When Will woke Elizabeth up in the morning, she just smiled sleepily at him and said, "Its Sunday, my darling, why are you waking me so early."
Will woke Elizabeth up the following Sunday morning and she just smiled sleepily at him and said, "Its Sunday, my darling, why are you waking me so early."
The light shone is her husband's eyes, "I thought we could go for a drive this morning or something else if you want." He bent and kissed her lips, "After last weekend's craziness, I just want to spend the day alone with my beautiful wife."
Elizabeth stroked Will's face with her fingers, "I'd love to spend the day with you but I've got homework to do and I need to study for a test that one of my sadistic teachers scheduled for Monday."
Will groaned and pulled her closer, "Are you sure that you have to study?"
"Yes, I have to study and get good grades; you want me to get into a good college, don't you?" She said as she kissed him.
Will pulled her even closer and buried his face in her hair. He kissed her hungrily and she responded with a passion that she couldn't deny. He found her full breasts and caressed her as he kissed her desperately. She raked her nails lightly against his back and he moaned with intense pleasure. He dropped his mouth to taste her beautiful breasts and she responded passionately.
They pleasured each other until they reached the ultimate release and lay entwined in each other's arms.
As Elizabeth lay comfortably wrapped in her husband's arms, he kissed her fore head and asked, "Elizabeth, what colleges are you going to apply to?"
She looked at him, giggled and kissed his lips, "Sometimes you ask the funniest questions at the strangest times." She looked up into his eyes and saw the intense look in his eyes and answered with a shrug, "You know all the normal colleges, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley and UCLA."
As she watched him, his face was unreadable and she couldn't help but wonder why. Will forced his lips into a smile and said, "Well I guess you had better get to your homework done if you are going to get into one of those colleges." He pulled her tight to him and kissed her lightly, "Plus I'm hoping that you will get done early so that we can spend some time together."
"I'll do my best." She said as Will pushed her out of bed. He watched her as she got dressed before he got up, dressed and walked toward his study. Working was not the way he had planned to spend his Sunday but if Elizabeth was working, he figured he might as well work also.
An hour later, he heard a knock on his door and lifted his head in delighted surprise because he thought Elizabeth had finished her studies early. He called, "Come in."
Georgie came in and his whole body deflated with disappointment. Georgie noticed his reaction and said with a grin, "Elizabeth is still studying but I thought you would like some company." Her face widened in a wicked smile, "Silly me."
Will laughed and said, "Of course I'm happy for your company."
Georgie looked at her brother who seemed preoccupied and deep in thought, "Will, is there something bothering you?"
"You know me so well." He sighed as he thought for a moment before saying, "Elizabeth is planning to go to college."
"I know that," Georgie said with an unreadable expression on her face, "and so did you. Why else do you think she works so hard at school?"
"I knew that she was going to college." He shook his head, "But I never actually thought about her leaving us to go to college."
"Oh, I see." Georgie nodded her head, "To you college was just this vague idea and you didn't consider the reality of what it would mean for Elizabeth to go to college."
"That's it exactly." Will cupped his head in his hands, "I can't lose Elizabeth now because I love her so much that I can't even bear the thought of her leaving. She mentioned going to Harvard and Yale and that is just unacceptable because I can't imagine her being gone for the whole school year." He looked into his sister's expressive eyes, "Georgie, what am I going to do?"
"Big brother, it's not like she's leaving tomorrow." Georgie said reasonably, "You've still have a while before a decision has to be made." She hugged him and said, "Besides remember that Elizabeth loves you, too and I'm sure she feels the same way as you do."
He looked at Georgie and knew that she was just trying to help but Elizabeth still hadn't told him that she loved him and this was another sore spot in his marriage for Will.
He sighed and said, "You're right, of course, I'm worrying for nothing." Just saying that out loud buoyed his feelings and he said, "We have plenty of time to work out the logistics. We are married so it's not like she's a normal teenager leaving her parents for college." He looked at Georgie, "Thanks, little sister, your talk helped me a lot."
Darcy tried to concentrate of business for the next few hours but his mind kept thinking taking him back to the college issue. He was no closer to an answer a few hours later when Elizabeth walked into his study.
He couldn't help but smile when he saw her and his heart surged with love for this woman.
She sidled up to her husband with a mischievous smile and said, "I made sure that I finished early so we would have some time together." She sat on Will and straddled his lap as she said softly in his ear, "Are you happy?"
"Extremely," Will said as he pulled his wife in for a soft kiss but when he touched her, a hungry need erupted from him and his drank from her lips like a man dying of thirst. She responded by wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.
With a moan of anticipation he stood and sat her on the edge of his desk. With quick movements he pulled off her shorts and panties. Elizabeth looked at him her eyes wide with surprise.
"Will, we can go upstairs."
His voice was a low growl when he whispered, "I want you right now."
She leaned forward to unbutton his jeans and slid them off his hips. She leaned back as she quivered with anticipation. He ran his hands over the curve of her hips as he took her with desperate need and passion. They made love with a ferocity that brought them to the culmination of their pleasure quickly. When they both reached the peak as they found their release, he lifted her into his arms and pulled her back with him onto his office chair.
"I wanted you so badly," Will said as he cuddled her to his body, "Did I hurt you?"
"I may have a few bruises in a couple of unusual places." She said with a motion toward the desk, "But I enjoyed that every bit as much as you did." She kissed him gently and moved her hands under his shirt as she explored his back while she slipped her hands lower to his rear end.
An instant later, Elizabeth raised herself with a jolt and stood up with an uttered exclamation, "Oh no!"
Will reached to pull her back down on his lap and he asked, "What's wrong, my dear."
"Will, we didn't use protection." She moved away from him and found her cloths and dressed quickly, "What if I'm pregnant?"
Will stood up and pulled on his jeans, "Darling, we'll worry about that when the time comes." That wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. He glanced up at his wife's worried face and realized that he hoped she had gotten pregnant. But he certainly wouldn't express that thought to her.
He pulled her into his arms to comfort her and said, "I'm sorry, baby, I just wanted you so badly that I forgot."
"It's not your fault." Elizabeth said, "You weren't the only one who forgot." She let her breath out with a sigh. "There's nothing either of us can do about it now."
He nuzzled her neck and drank in her scent as he said in a husky voice, "I think it's time to go upstairs to our bedroom."
"You are insatiable." She said with a weak smile.
"I'm not the only one." He said as he lifted her from her feet and proceeded upstairs where he would make love to his wife at a very leisurely pace this time.
Elizabeth didn't sleep well that night because she was worried and woke up to Will gently shaking her while he kissed her lightly, "You're going to be late for school."
She glanced at the clock and snuggled back into his chest, "I've got another half hour to sleep."
"No you don't." Will was firm, "Remember I made an appointment to take your bug to my mechanic to get a tune up." He pulled her to him and lifted her onto his lap to cradle her, "We need to drop it off and then I'm taking you to school."
"Yeah, I forgot." Elizabeth said as she moved to get up.
"Not so fast." Will said with a smirk and said, "You haven't given me my morning kiss."
With a lift of her eye, she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and stood up quickly.
He stood, pulled her to him and wrapped her in his arms, "That was not a kiss." He leaned in to kiss her, "This is a kiss."
He captured her lips with a passionate kiss that left her breathless for more. She raised her eyes to look at him through dark lashes. He kissed the top of her head, turned her toward the bathroom and patted her on the back side. "Scoot before we are late and I'll go make sure that Georgie is up."
After he dropped Elizabeth and Georgie off at the high school, Will drove to the winery and went to Bingley's office. As he walked into the office he found Charles and Jane locked into a passionate embrace.
Will cleared his throat loudly and as the couple broke apart with acute embarrassment he said, "This is a place of business." He grinned wickedly and said, "This kind of behavior is not acceptable to management."
Charles was grinning and pulled Jane closer to him, "Will Darcy expressing a sense of humor, I think that Elizabeth has been a good influence on you."
"You don't know how much." Will thoughts turned to his wife and his grin widened.
"This sounds like the start of some man talk and I certainly don't want to intrude." Jane said as she withdrew from Bingley's embrace and walked to the door before she turned and said, "I've got lots of work to do and this is a place a business."
Will told Charles what had happened the day before and at the end he said, "I want Elizabeth to have a baby but I know she doesn't want to have one until she's out of school." He said a little pensively, "I was only thinking until the end of high school but what if she meant that she wants to wait until after she graduates from college." Will sighed, "My life has become so complicated and I don't know how work this dilemma out."
Charles walked Will to his office and said, "You and Elizabeth with figure everything out because she is a reasonable woman." Bingley looked at his friend with a chuckle, "Although you're not reasonable, you do love her and I think in time you will both find the right answer."
Will said with a sigh, "You're right; we'll work this out, thanks for listening to me."
"Will I have to talk to you about something and I know you won't like it." Bingley said as he picked up a stack of paper before he began to speak quickly, "Now that you are married, you are expected to attend more social events. People want to meet your wife and as a prominent business owner in the community you are expected to be in attendance to the kind of events that I know you do not like and have not attended in the past."
"Are those the invitations?" Will asked and Charles nodded, "I'll take them home so that Elizabeth and I can pick the ones that we want to attend." He saw Bingley take a deep breath, "Does that make you happy?"
"It most certainly does because I know that Elizabeth will be able to pick what is best for the two of you."
"Now with that out of the way we should probably get some actual work done." Will said with a laugh as he looked at his friend.
Elizabeth walked to English class and as she went in she was surprised to see a substitute teacher at the desk but that was not anything to the astonishment when he turned and she saw that it was Greg Williams. This was the man she had scheduled a date with but that Will had made her cancel when they starting dating. She cursed the bad luck that had brought him to her school at this time.
"I'm Mr. Williams, your teacher, Miss Carlson has left to get married and so I am going to be taking over for the rest of the year." He caught Elizabeth's eyes and smiled, "Please pass your homework forward and we will get started for the day."
When the class ended, Elizabeth sighed with relief as she gathered her books until she heard his well-modulated voice call out, "Miss Bennet… I mean Mrs. Darcy, could you please meet me here after your last class this afternoon, I need to discuss your homework."
"Yes sir." She said and heard him laugh softly.
After her last class, she found Georgie and said, "Mr. Williams wants to discuss my homework right now." She said, "Would you please let Will know that I'll be there as soon as possible."
"No problem." Georgie said as she walked toward the parking lot.
Elizabeth went into her English classroom and saw that Mr. Williams was waiting for her. "You needed to talk to me about my homework." Elizabeth said as she walked toward the desk.
"That was just a little white lie." Mr. Williams said as he walked around to the front of his desk and sat on the corner.
"Then why did you want to see me?" Elizabeth asked as she started to feel more and more uncomfortable.
"I wanted to make sure that things wouldn't be awkward between us." He said with a smooth voice. "I mean I was awfully disappointed when you broke our date so abruptly last year but I guess I can understand now since I have found out that you have married Will Darcy. I mean, how could a lowly teacher who met you in a Jamba Juice compete with a wealthy man like Darcy?"
"I didn't marry Will for his money." Elizabeth was furious that he would make those allegations, "I cancelled our date when Will and I got serious that's all."
"When you got serious," Williams openly mocked her, "You got so serious after just one date. I find that very hard to believe."
Elizabeth eyes grew wide, "How do you know when Will and I started dating? Have you been stalking me?"
"Of course not," His raised his eyes, "But I do have ways of finding out information that I want to know." He moved closer to her and she tried to back away but he caught her by the arm, "I wanted you very badly so I really needed to find out why you had cancelled our date."
"Mr. Williams, let me go." Elizabeth demanded as she struggled to free herself.
"Not until I get what I want." Williams said with a soft voice that sent horrified shivers down Elizabeth's spine and she struggled even harder.
"Wickham, get your hands off my wife." Elizabeth turned with relief to find her husband striding into the room with furious anger darkening his face.
"Whatever you want," He said smoothly as he let her go and she ran to Will, "But did you know that your sweet little wife here was mine first."
"That's not true." Elizabeth's and Will's voice mingled with their joint refusal.
"Did she ever tell you that she was going out with me when she met you?" He laughed as Will looked down at his wife sharply.
"I guess not." He said with a laugh and demanded, "Now get out of my classroom."
Will put his around Elizabeth and walked her from the room but instead of going toward the parking lot he led her towards the office.
"Where are we going?" She asked.
"To see Principal Annesley," Will's answer was brusque as he opened the door and marched into the principal's office.
"What is going on that you need to burst in on me, Mr. Darcy?" Mrs. Annesley asked.
"I'm here because of the substitute teacher that you hired," Will answered, "I believe that you call him Mr. Williams but his name is really George Wickham and he is a pedophile."
"How do you know that?" The principal was shocked by his pronouncement.
Will sighed, "Before sending Georgie to school here, I had her in a private boarding school back east." He tightened his arm around Elizabeth, "George Wickham was a teacher there and tried to convince my sister to run away with him. I arrived in time to stop them and she admitted everything to me. The school had no choice but to press charges and release him as a teacher once I had caught him in a compromising position with my thirteen year old sister." Will let out the breath he had been holding, "Just a few minutes ago, I caught him in a room alone with my wife and he was holding her against her will as she was begging him to release her and struggling to get free." He motioned to the red hand print on Elizabeth's arm. "I know that they released him from jail on his own recognizance as he awaited trial and he must have somehow secured his freedom by changing his name and leaving the jurisdiction in which he was caught."
Will proceeded to give Mrs. Annesley the details of the school and the name of the police detective who had arrested Wickham.
"I will check this out and if this is as you say then I will press charges against him in this jurisdiction." Mrs. Annesley said as Will moved to leave.
"Goodnight Mrs. Annesley and you will find the events as I have related them to you." Will said stiffly as he guided Elizabeth through the door and walked her to the car.
On the way home, Will stopped to pick up Elizabeth's car and when they had secured their cars in the driveway, he whispered in her ear, "We need to talk."
She nodded as she let him lead her to their bedroom and as they entered he locked the door to ensure their privacy.
"Will…" She started to speak but he interrupted.
"Elizabeth Darling, did he hurt you?" Will asked as he kissed her lightly.
"Just a little bit," Elizabeth admitted as she looked into his eyes and saw the love in their depths, "What he said was true, he was the man that I had a date with the day after my birthday."
"It's okay; you couldn't have known his true character." Will said with tenderness as he kissed his wife to comfort her, "And we both knew he was lying about the other because you were truly an innocent when we married. I never doubted you for a minute." Will's voice cracked with heavy emotion, "I love you, my lovely Elizabeth."
"Will, I love you too." Elizabeth said as she reached out to stroke his face with her fingers.
Will's heart surged with love and joy as he pulled her to him. She loves me. He could hardly believe that he was hearing the words that he had been longing to hear for such a long time. He lifted her up and twirled her in a circle with extreme happiness.
He lay her down on their bed and the happy couple made love long into the night until they were exhausted but still exhilarated.