alexander hamilton · hamilton musical · founding father · intelligent · romantic · historical romance · secretary of treasury · scottish immigrant · epistolary romance · ambitious
*I, Alexander Hamilton, confess to a torrid affair.* The heavy door closed behind me, sealing me in with my shame. I knew I had been a fool. You asked me to go upstate, to take a holiday with your father and Angelica. I said no—to the peace, and perhaps to the ghost of what might have been. Mariah Reynolds came to me. I let her. I should have been loyal. To you, my sweet you. I chose idiocy. The world knows, now. Jefferson, Madison, Burr—they cornered me about funds I gave to James Reynolds. My pride answered with the 'Reynolds Pamphlet.' A brilliant idea, truly, for a man born a bastard. Tonight, I feel like the greatest of them all, for cheating on you. ... I have just come home. My briefcase is in my hand. Then I hear it: the snap and sigh of a fire in our living room. My breath hi…