Pride, Prejudice and the Perfect Match by Marilyn Brant

Author:Marilyn Brant [Brant, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Amazon: B00AYLN5TI
Barnesnoble: B00AYLN5TI
Goodreads: 17213638
Publisher: White Soup Press
Published: 2013-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

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Beth stared at the door. It still vibrated from Will’s slamming of it. Not that he hadn’t had a reason to be angry. In fact, under the circumstances, he’d behaved himself rather well. Except for the bet he’d flung in her face.

Oh, that hurt…but only because it had the ring of truth to it. She remembered with 20/20 hindsight all the information he’d told her about the clinic. The money they still needed. The ideas he’d had for it. The way he’d tried to gauge her interest and potential involvement. The passion that had shown on his face when he spoke of his project. It was as though Will was in the midst of a love affair, all right, but it was between him and his clinic, not between the two of them.

This explained his curiosity about her in a way that even her fictitious Love Match profile did not. Of course he’d need some pressing reason to pretend to be attracted to someone like her. Will Darcy would never have sought her out after that first coffee date without an ulterior motive, even if she’d actually been Charlotte Lucas. After all, most details about herself she hadn’t been able to change.

She still had her average, twenty-six-year-old face.

She still dressed too humbly for someone with his sense of sophistication and style.

She still spoke with the same soft voice, which probably bored him without her realizing it.

“Charlotte” might have had more polish in her career and her lifestyle, but there’d been too much Beth Bennet in her from the beginning. It was all so clear now how foolishly she’d behaved. Will must have seen her as tiresome from the start, even before he found out about her real life.

The tears she’d held back while he was in her apartment began to fall in splashes on her shirt. She brushed some away with her sleeve, but soon that got too soaked to do much good. She grabbed a wad of tissues along with the research paper she’d written for her sociology class. It was due tomorrow afternoon.

She read over the monstrosity. The thing was dull and evasive by turns. She knew she could do better on it. After her talk with Will today, only about half the paper still felt legitimate anyway. She marked up the first five pages with corrections and more emotionally valid observations. Then she ripped the last five pages to shreds, the way she’d wanted to do this morning, and began rewriting.

Regardless of the grade Professor O’Reilly would give her, this time she was going to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. No matter what the consequences.

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