Mrs. Bennet sighed with unnecessary force. “I was just discussing with Jane how after she’s married, you should be next.” A full-body shudder of revulsion rolled through him, spreading from his stomach to his toes and the tips of his fingers. It wasn’t so much the thought of marriage itself that was so off-putting, just the role he was expected to play in one. He couldn’t be someone’s wife. It would kill him.
