To Restore a Name// Anthony Bridgerton x Reader

Lady Y/N Ashbourne was never meant to return to London. Not after her family's disgrace, not after the duel that nearly destroyed her brother, and certainly not after ten years of silence from the very people who once called her their own. But when the Season begins and the pressure to reclaim her name becomes too great to ignore, she enters the ballroom with her chin high, her gloves spotless, and her secrets buried deep.
She expects whispers. She expects rejection.
She does not expect the Viscount.

Anthony Bridgerton has no time for sentiment, and even less for scandal-but when he sees Y/ N again, no longer the stubborn girl chasing her brother through the gardens of Aubrey Hall, but a composed and wounded woman standing alone, he makes a decision that surprises everyone, himself most of all.

A marriage of convenience, inked in silence and necessity.

But beneath the terms of the contract lie a decade of unspoken words, old regrets, and something else neither of them dares to name.

Because love was never part of the arrangement.

Until, somehow, it was.