howeverlongs:“You’re not ugly,“ he told her, his voice low and urgent.Her eyes widened.And he whispe
howeverlongs:“You’re not ugly,“ he told her, his voice low and urgent.Her eyes widened.And he whispered, “You’re beautiful.”“No,” she said, the word barely more than a breath. “Don’t say things you don’t mean.”His fingers dug into her shoulders. “You’re beautiful,” he repeated. “I don’t know how … I don’t know when …” He touched her lips, feeling her hot breath on his fingertips. “But you are,” he whispered.He leaned forward and kissed her, slowly, reverently, no longer quite so surprised that this was happening, that he wanted her so badly. The shock was gone, replaced by a simple, primitive need to claim her, to brand her, to mark her as his.” Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton as Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton in Bridgerton (2000-) -- source link
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