(A/N) Before I Begin

This is the story of desperation, where a man named Raphael Laurent meets a young woman who is more than eager to start working for him at City Of Love. But this story doesn't start off with the girl staying and helping Raphael solve the mystery of the essence of love.

This is the story where the young woman is rejected from the job and returns to the states. This is the story of Raphael and his personal mission to find the essence himself.

But he isn't the only one on the hunt. Another equally ambitious man, Vincent Karm, is just dying to get his hands on the essence and will do just about anything to find it.

But what if the two of them end up finding each other?