Chapter 1: Clash of the Hotheads

Alright Lily. It's time for me to go," said Lana to her adopted sister and best friend, Lily.

Lily gave a dull smile. "Send my love to mum, dad and Jay for me."

"You should have come with me, you know?" Lana said picking up her bag from her seat behind her. "They've all missed you like craaazyy," she empasized the last word while hugging her.

"You know why I can't Lana. Let's just drop it."

"C'mon Andrea, it's been 11 years. You..."

"Lana please? Let's not do this. You should board the plane now," she said cutting her speech.

"So what will you be doing during the Christmas holidays?"

"The usual, home alone, online with followers, you know? Okay, now get going already!" Lily insisted with a chuckle. She knew Lana was feeling reluctant to leave and was just stalling because she felt bad leaving her by herself for the Christmas holidays. 'Knowing her, she'll likely start shedding tears if we keep talking. I'm not ready to change my mind, not yet. I definitely can't go back...at least not now,' she thought.

Lana left to board her plane and Lily made her way out of the airport. Suddenly, a thought crossed her mind. She had forgotten to inform Lana to give mum a call before boarding the plane. She abruptly stopped in her tracks, reaching for her phone in her cute handbag. Her sudden stop was unnoticed by one young man in a black tuxedo, busily using his phone. He was holding a paper bag and was being followed by two huge body guards. Due to the circumstances, he accidentally bumped into Andrea, causing him to drop his paper bag and as well causing her purse to fall out of her hand bag.

"I'm so sorry," apologetic Lily exclaimed and went down to pick up the items immediately, not bothering to look at who it was. Gathering the items, she noticed that the other party didn't even bother to help out. That caused her, giving the benefit of the doubt, to assume he was old or handicapped in a way as he was initially the one at fault for bumping into her. Rising to her feet and meeting the gorgeous face of a handsome well-built mascular young man glaring at her with his intense hazel brown eyes, she was stunned for a second and furious the next. 'He has the nerve to glare? This jerk!' she thought, trying to calm her boiling self.

"Clumsy," Antonio said under his breath with an irritated sigh and looked back at his phone.

"Excuse me?!" She said with a lifted brow. One body guard stretched out his hand to receive the paper bag in Lily's possession. "Did 'you' just call me clumsy?" She asked, emphasizing the word 'you' like that made it outrageous.

"Yes. Out of my way," he said coldly,  emitting a dark terrifying aura that Lily seemed to miss.

She sighed and lost the little frown on her face. "Okay," she said calmly and he moved his attention back to his phone. Unexpectedly, she moved a step back, stretched her hand in front of the young man and dropped the bag at his feet. Antonio finally looked away from his phone and slowly to the items at his feet, angrily. "Oops! Clumsy me. My bad...jerk," She said with a feigned innocent smile. He looked back at her and anyone else with a sense of desire to live would have been on his or her knees begging. Suddenly losing the cute innocent look, she gave a serious one and said, "First of all, you bumped into me so Manners insists that you apologize for that, not the other way. Secondly, since you're at fault, Manners would have taught you to be a gentleman and at least attempt to pick up the stuff too...and not standby like an aged man or a handicap. How pathetic. You're welcome for the free advise by the way, since I'm guessing Manners also forgot to teach you to say thank you. Good bye."

She started to walk away when she felt a firm grip on her arm. She turned to see the other body guard holding her. "Do you have any idea who I am?" the young man asked with a lifted brow, fury and intrigue plastered on his face.

"I believe your question should be do I care who you are and my answer is a sure bloody no. I don't know and couldn't care any less. Regardless, what I do know is that you need to learn some manners. I suggest you get your guard's hand off me because no matter who you are, I doubt you'd like me to create a scene," she said nonchalantly.

Now, he really had his full attention on her. He got closer to her and whispered into her ear. "I hope you keep up this fiesty act because when you see me, like this, again, you'll be very sorry for today." He moved away with a victorious frightening smirk but was secretly stunned when Lily still seemed unmoved.

"Are you done? Because I'm already tired of looking at you. It's getting boring," she said, looking exhausted and bored.

Antonio chuckled and gestured his guard to release her.

'This wild cat of a person must really be dumb to have been unmoved by my threatening aura. Even if she doesn't know who I am, is she really that dumb to get into an argument with someone who at least looks powerful like I do? Is she really oblivious to my aura? Who are you? Pray I don't find you even though I know I surely will. With this at hand, the holidays seem like they won't be so bad after all,' he thought, looking at her retreating back. "Find out who she is," he said to his guards as one gathered the items on the ground.

"Boss, she left her purse behind," the guard picking up the stuff said.

'Well! You really are dumb after all,' he thought with his devilish smirk as he stared at the cheetah-skin designed purse in the guard's hand.

'Oh poor girl! Does she really not know who he is? Regardless of that, was she really oblivious to the aura he emits? She must have a death wish. Huh! When two hotheads meet,' one guard thought, feeling sorry for Lily.

'Silly girl! She's toast!' the other holding the purse thought.

"Such a dumb girl," Antonio said to himself and nodded at the guard, indicating to put the purse amongst his stuff before continuing their journey.

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Lily and Lana's apartment...

That night...

"Oh goodness! How could I have lost my purse?! I remember I put it in my bag before leaving for the airport. Besides, it's nowhere here at home. I've been searching for the past three hours. I sincerely hope I didn't lose it when I met that jerk. What if it really did fall out of my bag back there? Worst, what if he has it?" Lily seemed like she was about to cry.

"Calm down Lily," Lana said over the video call on Lily's laptop. "Maybe you dropped it when you were with me. Go back to the airport tomorrow and ask. You may not get your money back but at least you could get your purse, card and other stuff."

"I really hope so at the very least.  But to be honest, I can't shake off the fact that it could be in the hands of that narcissistic jerk as we speak," she said, losing hope that she would ever get it back. They spoke a little more and ended the call as Lana was about getting home.

Trying to lift her own spirits, Andrea took a shower and got into her cozy huge buggy red Christmas sweater and a pair of white shorts with a pair of white and green ankle socks. She decided to watch some movies but twenty minutes into the first one, she lost interest in the idea and headed for her little studio in her room to work, putting some ideas together for her next YouTube video. After, she decided to check out the online shopping website she created to see how things were going. She had only created it about six months earlier and due to her thousands of followers on social media, she already had many people using it.

'Oh God, I really need to find this purse with my stuff intact. Even if the money is gone, I'll still be so happy,' she thought dejectedly as she opened the site.

"WHAT THE..."