1932: Pride and Prejudice Revisted by Karen M. Cox

Author:Karen M. Cox [Cox, Karen M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alternate Universe - 20th Century, Alternate Universe - Farm/Ranch, Fractured marriage, Naughty Bits (aka PWP), Not in Amazon Library, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
ISBN: 9780999100080
Amazon: B082C4FQXZ
Barnesnoble: B082C4FQXZ
Goodreads: 49117105
Publisher: Adalia Street Press
Published: 2020-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

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William paced the floor while he waited for Elizabeth to come to bed. He took his pajama shirt off, put it back on, took it off again. Glanced at his reflection in the mirror with a critical eye. There were some benefits from farm work, even if it required he bathe before supper on those days he labored outside.

Yes, he decided—definitely shirt off. Elizabeth was no longer a blushing bride.

He was reading in bed when the door opened some minutes later. Her nightgown was a light lemon-colored cotton, trimmed in lace, covered by a white robe. Her hair fell in loose, damp ringlets.

She glanced over at him as she rubbed the locks of hair between her towel-covered hands. “What are you reading?”

“This? It’s nothing, really. Farmer’s Almanac.”

She hung the towel on the radiator and slipped between the sheets, turning the key on her bedside lamp. “Do you always read before bed?”

“Not always. When the girls were here, I—”

“Read to them at bedtime. I remember. You miss that time with them, don’t you?”

“I haven’t really thought about it. I guess I do.”

“I could read to you.”

“You? Read to me?”

“It might be a new twist on your tradition of reading to the girls.”

“You mean novels?”

“I don’t just read books of interest to four-year-olds. I take pleasure in learning about a lot of things. Even”—she picked up the book on his lap—“the Farmer’s Almanac.”

“What do you like best?”

“Adventure stories. Classics.”

“Dime store Westerns?”

“Um…”

He laughed. “I couldn’t get enough of them when I was a boy.”

Elizabeth’s features broke into a relieved smile. “You’re teasing me. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell.” She poked him in the arm.

“I imagine it is.” He caught her hand and brought it to his lips. “It is easy to tell when you are teasing me.”

“How so?”

“Your eyes dance like candle flames.” He brushed a finger over her brow. “Sometimes you lift that one eyebrow as if to dare me to disapprove of you.”

“Despise me if you dare.”

“Indeed, Mrs. Darcy, I do not dare. Especially when the corners of your lips turn up into that saucy smile you are wearing now.”

Before she could respond, his mouth covered hers. He couldn’t think straight when she was so near. Her hands smoothed over his shoulders and down his back, and suddenly, all he could think was to get that lemon-colored annoyance off that delectable, milky white skin.

“William,” she gasped, “what are you doing?”

“Taking off that infernal nightgown,” he growled. It stuck underneath her bottom, and he nearly tore it pulling it up and over her head.

“Don’t rip it! It’s my favorite!”

He was out of control, he knew it, but he also knew he was in no mood to stop—mutual lovemaking be damned.

“The lights are on.” There was a hint of shock in her voice.

“Damn it!” He reached over and turned out her bedside lamp and then turned to extinguish his own.

When he turned back to her, she was lying on her back, as if waiting. He covered her with his body, nudging her thighs apart, and slid home.

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