Bewildered: The Beloved Series, #1

By Grace Reeve

While Elizabeth Darcy is suitably happy in her very fortunate marriage, she cannot help but feel as if something is missing.

When her husband comes to her with an interesting plea, she cannot help but be curious herself.

Bewildered is the first in a new series of intimate and sensual short stories by Grace Reeve. A sequel to Pride & Prejudice, the series will follow Elizabeth and Darcy as the newlyweds become acquainted with one other and learn how to be the sort of spouse the other deserves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Grace Reeve
• Release date: Dec 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393381044

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Bewildered

BEWILDERED

Part 1 of an Intimate Pride & Prejudice Variation

GRACE REEVE

Copyright © 2020 by Grace Reeve

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CONTENTS

Bewildered

Next Up

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Grace Reeve

BEWILDERED

It was a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman most recently made a bride to a man so utterly perfect as was Fitzwilliam Darcy, must be a happy woman indeed.

Elizabeth herself certainly could not find a reason to complain about her newly-found station in life. She wanted for nothing: not for gowns, for pin money, for ribbons and lace, for food in her belly, for endless areas to explore, nor even for books to read. Upon that material front, the new Mrs. Darcy was as happy as any newlywed woman had the right to be.

Likewise, her husband was amiable—more than amicable. One might even extend themselves to call him doting. Fitzwilliam could scarcely be in the same room as she without gazing upon his young wife with something akin to rapture. Whenever they walked together, he curled her hand into the crook of his elbow, slowing his own gait to match hers. To look at the pair, one wouldn't find anything amiss in their picture of blissful happiness.

And so Elizabeth found herself pondering this many nights. In rapt confusion, she wondered at the odd feeling in her belly that told her