she would brush by them all and flee down the street, she looked straight at Colin and said, “I never asked you to marry me.” Colin’s cheeks turned a deeper red than Benedict would have thought humanly possible. Colin opened his mouth, but no sound came out. It was the first—and quite possibly would be the only—moment of Benedict’s recollection for which his younger brother was at a complete loss for words. “And I never—” Penelope added, swallowing convulsively when the words came out a bit tortured and broken. “I never said to anyone that I wanted you to ask me.” “Penelope,” Colin finally
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