Without feeling for the poor man, he barked out, “Is Mrs Darcy here?” “Yes, sir, she arrived—” Darcy heard no more than that. He very nearly ran down the hall to the drawing room, entering to find his wife seated on a chair across from her aunt. “Elizabeth!” With no thought for anything around them, or anything which had passed between them, Darcy crossed the drawing room and nearly lifted her off the chair, pulling her into a tight embrace, then claiming her lips in the way that he had once before and that had lived in his memory ever since. In some part of his mind, he heard the clatter of
Without feeling for the poor man, he barked out, “Is Mrs Darcy here?” “Yes, sir, she arrived—” Darcy heard no more than that. He very nearly ran down the hall to the drawing room, entering to find his wife seated on a chair across from her aunt. “Elizabeth!” With no thought for anything around them, or anything which had passed between them, Darcy crossed the drawing room and nearly lifted her off the chair, pulling her into a tight embrace, then claiming her lips in the way that he had once before and that had lived in his memory ever since. In some part of his mind, he heard the clatter of a dish or saucer falling and the gasp of someone, probably Mrs Gardiner, but it did not signify. All that mattered was Elizabeth and holding her in his arms. When he paused for breath, he said, fiercely, “I care nothing for anything that has gone before. I love you, more than I have loved anyone in my life long, and I shall spend the rest of my days if needed to earn your love in return. I will do everything and anything I can to make you happy, to be a man worthy of you, to-to…to make amends for everything.” Elizabeth was beautiful, albeit dazed and astonished-looking, and managed only to utter, “Yes. Um, I would like that.” Though they were in company, and it might have seemed indecent, he gave her one more tender kiss before easing his grasp slightly. There was an uncertain air in the room while everyone recovered from the shock of his arrival and of his actions. Saye, ever the exp...
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