Haunting Mr. Darcy by Mackrory KaraLynne

Author:Mackrory, KaraLynne [Mackrory, KaraLynne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Meryton Press
Published: 2014-03-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth,” Darcy breathed, amazed at what he had just heard her say. His eyes roamed her features again to look for confirmation there of the declaration. It felt as if he were dreaming to hear such words.

“When?” he asked in a state of happy incredulousness.

Blushing, she said, “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation, though not too long ago; I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“Can it be true?” Darcy brushed the back of his hand down her cheek, trying to imagine the softness he could not feel, but knew existed.

“It is true, whatever that letter says.”

Both looked down at the letter in his hands, fearful once again of its power over their futures. Darcy slowly lifted it again and with a silent agreement from Elizabeth, opened it.

After watching Darcy read for many minutes, and seeing his brows pulled together in what looked to Elizabeth to be confusion, she spoke. “What has Mr. Bingley to say?”

Darcy shook his head in a jerking motion, frustration affecting his voice as he groaned. “Never in my life have I wished more that Bingley would learn to write properly. He leaves out half his words and blots the rest! And now when I must know what he writes, I cannot make anything out of it.”

The strain of the moment caused Elizabeth to laugh eerily as she reached a hand out for the letter. “Allow me, if you please.”

As Elizabeth touched the edge of the parchment, thus releasing its contents to her awareness; the essential communication of the letter also became clear to Darcy. Both stilled as the intelligence dawned on them and flooded their thoughts. Meeting each other’s eyes, they held perfectly still for some time in contemplation of the letter.

“You really are Elizabeth — ”

“I am not dead — ”

Speaking at once together, they both looked at the news of Elizabeth’s accident in different manners. To say that Darcy was relieved to know that his Elizabeth had not died in a carriage accident, though lying insensible in a coma, would have been a colossal understatement. Still his concern was great to learn of her accident and injury. If strictly examined, he would have to say relief was most prominent, considering how he had agonized that she had died when first hearing her memories.

However calmed he was by that news, he could not be insensible to the undeniable proof that this visage, this wonderment before him that he had thought was only a figment of his imagination was in truth Miss Elizabeth Bennet, the lady to whom he had lost his heart and mind. Until even then, despite her returned memory in the study, he had held some belief there was some other explanation that allowed her not to be the real Elizabeth, thus making it permissible for him to justify any manner of impropriety in his actions. The implications of her actual presence

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