12 AM - It was dark & cold here in Paris. The winter season is nearly approaching yet Elise, Phoebe Halliwell's boss insisted on her to travel here from San Francisco to cover that biggest social event that Elise supposed to participate with. Since Elise was just recovering from a terrible heartbreak from her recent relationship, she sent Phoebe instead.
"Yeah right. Like I'm not recovering from any doomed relationship!" Phoebe snapped. She already experienced a long ridiculous relationship with a demon, Cole and now she had countless dating failures to start off with.
Opening her notebook, Phoebe breezed her way that evening juggling with her new column ideas. She needed to spice up her column if she want to maintain her position as most loved advice columnist in San Francisco Chronicles.
"Ah, maybe a little sex advice might help!" Phoebe thought by herself.
A while later, a tall and very handsome man entered the cafe and walked straight to the counter. "A quick latte, please," he said and suddenly he stopped by right in front of Phoebe.
"Looks like you in need of company, maam,"he joked. Geez, what a lame picking line he had, Phoebe sneered by herself. When she was about to give him a royal brush off, something stopped her.
Heartbreaker alert, Phoebe thought. This guy really is something. Lean and muscular physique making his suits look fabulous, mesmerizing blue eyes that look like a dark winter night and gorgeous caramel hair framing his angelic face.
Fanning herself, Phoebe stood up and muttered, "Uh, hi there. Have we met?" He continued to laugh sexily. "No, I just thought that you might want some company here tonight. It's not cool for beautiful ladies such as you to have dinner here alone.
He sat next to Phoebe after she sat down and introduced himself, "I'm Cameron Parker, you can call me Coop for short.' Phoebe thought, this guy is really charming!
He ordered a champagne for both of them and start off by discussing their origin and from where they are from. "I'm from San Francisco, you must have heard 'Bay Mirror'," Phoebe said while sipping her drink. The way he looked at her made her blood chilled, Shit why am I excited of of a sudden?
This Coop was charming with a capital C - exotic smile, dreamy eyes, sexy voice and don't need to talk about his amazing body, Phoebe thought this guy could really fit for all men's fitness magazine covers out there.
"Oops, it's very late now. I need to get home so see ya around!" Phoebe looked at her watch and waved at the waiter for the bill but Coop stopped her, "Allowed me, maam."
He took out his platinum credit card from his pocket and put it on the table before saying, "Let me walk you home. This city can be very wicked and dangerous at night."
Yeah, being macho don't really strike as much to me, Phoebe told herself. But he was right, she can't go home taking the dim pathway to her hotel alone tonight. Phoebe heard a car door lock flicked off from afar and noticed that it was Coop , locking his elegant Ferrari before heading back towards her. "Okay now, all set?"
They spent the whole journey talking about each other. Coop joked, "My life is too tedious to start off with." Phoebe nudged at him, "Come on, what's so tedious about being a billionaire bachelor? I'm sure you got all the girls after you."
"Yeah but that isn't the fun part. I have to make decisions all day so I have to choose either being honest or manipulative. Guest which I chose?"
Phoebe sneered, "Oh please you can always get away with your good looks & money. Who really cares these days?"
Coop looked forward, "Look, we already here. Seems a little timeless isn't it?"
"Maybe, but who knows maybe you can let me treat you dinner tomorrow and...", Phoebe paused, thinking.
"And...what?" Coop asked.
Phoebe explained, "Actually I'm in process of writing a romance novel and I need inspiration so maybe you can help me with that tomorrow?"
He just smiled, "You looking at the wrong guy for creative inspiration. I might come off as your worst companion tomorrow night."
"Let just see how you fare tomorrow," Phoebe teased. "Good night then," she waved at him before continued, "and thank you, for a very nice evening."
Phoebe went straight ahead into the hotel, rushed to her room and opened the window, peering to catch a sight of Coop. Awesome backside, she thought nastily.
Recalling their conversation that evening, Phoebe learned that Coop was also from San Francisco, weird how they never got a chance to bump into each other. He was here for a long business trip, 4 weeks already and just broke up with his fiancee.
"Hmm...intriguing," Phoebe thought. People around her will consider Coop off-limits, but Phoebe thought it was a fair game.