Benedict Bridgerton

“This room is exceptionally well lit.” Benedict had been out of it for practically the entirety of dinner, scanning the candlelit room with his eyes.

You had been invited so graciously by the Bridgertons over for dinner, your mother being close friends with Violet Bridgerton. Your family was respectable and prolif.

And that is all very well. Only you disliked the second eldest brother, Benedict Bridgerton. You saw him as overly carefree and an artistic fool.