The Strange Marriage of Anne de Bourgh by Skylar Hamilton Burris

Author:Skylar Hamilton Burris [Burris, Skylar Hamilton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781492957348
Published: 2013-12-24T05:00:00+00:00

THE END

Let Not the Sun Go Down

Three months after the Darcys’ wedding…

Elizabeth Darcy ran her fingertips along the top of the mahogany wood. “Must you leave today?” she asked, her hand gliding from the desktop to her husband’s shoulder, and then trailing to the back of his neck, where she toyed with his dark curls.

He closed his eyes and sighed. “I am afraid, so my love.” He reached behind himself to clasp the hand that was caressing him and brought it to his lips. Opening his eyes, he rose from his wine red chair. He closed a drawer, locked it, and deposited the key in his pocket. Behind him loomed the new bookcases he had insisted on having installed all around his study as an annex to the now full Pemberley library. “These matters cannot wait.”

"When will you be returning?"

"As soon as my business is concluded. I will be gone no more than two weeks, I assure you."

"I will miss you," she said, unhappily anticipating the lonely days ahead. Georgiana would be a pleasant enough companion, but Elizabeth would still yearn for the meeting of minds that characterized her marriage to Mr. Darcy.

"And I you," he replied, leaning to kiss her. When she responded eagerly to the pressure of his lips, he drew back. "Elizabeth, I am already late, and I shall by no means find my way out of this house if you return my kiss like that."

"Oh, I am so very sorry, Mr. Darcy," she answered with feigned contrition. "Please, do kiss me farewell again, and I promise to respond as coldly as possible."

He laughed. "No, dear. I do not think you could ever be capable of frigidity, even if you were to try very hard. Therefore I will not risk another kiss." He bowed and walked away, but she followed him to the door of the study, and so he allowed himself to touch her lips with his own one last time before hurrying to his awaiting carriage.

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