Swipe Left on Mr. Darcy — Guard Down, Page 5
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Darcy, cool and noncommittal, his steel-grey eyes still on the doorway where Lizzie left. Darcy: 'And yet.' Caroline's thin polite smile tightens, her brows drawing in. Caroline: 'And yet what?'
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Darcy, eyes still on the doorway, gives a cool two-word answer; below, Caroline's polite smile tightens.
About this chapter
Still stranded at Netherfield while Jane's fever breaks, Lizzie has to survive days in the cool glass house in yesterday's clothes — trading barbs with Caroline, fielding Darcy's unguarded stares, and puncturing a smug drawing-room debate about what makes a woman a real catch. Then her family descends: Mrs. Bennet sweeps in with Lydia and Kitty to 'rescue' Jane, gushing over the house, sprawling on the designer furniture, and demanding Bingley throw a party — while Lizzie dies of embarrassment and Caroline drinks it in. Bracing for Darcy to confirm every cold thing she believes about him with a verdict on her circus of a family, Lizzie gets the opposite: he sidesteps the insult entirely and quietly tells her that her sister is lucky to have her. It disarms her more than any cruelty could — and her tidy verdict on Mr. Darcy starts to come apart.