Playing by the Rules
Author:Rosa Temple
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 19
About a week after I’d heard from Hugo, and at a time when I was on a roll at work with the beginnings of my fashion show plans under way, I got an email from the man himself. I was thrown by the strange subject line, which read: Ten Years And Down. I thought it was some marketing gimmick and clicked Open just to see what these people were trying to sell me this time, not looking at the address the email originated from.
I was being bombarded by all kinds of emails from salespeople from all walks of life since my search history on Google made it clear that I was in the market for male models, advertising space, leather, theatres, galleries, art directors, PR companies, venues for hire, fashion students – in fact, anything and everything that sprang into my head to do with the fashion show ended up in my search bar. I needed a fabulous location (Ebony wasn’t able to swing it with Harrods) and as much publicity as possible.
But when I did click Open, I wasn’t faced with a wave of logos and promises from a company, just two simple words: Hello Magenta. That’s when I looked to see who the sender was. My mouse hovered over the Delete button but my eyes cast down at the blocks of text that seemed to go on and on for ever. How was I going to resist reading on?
I looked over at the mug of coffee I’d made, which was already going cold, and grabbed for it. I looked at my open office door and I could hear Anthony talking to someone on the phone in Italian to ask about shipping some of his forgotten artwork over to the UK as I had suggested. He sounded like he was in full flow and, if my GCSE Italian served me well, it sounded more personal than business and he might be tied up for a while. No one was likely to walk in. I began to read Hugo’s email.
Hello Magenta
And before you click Delete, please read on. I have a lot to say and I really want you to know what these ten years have been about.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath and then a sip of lukewarm coffee.
First of all, let me start by saying that there wasn’t a day that went by in all this time that I didn’t think about you and didn’t miss you. I guess you could say I’ve been on a journey. Corny, I know, but it’s true. It was a journey to find myself and the journey is over. What I found was a man who had made too many mistakes in his life and who met the girl he would love for the rest of his life at the wrong time and probably in the wrong place.
Lately I’ve come to realise that we tell ourselves that there is a right time and place for things to happen in our lives because sometimes we’re just not ready to accept that a change is happening.
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