Match Made in the Stars: A Modern Elizabeth and Darcy Romance (True Love Through Time Book 1) by Jemma Thorne

Author:Jemma Thorne [Thorne, Jemma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Not in Amazon Library, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
Goodreads: 26842873
Published: 2015-09-29T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Darcy set down his phone and stared at it.

Lizzy Bennet.

He walked directly to his closet and peered inside. He knew there were suits in there—he had his laundry done once a week and everything was pressed and waiting.

Why he’d felt the urge to check that three days before the date was beyond him.

His phone rang again. He glanced at the screen and then ignored it. Charlie would want to know if Lizzy had called and Darcy didn’t want to talk about it.

Sure enough, it lit up with a text a few seconds after the ringing stopped. He didn’t bother to read it. Charlie could wait to hear that Lizzy had called and asked him out.

She had called him and asked him out.

Was he that easy to read? Her tone had said that she knew he wasn’t going to call her.

He’d wanted to.

Oh, god, how he’d wanted to.

He could still see the vision of how she looked wearing his suit jacket, dwarfed by its size, her curves cradled snugly in something of his. Her red skirt peeking out seductively.

He had loved that.

He went home that night and thought of nothing but Lizzy. He tossed and turned, and fumed, and planned. But in the morning he did not take action, as she had.

He pushed thoughts of Lizzy and love to the back of his mind and got back to work. Back to the endless rounds of revision to his product, to the grind of sourcing and funding. He went where he was comfortable.

He should have called her. And he would have to make it up to her.

Beautiful and brave. Lizzy was an enticing woman.

Darcy had energy to burn after her call. He glanced at the phone, wishing to hear her voice again.

Shaking his head at the strange turn his day and his emotions had taken, Darcy changed clothes and grabbed his racket. If he couldn’t focus on work, then the club and a tennis game might serve to burn off the buzz of energy and some hours between him and his date with Lizzy.

She had called him.

The thought made him smile.

Saturday night, Darcy pulled up outside the address Lizzy had provided. It was a three-story red stucco building that may have been a hotel at one point. He parked behind a cab and before he could get out of the car he saw Lizzy come down the steps with Jane.

Lizzy had her hair swept back, tied into an intricate knot at the nape of her neck. Her eyes sparkled as she laughed at something her sister said, her grin lighting up the whole day. She wore a black strapless dress with a skirt that flared at the knee and a drooping necklace of big black beads.

Jane looked movie star fabulous. Her hair was encouraged into a curled, pinned up style reminiscent of the 1920s and she wore a pink off-the-shoulder dress in a soft but shimmery shade of pink that drew the eye to her...attributes that he should avoid looking at.

Darcy exited his car and stepped onto the curb straightening his jacket.

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