An Heir for Pemberley: A Pride and Prejudice Variation Short Story

By Jane Grix

Fitzwilliam Darcy has it all - a beautiful, intelligent wife who loves him and she is expecting their first child.  But Darcy's mother died in childbirth and he worries that he could lose it all.

An Heir for Pemberley is a Pride and Prejudice Variation Short Story that takes about 15 minutes to read.  It is a quick escape to Pemberley.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jane Grix
• Release date: Apr 16, 2016
• ISBN: 9781533742018

Book preview

Fitzwilliam Darcy was in the morning room, reading a letter when one of the footmen interrupted.  Mrs. Darcy, sir, requests your presence in her bedroom.

Darcy bounded up the stairs to her bedroom and flung the door open.

Elizabeth was standing beside the bed, one hand on an end post to support herself.  She was wearing a morning dress but her hair had not been styled.  The dark tresses flowed past her shoulders, nearly to her waist.  She smiled at him weakly.  It begins, she said simply.

He gasped.  So soon?  You thought it would not be for two or three more weeks.

Apparently your son or daughter thinks otherwise.

Was that good?  An earlier babe would be smaller, perhaps easier to birth.  For all his reading, he knew little of the process.  He had not paid much attention when Georgiana was born and later he had not been home when his mother died.  Mrs. Reynolds! he bellowed. 

Elizabeth placed her hand on her large abdomen as if that would lessen the discomfort.  There is no need to shout, she said.  I have already sent for Mrs. Reynolds.

And the midwife?

Yes.

You sent a carriage?

Yes. 

Mrs. Clarke lived in Lambton.  It would take more than an hour, possibly two, to have her at Pemberley.  He mentally cursed his stupidity.  He should have asked