I'd meant to post this yesterday. Most of this chapter is redacted. The full chapter is up on my website violetkingauthor DOT com. I'm posting the next chapter here now too because there's almost nothing in this one I realized (outside of the redactions)...
Chapter 4
Darcy was dreaming. It was a wonderful dream. He had left his wife's rooms, fallen into bed, and found her in his arms. She pressed against him... and he kissed her. He nibbled her full, lower lip... Wanton. A mistress and a wife.
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Darcy didn't know how long he lay, entangled in the dream arms of his wife. Eventually, the small sounds of someone moving. His bed was cold and hard. He kept his eyes shut. Better to fall asleep and wake in the morning than alone in the cold night.
Elizabeth, dream Elizabeth, agreed. She took his hand and said, "Come, Fitz. Let us return to bed."
"Hmm..."
His mouth was dry. Where was he? This was not his bedroom. Had he wandered again?
"Come, Fitz. We cannot have the servants find us together, here, like this."
Like what? The fog of his dream lifted. Darcy clung to it as he took his wife's hand. He kept his eyes shut, stumbling beside her in the darkness.
A dream. It must have been a dream.
Thank you for reading!
Seriously, that was mostly redacted. I'm posting the next chapter now. And Chapters 5-6 are going up on my site today. Book is live tomorrow :D
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