Pemberley: Mr. Darcy's Dragon: A Pride and Prejudice Variation (Jane Austen's Dragons Book 1) by Maria Grace

Author:Maria Grace [Grace, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Soup Press
Published: 2016-10-30T23:00:00+00:00

Darcy dismissed his valet and stared in the mirror. Starched white cravat at a time like this? He had far more important business to be about than dining with Bingley and his houseguests. But without daylight, he could hardly be off and about looking for anything. Besides, where would he look? He and Walker had investigated everything that smelled of egg. Now they were reduced to aimless wanderings in hope of finding a potential hiding place.

What were Miss Elizabeth and that flying blue flutterbob doing here, convincing everyone her sister was far too ill to be moved?

Walker flew in through the open window and landed on the edge of the dressing table, assiduously avoiding the unstable mirror.

“Have you ascertained what Miss Elizabeth and her dragon entourage are doing here?” He buttoned his waistcoat.

“I do not like this, not at all. She is keeping the fairy dragon very close to herself—away from me. I have not been able to talk to her at all. I have already promised them both that no harm will come to the tuft-of-fluff from me. There is no reason at all for them to avoid me.” Walker preened the edge of his wing.

“And what of the cockatrice?”

“He had little more to say, only something about her father and the Blue Order—oh, and he does not much like you.” A loose feather drifted to the floor.

The cockatrice or Bennet? Probably both.

“I will keep that in mind, thank you ever so much. But that is of no help. Could you truly get no more information out of him?”

“Bennet wants his daughter here for some reason that probably has to do with the egg. But more I cannot say. You will have to talk to her yourself.”

“You know I cannot do that.” Darcy tugged his cuffs to show just below his jacket sleeves.

“More like you will not. You well know you can do nearly anything you want—at least anything I am willing to help cover for you. Tell her what happened at Ware. That should dispose her to share her secrets with you. You need her help.”

“You said that at the militia camp, and I dare say it all came to naught.” Darcy turned his back and wandered toward the open window.

“Hardly naught. You learned a great deal in the time you spent searching with her.”

“Nothing that I have not heard before.”

Walker launched himself toward the window and landed on the sill. “Reading it in the tomes of the Order is not the same as hearing it from someone who has experienced it firsthand.”

“She keeps a wyvern, not a firedrake. And a most peculiar one at that. How does her experience apply? Not at all. Merely amusing anecdotes to pass the time. Nothing I would call a worthy education in dragon keeping.”

“She is pretty, and you like to look at her.”

“What has that to do with any of this?” Darcy clutched his temples. Walker was truly annoying—and right—which made him all the more annoying.

“I like her.”

“So much the better for you.

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