Darcy and Elizabeth's First Night: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

By Caitlin Marie Carrington and A Lady

Elizabeth Bennet has never been happier: she is married—finally!—to her true love, Mr. Darcy.

But when Elizabeth's youngest sister Lydia reveals scandalous details about what her own husband, Mr. Wickham, expects in bed, Elizabeth begins to fear her wedding night.

She decides she will postpone any further intimacies. After all, isn't lively conversation as satisfying as anything else between a husband and wife?

Not according to her husband! Will Fitzwilliam Darcy be able to put aside his pride—and break through his innocent bride's prejudices—in order to woo her?

It might take all his skill, and more than one night, but thankfully, Fitzwilliam Darcy has ways to tempt the love of his life. It turns out, he's not so very proper once behind closed doors…

This sensual, intimate variation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is full of love, laughter, misunderstandings, steamy scenes…and true love! With its high heat level, it is best enjoyed by readers 18 years of age or older.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Caitlin Marie Carrington
• Release date: Feb 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781508060307

Caitlin Marie Carrington

By day, Caitlin Marie Carrington juggles motherhood, her editing job, one surly cat and all the adorable drama that life with small children (and one giant husband) entails.  By night, she imagines new adventures for our dear couple, Elizabeth and Darcy.  Visit her at caitlinmariecarrington.com.

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Chapter 1

W ell , are you ready? Lydia spoke to her older sister, Elizabeth, but the young woman's eyes were scanning the crowds at Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy's wedding breakfast.

Fitzwilliam, Elizabeth reminded herself. She no longer needed to call the great man Mr. Darcy. She was—and she had to surreptitiously pinch herself to believe it—his wife now. As of three hours ago.

And, she needed to remember that he preferred she call him Will. Will, or just Darcy, as my dearest friends do. Either name felt so intimate, so sweet, so strange upon her tongue. Like new fruits she loved the taste of, but could not yet swallow.

Ready for what? Elizabeth said. She studied Lydia, so recently married herself. Though, of course, due to her hastily patched-up marriage—for that was what the Bennet family had taken to calling sixteen-year-old Lydia's running off with Mr. Wickham—her father had not welcomed his youngest daughter's bridegroom back for Elizabeth's wedding.

So Lydia had come alone, accompanied by a servant and companion Mr. Darcy—just Darcy—had sent for her.

Elizabeth bit her lip and shook her head. The generosity of her husband (still such an odd word, even to think just in one's head!) knew no bounds. And, of course, neither did his pocketbook. She nervously smoothed her white dress; it had to have cost a fortune, but Darcy had not appeared to mind, at all. In fact, he had insisted on a new bonnet, new shoes, and a new chemise that was, in truth, the softest thing Elizabeth thought she had ever felt against her body.

She took a deep breath, and her skin seemed extra-sensitive and alive underneath her wedding dress, caressed by the smoothest silk. She found her husband in the crowd, across the room, and their eyes met—his a deep, dark gray that still took her breath away. It wasn't just the beautiful, unusual color of his eyes. It was the fire in them, the way they seemed to glow and burn when he looked at her.

Just at her.

Elizabeth swallowed, and smiled shyly at him.

Ready for what? she remembered to reply to her sister.

Lydia nodded at two officers who were staring over at her, still a terrible flirt despite the ring on her finger, then turned to Elizabeth. Why, ready for your wedding night, silly goose!

Elizabeth smiled, bemused. She was almost five years older than Lydia, but because her sister had been the first of the Bennet girls to marry, the youngest felt very much superior to all her elders.

I suppose I am. We are packed and shall head to London after breakfast. I've never seen Mr. Darcy's London home. She couldn't quite bring herself to call him Will or Darcy, not in front of Lydia. It still felt…private. And special. And then after a few days there, we shall depart for Pemberley—

Oh, bother about London! I don't see why you need to go there, Lydia cried. She turned and took Elizabeth's hand, idly playing with her sister's new wedding ring, the large sapphire glinting in the late-morning light. Or, perhaps not idly. If Lydia was jealous that Elizabeth—much to everyone's surprise—had married a great man worth ten thousand a year, she would never admit to it.

But secretly, Kitty had told Elizabeth and their oldest sister, Jane, that Lydia was not at all pleased with her own new home. Or her new husband, who was often far afield from said new home.

She's wickedly jealous of you both, Kitty had laughed. "Especially you, Lizzy. Everyone expected Jane to marry well. She's the prettiest one, after all! But no one expected you to marry…well, perhaps at all! Not since you turned down Mr. Collins."

Kitty's words echoed through Elizabeth's mind, as Lydia twisted and turned her wedding ring. When she could stand it no longer, Elizabeth pulled her hand back.

Lydia didn't notice, or pretended not to. You two should just head straight to Pemberley. She got a wicked gleam in her flashing brown eyes. You'll just exhaust yourself, with all that travel. When really, you should be exhausting yourself between the sheets with your Fitzwilliam.

Lydia! Elizabeth gasped. She knew what to expect on her wedding night—or she thought she did. But still.

Reviews for Darcy and Elizabeth's First Night

[Elin Eriksen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is my favourite author of the intimacy between ODC. Combined with the intriguing story she adds to the erotic scenes, I have no complaints...

Entering at ODC's wedding breakfast.
Elizabeth got some rather disturbing and not particularly coordinated advice from a couple of her sisters.
Contained an intriguing carriage ride, wedding evening/night/morning and a titillating epilogue.

Heartily recommend this book for a mature audience.

[stuti · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed it!! I imagine everyone who loves P&P has wondered what happens after the end and this was a very good interpretaion of what might have happened.