The Eternal Bachelor {WATTYS 2018}

The Party Is Over?

I must have been up for hours sketching Mon Amour. Her beauty is etched into my mind. Her spark even though it seems dulled somehow, is still enough to make something come alive in me. Hope, hope has been ignited. Love at first sight isn't real and yet here I want to know if she felt it too. If she felt the spark like I did. Baise-moi (fuck me) she is everything and I don't even know her.

I woke up to my phone ringing, my head on my sketch pad, and pencil almost embedded into my fingers.

"Bonjour" I say half asleep and a little annoyed I was woken up. That is until the voice of an angel came through the other line.

"Hey Stephan. I was wondering if you'd like to be my tour guide today."

It took all in me to not sound too eager about it. "I think that could be arranged Mon Amour." I say in a cool cocky tone.

"Thanks. I'm staying at the 4 seasons. Just have them call up too Cadence Lefevre and I'll come down." God her voice just gets me. Not only does it pull at my heart but it also makes my dick want to stand at attention.

"Ok Mon Amour. I'll be there in a bit." She doesn't need to know that I'm already half way to the shower.

"À bientôt. Au revoir pour l'instant Stephen." (See you soon. Bye for now Stephen.) Her voice rings through before the line went dead.

I take the fastest shower of my life (even faster than last night when my parents were... never mind.) I throw on a pair of black jeans, cream long sleeve shirt, my boots, and grab my leather jacket before running out the door.

I walk out to my red Ducati and know that I'm picking her up on that. I want to pick her up in my style, plus having her arms wrapped around me is an added bonus. I may not have a plan for the day right now but as long as I'm with her that's all I care about right now.

Throwing my leg over my bike, putting the key in the ignition, I speed off trying not to speed too much. I feel my anxiety kicking in as I start to worry that my mind, albeit has only been less than 10 hours, has created an image of her that is going to be impossible to live up too. Waves of doubt cloud my mind as I pull up to The 4 Seasons. I decided on the way here as the doubt continued to plaque my mind that I'm going to take her to the villa. I need to get to know her and see if I can get this doubt and fear out of my mind.

I walk into the lobby and spot the front desk. Just as I was about to ask them to call for her to come down, I found myself saying "Hi I seem to have lost my key and my girlfriend Cadence Lefevre is asleep right now and I really don't want to wake her because I'm an idiot and lost the key to our room. Could you help me out?"

"Of course sir. I know what it's like to not want to wake up a sleeping loved one. My wife gets so mad when I do and it ruins the rest of the day. So let me just look her up and I'll get a new key made for you."

"Thank you so much. You have no idea how you have saved me from having to hear her calling me an idiot all day."

"Ok sir, looks like I have her in the penthouse suite 4001 and here is your key." He says handing me the key and waving me off.

"Thank you. Have a great day sir." I say already walking to the elevator that is going to take me to Mon Amour.

I get to her room and open the door. I don't hear anything so I walk in further to the bedroom. There she is sleeping on the bed wearing a pair of jeans with a cabernet colored tank top that stopped at her mid drift and a pair of sandals. Her hair is a beautiful straightened brown. I swear my heart stopped beating for a moment as she started to stir.