Completely and Utterly Mr. Darcy's: a Pride and Prejudice variation by Valerie Lennox

Author:Valerie Lennox [Lennox, Valerie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Punk Rawk Books
Published: 2022-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

DARCY FOUND HIS wife in a tizzy later over what she was going to wear to the opera, and he realized he had been remiss in a number of ways. He resolved to rectify it immediately. His wife would need her own allowance and she would need new dresses. The dresses Elizabeth had were perfectly suitable but they were not the sorts of dresses his wife should be wearing.

She was right to be concerned, and he also knew there was no time for a dress to be made by that evening.

He told her to see if any of Georgiana’s things might do, though he knew his sister and his wife were not exactly the same size, and she ended up in an altered gown that was the fashion these days—very light, practically sheer fabric in a color close to white but that might have been considered vaguely lavender. The bodice had been altered, but it was still too tight, and his wife’s bosom was…

The dress was distracting.

He had seen a number of cartoons in various rags poking fun at the fashions of women, claiming they were indecent and did not cover nearly well enough, and he’d pushed this aside as the weaknesses of men who were too easily drawn to prurient thoughts, but his wife in that dress drove him out towards the brink of madness.

And he couldn’t ask her to change, not after all that.

She was wrapped in a coat on their way there, because of the cold, but then they were in his box together, staring down at the stage—well, he should have been looking at the stage and not at the swells of her breasts, but he was not doing what he should, not at all.

For his wife’s part, she was oblivious, looking everywhere but at him, out at the architecture of the theater in awe, at the gathered crowd, which was not so crowded as it might have been, since this was not a busy time of year in London, and seemingly concentrating only on not being overwhelmed by it all.

Had she ever been to the opera? He wondered. She supposedly had some family in trade here in London, but even if they came, they would not have had a box they kept and they would not have watched the show in relative comfort.

He could have asked, but he was agitated and aroused, and he didn’t think he could keep up a conversation.

When the lights went down, he scooted his chair closer to hers.

He tried to concentrate on the show, but he couldn’t.

He just moved closer still.

He told himself that if he wanted to prove to her that he was the sort of man who did not have mistresses littered all around the country, he must behave with some measure of decorum in a public place.

He put his arm around her.

She didn’t protest. She leaned into him and her breath hitched.

He spread his fingers out over her shoulder and her collarbone, and then slid them slowly

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.