A Fine Mind: A Pride and Prejudice Novella (Sweet Sentiments Book 3) by Alix James & Nicole Clarkston

Author:Alix James & Nicole Clarkston [James, Alix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nicole Clarkston
Published: 2021-01-27T20:00:00+00:00

11

If the morning had been everything promising and heavenly, the afternoon was his purgatory.

Georgiana was upstairs sobbing. Mrs. Reynolds had done what she could, but the simple fact was that his sister was exhausted. She had spent all her energy and emotional strength trying to make a friend, and there was nothing left to face the rest of the day. He had seen this before, but it still killed him every time he watched her invest all of herself into something because usually, it came to naught.

But, maybe this time would be different.

She had loved her visitors. Loved a chance to be appreciated for her passion, having someone listen with steady interest and open ears when she spoke. Loved Elizabeth, for some odd reason.

Not that Elizabeth was difficult to love. He, of all people, could understand how Elizabeth could bewitch and allure! But that Georgiana had seen it as well—that she had found something peaceful and harmonious in Elizabeth Bennet’s being at that very first glance, something that drew her and fixed her—that was even more confirmation that Darcy had been right all along about the woman he loved. And it increased his sense of failure that she was not his.

Not yet, he consoled himself. Their walk had taught him to hope again.

He leaned over his desk and kneaded his brow, trying to put down the head-ache that lurked behind his eyes. Thinking of her helped, until he recollected the way he had let her go. No promise of a reunion, no private word to her uncle about their further plans in the area, not even a dropped hint that he might call on her at the inn. Nothing, because he had been too broken about what this blasted letter might contain even to act the pleasant host for her last half-hour in his home.

And, as it turned out, the letter had been worth all his brooding and dread, and then some.

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