The Dramas by Elizabeth Adams

Author:Elizabeth Adams [Adams, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

“It is not that I wish him to be alone forever. On the contrary, I have long wished he would find a woman to love.” Marianne pulled her wrapper on rather forcefully. “I simply do not wish to be blindsided.”

Henry turned her to face him and put his hands on her shoulders. “Are you certain that is it?” he asked gently.

“Why didn’t he tell me?” she asked in a small voice.

“It is likely he does not know himself.”

She sighed and looked at the floor. “You are probably right. Or perhaps he intends to do nothing about it, or perhaps he is concerned for Luke’s feelings.”

“Or all of that and more.”

Marianne moved to the bed and sat down heavily. “I know it is odd, but I have never had to share him before. There were our other cousins, of course, and our siblings and parents, but it always felt like it was me and Fitz, and everyone was joining us. I never felt like I was on the outside of his life.”

“It will be an adjustment.”

“Yes,” she said absently.

“He likely felt similarly when you and I wed.”

Her head popped up. “Really?”

“You were incredibly close. Do you not remember how you spent half the season at Darcy House instead of with your parents? Or how he escorted you to every event in Town the Season before we married?”

“Yes, I remember,” she said softly. Fitz had been wonderful. Thoughtful and considerate, always listening, ready with a good word of advice or a way to make her laugh. “He was afraid my marrying would change our relationship.”

“Has it?”

“Yes. How could it not? He was the most important man in my life besides my father. You usurped them both,” she said with a fond smile. “But I still love him as much as I ever did.”

He sat next to her on the bed. “But you have other responsibilities now. He is no longer your first priority.”

“No, he is not.” She rested her hand on her husband’s arm. “I was terribly insensitive to Fitz when I left him. I am being justly repaid for it now.” She sniffled a little.

“I would hardly call marrying me leaving your cousin.”

“Trust me, he saw it as my leaving him. We had been together our entire lives. You’ve heard the stories. Mother and Lady Anne were pregnant together, and little Fitz was only four weeks old when I came along. Neither of us would stop crying until they put us side by side in the cradle.” Her voice broke and she fiddled with the tie on her wrapper. “Our mothers were inseparable, as their mothers before them. It is a family tradition, you see.” She gave him a watery smile and he stroked her hair.

“Then we should hurry him along to find a wife. How else will our children be inseparable from his?”

She laughed and rested her head on her husband’s shoulder, her gaiety quickly giving way to tears.

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