Swipe Left on Mr. Darcy — Swipe Right，第 11 頁
作者：Inkroost · 發布於
文字記錄
George tells his story, the panels shifting from warm sepia memory to cold grey betrayal. A teenage George laughs beside Darcy's kindly grey-haired father, an arm around his shoulder. George: 'His dad treated me like a second son.' The older man shakes young George's hand warmly, as if making a promise. George: 'Promised me a place in the business.' A stern young Darcy stands apart, arms folded, watching coldly. Darcy coldly closes a door on a stunned young George. George: 'Then his father died.' Young George stands alone in the rain outside the big house, holding a single box of belongings. George: 'Darcy made sure I got nothing.' Back in the warm cafe, George gives a small, brave, rueful shrug. George: 'Anyway. Ancient history.'
圖片說明
A six-panel flashback: warm memories of young George welcomed by Darcy's kindly father, shifting to cold grey panels of a stern Darcy shutting George out after the father's death, then back to George shrugging it off in the cafe.
關於本章
Home at last and thoroughly rattled — because Mr. Darcy was kind, and that was not supposed to happen — Lizzie does the only sensible thing and reopens the dating app to reset herself. She swipes right on George Wickham: warm, funny, easy, everything Darcy is not. Coffee is effortless until his eyes catch on the word 'Netherfield' and he lets slip that he and Darcy go way back. Then comes the story — the two of them practically raised as family, a promise of a place in the business, and Darcy quietly making sure that after his father died, George got nothing. It's wounded, it's gracious, and it hands Lizzie exactly the villain she wanted back. She leaves vindicated, her old verdict re-cemented — never noticing the cold, calculating flicker behind George's easy smile the moment she looks away, nor the way Darcy's unexpected kindness still snags at the very edge of her certainty.