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?

"McSylver Company?"

Naqueenza nods lazily. She doesn't get the company name wrong, did she? As she recalled, the annoyingly arrogant person named Noah McSylver who served as CEO as well as a widower with one child mentioned that name.

"Do you know?" asks Naqueenza again, devouring her favorite chocolate pudding.

"I want to ask you first."

She raises one eyebrow.

"Where have you been living all this time? A Cave?"

Naqueenza blinks. "Huh?"

"That you don't even know about that well-known company." King Raeliando chuckles amusedly and points at his twin sister using the fork he's holding to eat fruits. "If I remember correctly, our father's company also cooperates with that company."

"Working with Noah McSylver?"

King furrows his eyebrows. "You know Noah?"

"You know him?"

King nods. "I've met him before. Pretty often, actually. Noah also often came here several times because dad invited him to eat together. It's just, every time he came, you're always not at home."

Oh, the king of hell comes here often? He also knows my dad and King. That sucks.

"He's a chameleon, bro."

"What do you mean?"

Naqueenza puffs out her cheeks, annoyed because she remembered yesterday's incident at the market.

But, wait.

"That means, you also know that Noah is a single father with one child?"

She doesn't know if it's just Naqueenza's feelings or not, but King's face right now looks weird. Between shock and confusion.

"Single father? One child?"

Naqueenza nods. "His kid is very pretty. Cute. Adorable. Her name is Miu. Miu McSylver."

King puts down his fork and crossed his arms. He leans back, tilts his head, and looks at his little sister as if she were an alien who just landed on earth to kidnap humans.

"Queen, where did you get the information about Miu?"

"I met Miu and his dad, who came out of hell yesterday."

"That's all?"

Naqueenza nods.

"And Noah said that Miu was his daughter?"

"Yep. He also told Miu not to wander off again because he doesn't want to lose Miu like he lost his wife."

King takes a deep breath and massages the bridge of his nose. "Queen, this is a secret. You can't tell this to anyone. That Noah and Miu-"

"Good evening, King."

The flat tone of greeting made King and Naqueenza turn their heads. Both of them froze, but King normalized his posture first. He smiles and gets up from the chair, and so does Naqueenza who wakes up from her shock. King nods and walks over to the person who just greeted him and shakes hands with him.

Noah McSylver.

"Good evening, Noah." King opens his palm towards Naqueenza. "Let me introduce you, she's my twin sister. Naqueenza Raelianna. Queen, this is Noah McSylver."

Naqueenza is confused about how to react now. She's like a thief who was caught stealing underwear on the clothesline at the moment. Naqueenza never thought that the person she was discussing with her brother would appear right in front of her as if that person knew that he was being talked about.

"Naqueenza Raelianna." The girl nods without any intention of coming closer and shakes hands with Noah.

Noah nods back. "Noah McSylver."

Naqueenza's eyebrows rose one. He acts as if he was meeting her for the first time. His acting is great.

"Noah is going to have dinner with us today because we get a pretty big profit from working together at the company."

King and Naqueenza turn their heads and the figure of their father appears not far from where the two of them along with Noah are gathering. The handsome man who is already half a century old pats Noah on the shoulder and laughs.

"Wow, that means it's a celebration, right?" King asked excitedly.

"Right." The man then looks at Naqueenza. "Queen, you will be coming to dinner with us, right? As I recall, you hardly ever go to dinner with me and Noah whenever Noah comes here."

"Mm," Naqueenza smiles awkwardly and rubs the back of her neck. "I don't think so, Dad. Sorry. I have to go out to look for some stuff for a class."

"Alone?"

Uh-oh. Her dad's tone is starting to sound dangerous!

"With Mamoru."

Hearing that, Noah's eyebrows shot up. Mamoru? Japanese name?

"Ah, Mamoru." Naqueenza's father nods his head a few times and rubs his chin. "I haven't seen Mamoru in a long time. Bring him here when you get home later, okay?"

"Okay." Naqueenza nods obediently. She then says goodbye and rushes to the second floor to her room to get ready.

When she passes Noah, the girl glances at him. The sneering look. Noah, who realizes this, just keeps quiet and gazes back at her. However, his lips curled into a smile. A faint smile, almost a mocking smile.

"Such a five-year-old," Noah whispers in a mocking tone, just as Naqueenza passed him.

Hearing that, Naqueenza snorts.

"Such a jerk."

###

"There's an annoying single father downstairs?"

Mamoru's question makes Naqueenza nods lazily and checks the contents of her sling bag. Wallet, phone, a small notebook, candy, and biscuits. Mamoru himself is sitting at the window of Naqueenza's room. Mamoru and Naqueenza's rooms are next to each other. They build a small bridge so the other can go into the next room easily. Even though she believes in Mamoru, Naqueenza remains wary of her friend. A guy is still a guy, even though Mamoru is her best friend.

"Yep."

"And?"

"And, what?" Naqueenza looks at Mamoru who crosses his arms.

"Because he's annoying, you want to run away?"

"Ugh." Naqueenza glares. "I want to buy things related to a class's needs, okay?"

"Liar." Mamoru jumps from the window of Naqueenza's room and entered the girl's room. Earlier, Naqueenza had shouted for Mamoru through her window, and the guy who has a Japanese-Indonesian descent came straight away. "I'm in the same class. Did the class has something for the students to buy for their needs? I don't recall anything at all."

"One class. not one major." Naqueenza stuck out her tongue. "My other class asked us to buy some things."

"Hmm."

"I'm serious!"

"Well, when did I say you were lying?"

"Just now! You called me a liar earlier!" Naqueenza shouts passionately.

"That's when you said that you wanted to look for class needs outside, not when you said that your other class in your major told you to buy some things."

"Same thing, ugh!" Naqueenza smacks Mamoru. However, instead of being annoyed, Mamoru laughs and ruffles Naqueenza's hair.

"Well, do you want to use the normal way or the abnormal way when we are going to go?"

"Huh?"

"The normal way is to go downstairs and say goodbye to your family, the abnormal way is to jump down from the balcony in front of you." Mamoru smirks.

"Crazy," Naqueenza grumbles. "The normal way! Hurry up, dad also said that he hasn't seen you for a while." The girl opens the bedroom door and makes sure Mamoru is following her.

Downstairs, Naqueenza could hear the conversation between her father, King, and Noah. The dinner has not started yet because her mother is still busy preparing everything in the kitchen along with the housekeepers. Naqueenza stops in the living room with Mamoru following her.

"Dad," called Naqueenza. The girl smiles and accidentally glances at Noah. The damn guy seems quiet but his sharp eyes glance at her. He has a death wish! "I and Mamoru will go out first."

"Mamoru! You're infiltrating my sister's room again!" cries King. He glares at Mamoru and points at the guy accusingly.

"Queen's room is mine too, King."

"You jerk!"

Mamoru laughs and nods politely toward the father of the twins. "Uncle, long time no see. How are you?"

"Good." The twins' father nods and smiles. "Please, take care of Queen, okay? Don't play outside for too long."

"Dad, I want to look for a class needs, not to play." Naqueenza takes a deep breath and is slightly surprised when Mamoru puts his arm around her shoulders.

"Calm down, Uncle. Queen will be safe and protected when she's with me. Even mosquitoes will run away if they see Queen with me."

"Cheesy!" exclaims Naqueenza and King at the same time. Mamoru just laughs.

"How about you guys have dinner before you leave?"

The question made everyone stare at Noah. Noah smiles and crosses his right leg over his left, then crosses his arms. That smile that resembles an annoying grin makes Naqueenza indignant and desperately tries to keep herself from throwing her shoes at that handsome face.

"Have dinner with us and I'll drop you two off. Fortunately, I also want to find something for Miu."

"Wow, what a great idea!" Naqueenza's father nods in agreement. "Queen, you and Mamoru are going to have dinner first with us, okay? After that, let Noah come with you."

Naqueenza wants to protest but is held back by Mamoru. The guy smiles and approaches Noah who immediately stands up.

"Hi. My name is Mamoru. Mamoru Kinomoto."

Noah notices Mamoru's outstretched hand. The guy then smirks and shook Mamoru's hand tightly and firmly until he grimaces slightly.

"Noah McSylver. Nice to meet you, Mamoru."

Mamoru nods cheerfully. "Nice to meet you... Old Man!"

Noah blinks, as did King and his father. Naqueenza? The girl immediately bursts into laughter and hit her knee repeatedly. She looks at Noah who looked very annoyed with Mamoru. Then, Noah looks up at her with the same annoyed and irritated look.

"Hello, Old Man Noah."

Noah's jaw tightened. He forces a smile.

"Hello, brat."

Naqueenza laughs even more and shakes her head. She is then forced to join the dinner together with Noah, who unluckily sits right next to her.

What must Naqueenza do to kick Noah out of her house? Should Naqueenza put poison in that jerk's food?

Naqueenza takes a deep breath.

The girl looks at the diaries one by one in front of her. Even though she is already in college, Naqueenza still likes to write a diary. Unfortunately, the diary in her house is filled with all her scribbles. Whether it's poetry, quotes, or other words of wisdom. Sometimes, Naqueenza also writes her vents there. That's why, Naqueenza wants to buy a new diary.

"Hello."

While she's busy looking at the row of cute diaries in front of her, Naqueenza hears a greeting. She turns and raised an eyebrow when she sees two guys smiling seductively at her. The impudent stares that are given by the two of them could make Naqueenza's blood boil. She wants so badly to kick their 'things' to make them both impotent or something.

What shameless bastards they are!

"Are you alone?" asks one of the guys. A guy with long hair tied up and wearing a red shirt. "How about you coming with the two of us?"

Naqueenza snorts. "I'm not alone."

The two guys look at each other and laugh.

"I'm not alone," says Naqueenza again. The girl crosses her arms and looks disdainfully at the two guys. "I brought my guard dog."

"Watchdog?" repeats the guy in blue. He and his friend look at each other again and laugh loudly. "Ah, you must be joking, you beautiful girl-"

At that moment, the two guys froze. They gulp as they stare at Naqueenza. Naqueenza herself frowns. She doesn't know why the two guys in front of her, who had just been openly teasing her, are now silent and looked scared. Could it be just because she said she brought a guard dog, they got scared? She's just lying.

"Th-then, we will go first." The guy in red grimaces and clears his throat. "Give our regards to your guard dog."

When the two guys run, Naqueenza snorts. The girl turns around to look for Mamoru and the arrogant Noah when Noah is standing right in front of her. Naqueenza raises an eyebrow and crosses her arms again.

"Why are you there?"

"Looking for a notebook for office use."

"Notebooks?"

Noah cleared his throat. "Notes."

"Are you the one who made the jerks from before run away?"

"What do you mean?"

Naqueenza clicks her tongue. "You're standing behind me and doing something that makes those two damn guys, who were teasing me, run away like that?"

Noah shrugs nonchalantly. "I just stood there and watched them. That's all."

Does this guy not realize that the look in his eyes is as scary as Lucifer's? It's not like I've met Lucifer too, I guess.

"Isn't that a guard dog's job?"

Naqueenza blinks. "Huh?"

"Watchdog." Noah grinned. "Guard dogs have to look after their masters."

In that instant, Naqueenza could feel her face heating up rapidly. She is sure that by now, the blush from embarrassment had already spread to her face.

"Wh-who told you to stand behind me when I said that!"

"So it's my fault?"

Ugh! This arrogant one!

"That's not what I meant!"

"Well," Noah shrugged again nonchalantly. "For your information, I have been around you all this time. You're the one who's not aware."

Again, Naqueenza blinks. "So, you did want to help me?"

Before Noah leaves Naqueenza, the guy turns and smiles lopsidedly.

"Who knows?"

###

"Why should I come to your house?"

The question with a grumbling tone makes Noah stare at Naqueenza through the rearview mirror. The girl is sitting in the back seat, while her friend, whom Noah knew named Mamoru, sits beside him.

"From the mall, my house is closer than yours. I'm just going home for a while, to give Miu's gift."

"I can go home alone with Mamoru."

Noah glances at Mamoru who seems quiet. However, his lips curved into a smile, even though his hands are busy struggling with the phone. Noah knew Mamoru is listening to his conversation with Naqueenza, but choose not to interfere.

"Boys are a pack of wolves."

Mamoru almost laughs when he heard Noah's words. Luckily, he can control his laugh well.

"You're a boy too, Noah. Or maybe you are a girl? And your name is Nia? Is that it?"

Noah snorts and rolls his eyes lazily. "I'm not a boy. I'm a man."

Naqueenza sneers.

"You're my responsibility, Queen. Your father handed you over to me." Noah turns off the engine and unbuckled his seatbelt. "I also said that I would take you and your friend to the mall. So, I should take the two of you home as well."

"Wow, thank you very much for your attention, Noah," says Mamoru. He finally speaks. He also unbuckled his seat belt. "That means, I can ask to eat and drink first at your house before being sent home, right, bro?"

Noah gives Mamoru a murderous look. "Don't push it."

Mamoru chuckles and shrugs. "Let's go out first, okay? You also said that his daughter was very cute. It's good that we save some transport fair because the devil will take us home."

"I heard that."

"I know," Mamoru chimes. "I meant to."

Noah snorts again and continues on his way to the house. The guy glances over his shoulder and realizes that Naqueenza and Mamoru are following him from behind.

At the house, Noah puts his shopping bag on the sofa but still hugs the big white, brown, and black stuffed cat. He calls out to Miu and smiles gently when the adorable little chubby-cheeked girl runs towards him. In her place, Naqueenza is staring at the scene with a sudden irritated heart.

"What a chameleon," she comments scathingly.

"It's because she's his daughter. Do you want him to be cold and mean with his daughter as he treats you?" Mamoru tilts his head and smiles mischievously. "Don't tell me you're jealous?"

"Even in my nightmares, I will never be jealous," Naqueenza rolls her eyes.

It is then, Naqueenza and Miu's gazes met. Naqueenza smiles so sweetly that Mamoru almost laughs when he sees her.

"Looks like you are a chameleon yourself."

"Shut up, Mamoru!" Naqueenza grumbles under her breath while pinching her best friend's waist.

"You're the aunty from yesterday, right?" Miu asks in a childlike voice. The voice sounds adorable.

Naqueenza approaches Miu and kneels before the little girl. She gently strokes Miu's hair which is left loose today and lightly pinched her plump cheeks. "Yes. Hello, Miu. My name is Queen."

Miu tilts her head and looks at Naqueenza with a confused look. "Coint?"

Now, Mamoru couldn't hold back his laughter anymore. He bents down and hit his thigh, as well as Noah who immediately look away and cleared his throat to hide his laughter.

"Mm," Naqueenza smiles awkwardly. "Just call me Anna. Not Auntie, but Anna."

Miu nods in satisfaction. "Anna!"

"Hello, Miu," said Mamoru. The guy kneels beside Naqueenza. "My name is Mamoru. Miu's name and mine are both Japanese names, right?"

Miu nods enthusiastically. "Japan. Miu's mom is Japanese! Her name is Shioli!"

Naqueenza's brow furrowed. Shioli?

"Shiori," Noah corrected. His voice sounds distant, causing Naqueenza to subconsciously stares at him. "Her mother's name is Shiori. Shiori McSylver."

Mamoru watches Noah. He could tell there is something that makes Noah the way he is. Maybe because they're talking about Miu's mother named Shiori. Judging from the previous story, Noah is a single father. That means the discussion about Shiori made Noah remember his bitter memories of Shiori's death.

"Um, Noah."

Noah, who was lost in thought, immediately sobers up when he heard his name being called. He looks at Mamoru who just called out to him. One eyebrow raised. "Noah?" he repeats.

"Your name is Noah, right?"

"You called me 'old man' earlier. After that, you deliberately mocked me by calling me 'brother'. Now, you just call me by name?"

Mamoru shrugs. "It's good to call names. So, can Queen and I go home now? Oh, and you don't have to drive us. If you do that, Miu will be left alone."

When Mamoru grabs Naqueenza's wrist, preparing to take his best friend home, the guy felt a strong grip on his wrist. When he turns his head, he sees that Noah had grabbed his hand which he used to hold Naqueenza's wrist.

"I'll drive you two."

"Why?"

"Because it's late."

Mamoru smiles defiantly. "Because it's late or because you don't want me and Naqueenza alone, Noah?"

Noah clenches his jaw.

Does this guy have the will to die at his hands?! Does he have a death wish or something?!