A Tender Moment: Darcy and Elizabeth Short Stories, #4

By P. O. Dixon

What if two weeks after the Meryton assembly Darcy no longer wishes to deny his increasing fascination with the bewitching Miss Elizabeth Bennet and her amazing eyes? What if he's the last man in the world she wishes to spend time with owing to his tendency of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time? Will he persuade her to give him another chance to earn her good opinion?

• A Tender Moment contains 6,500 words. 
• All books in the Darcy and Elizabeth Short Stories series are stand-alone and may be read and enjoyed in any order.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Regents and Cotswold Book Group
• Release date: May 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781513074207

P. O. Dixon

Bestselling historical fiction author, P. O. Dixon, is a great admirer of Historical England and its fascinating days of yore. She, in particular, loves the Regency period with its strict mores and oh so proper decorum. Her ardent appreciation of Jane Austen's timeless works set her on the writer's journey. Visit podixon.com and find out more about Dixon's writings.

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§ Darcy and Elizabeth Short Stories Series

(Stand-alone books you may read and enjoy in any order)

Pride and Sensuality

Expecting His Proposal

A Tender Moment

Author’s Other Books

Everything Will Change Series

Lady Elizabeth

So Far Away

A Darcy and Elizabeth Love Affair Series

A Lasting Love Affair

‘Tis the Season for Matchmaking

Pride and Prejudice Untold Series

To Have His Cake (and Eat it Too)

What He Would Not Do

Lady Harriette

Darcy and Elizabeth Short Stories Series

Expecting His Proposal

Pride and Sensuality

A Tender Moment

Standalone

Impertinent Strangers

Bewitched, Body and Soul

To Refuse Such a Man

Dearest, Loveliest Elizabeth

Still a Young Man

Love Will Grow

Only a Heartbeat Away

As Good as a Lord

Matter of Trust

Almost Persuaded

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Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.

Jane Austen

Part 1 ~ Something So Wrong

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Elizabeth gazed in astonishment at the size of the party assembled at Sir William Lucas’s that evening. As Lucas Lodge neighbored her father’s estate, Longbourn Village, Elizabeth and all her sisters attended. In fact, everyone who was anyone in the town of Meryton and its surrounding villages was there, for this was yet another occasion to better his or her acquaintance with Mr. Charles Bingley. The young man had recently let Netherfield Park. Handsome and exceedingly agreeable, he was a single gentleman from the north of England who happened to be in possession of a rather large fortune.

Indeed, he and his party—his friend Mr. Darcy of Pemberley and Derbyshire, who was far richer and the far more handsome of the two, Bingley’s eldest sister, Louisa, her husband Mr. Hurst, and Bingley’s sister Caroline—had garnered everyone’s curiosity from near and far.

With varying degrees of enthusiasm, the Bennet daughters had looked forward to the evening. For one, it promised the youngest daughters the possibility of such merriment with the officers of the militia that had recently encamped outside of Meryton. Miss Mary Bennet, who, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, always welcomed such occasions as another chance to display her talent.

Elizabeth’s eldest sister, Jane, though she would never confess it, was particularly keen on seeing her Mr. Bingley, as those closest to Jane had begun referring to him. Although Jane had known him only a fortnight, her times with him were the making of some of the happiest memories of her life. She danced four dances with him at Meryton. That alone sufficed to excite her eager mama’s hopes. She saw him one morning at his house when the ladies of Longbourn waited on those of Netherfield, and had since dined with him in company four times. Though hardly enough time