Expecting His Proposal: A Darcy and Elizabeth Short Story ✤ NEW RELEASE EXCERPT + GIVEAWAY!

Hooray! My newest release is available now. Here's the story's premise: What if Elizabeth was indeed expecting Darcy's initial proposal? Expecting His Proposal ranked #1 Best Seller in Classic Short Stories and #1 Best Seller in Historical Fiction Short Stories within hours of its Amazon release. I'm truly grateful for the enthusiastic response.

Here's an excerpt:

Rosings Park, Kent

The frequency of Elizabeth’s encounters with Mr. Darcy during her rambles within the park excited her hopes beyond measure. Their meetings were not at all by chance either, for he always turned back and walked with her. Their meetings were by his design—he wanted to spend time with her, away from the inquiring eyes of others. His scheme suited Elizabeth just fine.

He never said a great deal, and not wanting to give the impression of being just another doting female who was always speaking, and looking, and thinking for his approbation alone, Elizabeth sought to guard her discourse as well. How sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention he must be. How he must thoroughly despise the persons who so assiduously court him. Elizabeth was far too clever to behave accordingly.

When he did talk, he asked odd, unconnected questions—about her pleasure in being at Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Collins’s happiness. In speaking of Rosings, he seemed to expect that whenever she came into Kent again she would be staying there too. The implications of his words could only mean one thing.

Her dear friend Charlotte, in whose home Elizabeth was a guest, had once or twice suggested to Elizabeth the possibility of Mr. Darcy’s being partial to her. Elizabeth always laughed, for it would not do to allow her friend to know just how keen she was on the idea.

Elizabeth proceeded slowly along the path. She was growing a bit concerned that the time was quickly approaching for Mr. Darcy to be away from Kent, and still, he had not proposed to her. Her confidence that it was only a matter of time waned with each passing minute. What on earth was I thinking that I might attract such a man?

She was no stranger to the fact that Mr. Darcy supposedly was promised to his cousin Miss Anne de Bourgh. Indeed, her curiosity to know more about the young woman who held the position she often had wished was her own was one of the things that persuaded her to accept Charlotte’s invitation. Even though it would mean spending weeks in the company of her odious cousin, Mr. William Collins, whose hand Elizabeth had wisely spurned, it would be well worth it.

Whenever Elizabeth found herself in the company of Mr. Darcy and his cousin at Rosings, she often looked at Darcy to see how affectionately he regarded Miss de Bourgh, but never once could she discern any symptom of love. On the other hand, Elizabeth had felt herself the happy recipient of a great deal of his attention.

He had given hints of admiring her in Hertfordshire as well. Never expecting she might ever see him again after he and his friend Charles Bingley hastily returned to London soon after the Netherfield ball, Elizabeth’s surprise in seeing him in Kent was palpable. Her delight in being the recipient of his ardent attentions once again was even more so.

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