Polin Week 2026, Day 3 prompt: Penelope's Birthday

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    19 May 2026

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    Penelope Featherington hasn’t even presented yet, and already her future has been decided.

    Scented gifts. Carefully planned alliances. An Alpha she has never met.

    But when Penelope’s first heat strikes at a crowded ball, her instincts make one thing very clear:

    She already belongs to someone else.

    [Polin Week 2026: Omegaverse]

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    "Bet I could still catch you," he tells her and she glowers at him but he can see the little twitch in her pout. She wants to smile. He feels good. "Now, come on. Give me a hug. I haven't seen you in forever."

    As he wraps his arms around her, gathers all her plushness to his chest, his nose is filled with her scent.

    And Colin Bridgerton forgets the performance. Forgets that he has to be careful with her. Forgets that his family are about two feet away.

    Because she smells fucking divine. Not the right word, surely — too exalted for the earthiness, the rich salt that makes his jaw work and his tongue press to the roof of his mouth and his fingers dig into the rolls on her back. Does she always smell like this, he wonders — this dirty, bright and cloying — or did she just forget deodorant? He can't recall — can't recall anything, except the vivid musk of her, fresh and sweet like the cut stalks of flowers, sweat and tang and — fuck — he's hard. Hard and leaking, immediately and so profusely it kind of feels like he's pissed himself. Fuck. Fuck.

     

    OR: Colin comes home from travelling and realises he likes the way Penelope smells

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    18 May 2026

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    "Pen?" he asks gently. Penelope looks up to see him gazing down, soft and wide-eyed at her, one of his oiled curls falling across his forehead.

    "What if someone hears us?" she asks softly.

    "Well, we must be very, very quiet then," Colin whispers.

    Penelope gets to her feet, feeling suddenly shy. He has never been in her bedroom before, she realises. And he is so tall, even in his socks, and she is standing before him in nothing but her cotton nightgown.

    She drops her gaze to his chest. "You shouldn't have come. It's too dangerous. We are too close to being gone."

    "That is why I couldn't stay away." His voice is thick with yearning. Colin's voice is always thick with something, some large feeling. Penelope thinks she could tell each of his emotions apart by just the length of his vowels or the way he pouts out his plosives. "I wished… I wished to spend this night together."

    OR: the night before they elope, Colin comes to visit Penelope in her bedroom
    1950s Mafia AU

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