Pride & Prejudice- modern version
Chapter 1
Just another morning in the always so awake New York City, William Darcy got of his limo, on his elegant black suit and his Blackberry, and walked into his building, yes, he owned the big computer making company Devonshire & Pemberly, the one his father had founded 35 years ago, he had a passion for early computers, and although William Darcy was only 28, he shared this interest and was honoured to inherit it after his death, he remembered how close he was to his mother until she died giving birth to Georgiana when he was 13, but that didn´t stop him from establishing a very loving relationship with his sister, and then his father, the one who taught him the world of business, he tried not to think about his parents´ death, it had been 5 years and for 5 years Devonshire & Pemberly had increased its sales and economy remarkably thanks to him.
Everyone in there and maybe in all New York knew who was THE boss, everyone would respect him wherever he went, his employees were very loyal to him and to the company although their relationship was zero intimate and 100% professional, just instructions and business talk, he was a workaholic indeed, but it was working, he was a multi- millionaire, he didn´t go out much, except for business or Upper East Side parties, but that was just for compromise, he didn´t really like the people there, all ambitious men and women who swore the world went around them and their ego and gossip was always the order of the day, he would spend Christmas every year with Georgiana and …well, his aunt Mrs. Catherine de Bourgh, God, how much he despised that woman, but she was his beloved mother´s sister, she had always been very strict with him, still treating him like a child and insisting upon him marrying her daughter Anne, so he would have to marry his cousin. Was that woman not crazy? Didn´t she know that people stopped doing that mainly because of all the genetic diseases and mutations it provoked?
He didn´t even had time to date, not to mention that he didn´t know anyone but shallow snakes who would literally throw themselves at him for his name and his money. Didn´t they have a personality and some self- respect? Sometimes he would catch himself fantasizing about loving a woman, but a different one, one who would love him, who was smart, and beautiful, and kind, and strong, and… ok yeah he was asking for too much, he would shudder the fantasy right away. But then again and again. He tried to distract himself by going to Barnes & Noble, he liked it there, it was quiet, intellectual, he was in the classical novel section going through all the books when suddenly, he felt a human body crash against him, he turned around and beside him was a young girl, well, she was like 20 but she looked so young, she was beautiful, her cream- tone skin matched with her brown hair cut in fangs and her incredibly deep brown eyes, even with her youth she looked somehow wise, like she could teach him the purpose of his own life , he stared into her eyes for a moment trying to figure them out when he was interrupted by her voice.
Sorry sir.
What? Oh, eh, yeah, ….. sure, no problem- he started muttering feeling like an idiot.
By the look in her eyes he could say (and that was all he could say) she recognized who he was , the handsome, rich, cold, Mr. William Darcy, and yet, all he got was a "sorry sir".