Mr. Darcy's Promise by Ellsworth Jeanna

Author:Ellsworth, Jeanna [Ellsworth, Jeanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hey Lady Publications
Published: 2013-07-15T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

M

r. Darcy watched Elizabeth saunter out of the library with a flirtatious skip in her step. He let out the biggest sigh. Good Lord! How will I ever be able to sleep after a moment like that! His body felt more alive than it had in some time, every bit of him tingling with sensation. Each embrace and each kiss replayed themselves over and over again in his mind. He almost stepped up, wanting to follow her to her room, but forced himself to remain in the doorway before he turned back. Perhaps everything he longed for would come true.

He glanced back towards the door, his fingers tapping impatiently against his thigh. A distraction, that was precisely what he needed. Anything would do. He picked up the book nearest him, hardly caring whether it was a pamphlet on farming or an old encyclopedia. After opening it to a page in the middle, he realized it was Elizabeth’s book, Sense and Sensibility. Perhaps not a romance novel, he reflected ruefully, as it was hardly something that would help distract him.

Perhaps ADictionary of the English Language,he thought, searching for Samuel Johnson, or even a treatise on biological sciences that he had studied at Cambridge. That was guaranteed to put him to sleep! He tossed Elizabeth’s book back into its place, but it bounced off the edge of the table and fell open upon the floor. A letter had fallen out of the book and he reached over to replace it between the pages. He assumed that it was either from Jane or her father, but the familiar dark, slanted handwriting made him pause. Something else caught his eye after a moment. A name, a name he hadn’t thought of for some time . . . Wickham!

Without thinking of the intrusion, he unfolding the letter and stood, walking to the candle for better light. What was a letter from Wickham doing in Elizabeth’s book? Had they been corresponding? For how long? A wave of nausea came over him, but his hands moved steadily, opening the letter fully before his eyes fixed on the words. He should not be reading this letter, he knew, but he could no sooner stop than he could dismiss any mention of Wickham.

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