Gamble on Engagement by Rachel Astor

Author:Rachel Astor
Language: nl
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: mcmaster the disaster, celebrity, engagement, paparazzi, bridesmaid, diary, movie star, wedding, london, scandal, disaster diary
Publisher: Rachel Astor
Published: 2012-02-02T09:50:38+00:00

In the middle of nowhere.

“What? What is it?” I asked, scanning the landscape in every direction, wondering what on Earth the problem was.

It hadn’t even occurred to me, given the way I’d been half asleep—okay, I might have been all the way to drooling—that there might not be anything wrong at all.

“I just had to show you something,” he said, getting out of the car.

I scrambled to get out my side, fumbling in my half-drunken stupor. Leo was already making his way around to my side of the car and proceeded to walk directly into the ditch.

I went to follow, but stopped myself, shedding my shoes and tossing them back onto the seat. I may have been drunk, but I was nowhere near drunk enough to risk messing up a pair of perfectly good Manolos.

Leo had walked far ahead, finally turning to make sure I was following, which I was, but I’d lagged a fair bit behind.

“Come on,” he yelled, holding his hand out to me.

I tried to hurry, but the uneven ground was wreaking havoc on my feet. I could only hope I wasn’t too drunk to feel if I was really injuring myself on the rocky ground.

When I got to Leo, he took my hand to help me the final few steps. “I just remembered I used to come out here when I was a kid… well, a teenager, anyway.”

“Oh, is that why you decided to buy the castle out here?” I asked. “It is really pretty.”

He shrugged. “Maybe subconsciously or something.” He took a few more steps, kind of dragging me along. “Just a little further…”

And then we crested the hill.

And what I saw, there were no words for. The hill looked out over a field of wildflowers. But it wasn’t just the field of flowers that took my breath away, it was the full moon gleaming down on that field. The way it shone, the colors so bright, almost as if they were glowing from within, out of the moonlight. The green of the leaves and stems was like the backdrop on an artist’s canvas, the reds, yellows, and pinks contrasting so vividly, even though the nighttime made it seem like the whole world had an overlay of blue film. It was hard to believe this was the real world, and not some Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole we’d fallen into.

“Whoa…” was all I could say.

“I know. I’m sorry for stopping. I just had to see it. There’s only a certain kind of night when it looks like this. The moon has to be right. They don’t come along very often.”

“No, it’s okay. Thank you for showing me,” I said, unable to unglue my gaze from the scene in front of me.

Eventually, I closed my mouth and sat down. Leo sat next to me. Even Reginald was lurking not too far away, no doubt wanting to enjoy the landscape just as much as us.

I suddenly wished I hadn’t been so tipsy, and hoped that my foggy head wasn’t clouding my vision of this miracle.

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