Tempting Mr. Darcy (Pemberley Tales Book 4): Pemberley Tales, #4

By Aurora Fairfax

Pemberley's first ball and Elizabeth, the new Mistress of Pemberley, is suitably nervous. Mr. Darcy on the other hand is grumpy. As host, his has been roped into dancing with the young ladies present, yet the only lady he wishes to dance with, is his wife.

Even his attempt to sneak a few kisses during the ball is interrupted, so that he feels the need to claim his just reward once all the guests have left. 

Please note: Tempting Mr. Darcy  is an intimate and sensual Pride and Prejudice variation and only intended for a mature audience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cassidy Wilde
• Release date: Jul 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386987307

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Tempting

Mr. Darcy

Pemberley Tales

By Aurora Fairfax

Copyright © May 2017

All Rights Reserved.

Tempting Mr. Darcy

Pandemonium reigned in Pemberley’s once quiet and solemn halls. People bustled back and forth, carrying furniture from one place to another and back again, while maids seemed intent on cleaning even the most neglected corners of the rooms and hallways.

Fitzwilliam Darcy watched the flurry of activity with an amused eye. He took a step back when several footmen carrying chairs rushed down the corridor, the stringent admonishments of Mrs. Reynolds, Pemberley’s competent housekeeper, trailing after them.

He wondered where his wife had disappeared to. Over the last few days, she’d turned into a veritable whirlwind, trying to be everywhere and do everything at once. It had left her exhausted yet also fretting with nerves. Pemberley was having its first ball, and she was understandably nervous as well as busy with the preparations.

Darcy could understand why she wanted everything to be perfect and did his utmost best to support her. It was the first ball she was responsible for as Mistress of Pemberley. And that responsible weighed heavily on her although Darcy had the utmost trust in her and her skills. While her mother might have neglected parts of her training, Elizabeth was highly intelligent and had a good working relationship with Mrs. Reynolds. It was also good practice for Georgiana and Kitty who were assisting Elizabeth and running errands for her.

Elizabeth had also already endeared herself to the servants and tenants of Pemberley and most of them were happy to help out. Their neighbors were just as delighted by Pemberley’s new mistress. He knew that all the ladies and gentlemen of their acquaintances were eagerly awaiting Pemberley’s first ball.

Unfortunately, Bingley and his wife Jane, Elizabeth beloved older sister, were unable to come as Jane was expecting her first child and was already too far along to travel comfortably from Netherfield to Pemberley. While everyone was looking forward to the newest Bingley, their presence would be sorely missed. Elisabeth probably really would have appreciated the support of her older and calmer sister.

While his own sister Georgiana and Elizabeth’s younger sister, Katherine, were staying at Pemberley, they wouldn’t be able to offer the same kind of support and gentle guidance that Jane would have offered.

With a sigh, Darcy stepped out of the path of two maids and looked around again. Elizabeth had to be around here somewhere. She hadn’t been in her downstairs office or upstairs in her private boudoir.

Looking for something? an amused voice suddenly asked behind him.

Darcy turned around and smiled at the man who’d snuck up on him. His cousin, Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam, had arrived just a few days ago. Darcy had been glad to see him and grateful for the additional male presence in his household. Between his wife, sister, and sister-in-law, he