Fall For Me, Mr. Cold CEO!

Naqueenza Raelianna blinks when she sees the commotion in front of the market.

This market is not that far away from campus. She wanted to ask King Raelindo, her twin, to go get her favorite strawberry milk, but his possessive, protective, with a slight siscon syndrome-yes, she's not shy to admit that King is a fool for her and he's got a "sister complex" that's concerning-has a really important class to attend to. So, Naqueenza is forced to go by herself to get it.

However, she's in trouble now.

"Great. What bad luck," she groans as she stomps her feet in defeat. "I forgot today is the usual school brawl schedule around here."

There are certain days when high school students would have school brawls between two rival schools. Naqueenza was too worried about the school assignments that made her go crazy, the many tasks that would surely make her brain boil and smoke. So, she forgot about these things.

The sound of shouting and stones being thrown around in front of her is enough to make her feel a little bit scared, but not to the point of wanting to hide or anything like that. She calmly fishes her phone from her back pocket and intends to call King. It never occurs to her to just go back into the market and find safety.

While she's focusing on her phone, a shadow shows up right in front of her. She frowns and looks up. Her eyes captured a straight, athletic back that would surely make any girl drool over and vie for a way to flirt with the owner of that back.

"What the-?"

She notices that the man standing with his back in front of her is holding a fairly large stone. The stone was caught by the man, which was most likely thrown by one of the high school students during the brawl.

"Were you going to cuss me out?"

His question brings her back to life. She blinks and creases her forehead. She's going defensive all of a sudden. "What do you mean?"

"You were cut off. What were you going to say?"

"Ugh," she grumbles. "Don't go around accusing people like that. I was just really surprised because you were suddenly in my line of sight. Why are you standing in front of me anyway? You can't see the huge space in here?"

The man looks her up and down with a sharp and cold gaze. He chuckled. An exasperated one. Naqueenza rolls her eyes, not amused with the arrogant guy in front of her.

She takes one more glance. The man in front of her is good-looking. He has fair skin and black thick hair. His sharp and cold eyes are jet black, like the color of his hair. His nose is high, and his clothes are trendy enough. A black t-shirt that fits snugly on his athletic body, a levis jacket tied around the waist, and jeans with a slit on the right knee with black sneakers.

But, it doesn't matter how handsome he is. Naqueenza still wants to throw him around the nearest trash can because of his personality.

"You just stood there like an idiot when everyone around here was hiding in the market, and when the stone was flying towards you I had to help you."

She raises her left eyebrow. "Excuse you? Had to?"

"Yep."

Argh! What breed is this? The devil?

The man takes a few steps back, finding a position to throw something. He narrows his eyes, looking for the target, and immediately throws the stone in his hand. Bullet's eye. He manages to hit the back of the students until he falls.

"Done." The flat voice sounds proud of his actions just now.

"For your information, I won't say thank you for your help."

"Oh. I also don't need gratitude from a child like you."

Naqueenza glares. "A child? Who? Me?"

"With you screaming like this, it's enough for me to know that you're still a child."

Naqueenza puffs out her cheeks and clenches her hands into a fist. "I AM NOT A CHILD. I'M TWENTY ALREADY."

The man snorts and gives her another sharp look. "You're only twenty?"

Thinking she'll go crazy any second now, Naqueenza goes into the market. She turns her head one more time and sticks her tongue out at the guy who only responds with a raised eyebrow.

"Such a five-year-old," he sneers again.

"Suck a jerk."

~ ~ ~

Seeing an annoying lecturer two days in a row would make Naqueenza crumble like dust.

Her head had been throbbing in pain since the beginning of class. Now, she's not in the mood to take the next course and decides to go to her regular market. She stands in front of the fridge and stares at the row of fresh drinks there.

"King is annoying. How can he forget that he promised to buy me an ice cream?" she grumbles as she takes one of the beverages that catches her attention.

At that moment, Naqueenza felt something hug her legs very tightly. She blinks and looks down. She sees a small kid with fair skin, an extraordinarily pretty face, chubby cheeks that shine bright red, and hair tied in two piggy tails. Naqueenza smiles and crouches down to her level. She pats the kid's hair. "Who are you here with?"

The little girl looks like she's going to cry now, she can see it from her teary eyes. Seeing that, Naqueenza quickly calms her down and gives the kid her fresh drink.

"No, no. Pretty girls don't cry. Here, you can have my drink. I'll help you find your mom and dad, okay?"

She stands up and grips the child's little hand, she hears an anxious and panicked voice. When she turns her head, she gapes. The man in front of him is very handsome, with fair skin and thick jet-black hair, the same as the color of his beady eyes. The only difference now is, yesterday he was wearing a bad boy's outfit, now he looks formal. A black shirt wrapped in a gray coat and pants of the same color as the shirt. And those shiny black loafers.

"Miu!"

The guy immediately ran towards Naqueenza and kneeled before her. Scratch that. He kneels before the little girl whom he called Miu earlier. He looks relieved to see Miu is fine and hugs her tightly, not wanting to lose her.

"Miu! Why did you wander alone, hm? Daddy was looking for you everywhere. Don't ever do that again, okay? I don't want anything to happen to you. I don't want to lose you like I lost mommy. You get it?"

Miu nods weakly and starts to son. She wraps her tiny arms around her dad's neck and nods again.

"Daddy?"

The doubtful tone made him look up. His eyes meet Naqueenza's and his gaze changes. When he looks at Miu, he looks so soft. As soon as that gaze changes direction to Naqueenza, he turns sharp and cold. Just like yesterday.

"Why?" he asks. He holds Miu up. "Something's wrong?"

"Aren't you...the guy from yesterday?"

"Right." He nods firmly. "Outside of work, I always enjoy my free time. But at work, I'm a CEO. In my family, Miu is the only person who is precious and most important to me. Now, do you understand why I called you a child?"

Naqueenza is quiet. She swallows hard.

"Because twenty is too young in my opinion. Let me introduce myself, I'm Noah Mcsylver. CEO of the McSylver company. I'm thirty and Miu McSylver is my daughter."

Naqueenza Raeliana would never have thought her previously calm life would now turn into a hurricane because of an arrogant human named Noah McSylver who, unfortunately, is very hot and handsome for a father with one kid!

Did someone curse Naqueenza today, so that she met an arrogant guy like Noah McSylver?