The Winter of Our Discontent (Pride and Prejudice Variations #1)

The Winter of Our Discontent (Pride and Prejudice Variations #1)

Author: Grace Gibson Listening Length: 7h 17m
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I signed my maiden name first before memorialising my new name. Elizabeth Madeline Darcy. Elizabeth Bennet lay dead on the altar of matrimony. HAVING SIGNED THE REGISTER as Elizabeth Darcy, the former Miss Elizabeth Bennet must somehow survive a crushing scandal as a stranger to herself. Her unwilling husband is so out...

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FITZWILLIAM DARCY

She had missed me when I went to collect Georgiana!

She did not lower her guard sufficiently to say so, but of all her many willing attendants, only I could sit with her while she wrestled with her uneven temper, and only to me did she own how petulant she felt to be trapped in a bed at the mercy of her multitude of sympathetic visitors.

When I came in her room, her attendants politely excused themselves, and for this modicum of respect to my rank, I offered her what she craved—time in which she did not have to pretend to feel happier than she was.