The Unwilling CEO’s Love Game

Chapter 18

After dinner. Daisy helped tidy up a bit and glanced at the closed bedroom door, commenting, “Usually, the room door is left open for ventilation. It’s not good if the air can’t circulate.”

Jocelyn, afraid that Daisy was going to open the door for her, quickly went over and did it herself. “Yeah, I just closed it while cooking. Didn’t want the cooking smell to get in”

Her eyes swept the room and caught sight of Melvin, frozen in place by her dressing table, looking like a deer caught in

the headlights

Just by watching his Adam’s apple bobbing nervously, she could tell he was on pins and needles

She found it both amusing and a bit heartbreaking

It was amusing seeing him trying to make himself invisible in the corner, but it was heartbreaking realizing how scared he was of their relationship coming to light.

Their so-called relationship only applied to the two of them; to everyone else, it was still under the radar.

Jocelyn saw her parents out of the building and watched them leave. Turning back to Preston, she said, “I don’t have your address so you’ll need to hail a cab yourself. I’ll cover the fare.

Preston has grown up now, right in the thick of adolescence and all the lovey-dovey stuff that goes with it

Add to that the internet age we’re in, kids grow up fast these days, so he was pretty clued up about the birds and the

bees

“Aren’t you bothered by how my uncle treats you? Preston was only now getting the picture of how little respect his

uncle had for Jocelyn.

Jocelyn smiled helplessly. “We agreed from the start.

“Is this what you call dating? Preston asked, cutting to the heart of the matter.

Jocelyn looked down, pressing her lips together, feeling a tightness in her chest.

Preston’s cab arrived. He looked at Jocelyn and sighed softly. “I’m off then.”

Mhm. Drop a message when you get home, or call your uncle.”

After Preston left, Jocelyn didn’t rush upstairs. Instead, she took a seat on a bench.

Flashes of her and Melvin together ran through her mind, crystal clear.

Falling in love is a two-way street, but what she had with Melvin was a case of a one-sided crush.

He didn’t need affection; he made that clear right from the start

she had bravely

to break the rules of the game, her who wasn’t

bent over, covering her face, feeling utterly

her pocket Taking a deep breath, she

Melvin calling.

Hello?

His tone sounded harsh.

because of his hide-and-seek act tonight, plus her own irritation. Jocelyn’s response was equally frosty.

was a beef pause on

Chapter 18

I’m

left staring at her

another fifteen minutes before heading up. Opening the

their leftovers.

as she came in, not a

waited until he finished his last bite before speaking up, “We’ll probably have a lot more days like today. My folks are really poking into my personal life, likely

and leaned back in his

a matter of time before…”

to the

playing dumb or genuinely didn’t catch her drift. “What if they run into you here

do we explain

a gaze that should have

least, Jocelyn felt incredibly

was his issue, why did it always

smoke created a haze that obscured his

up, and poured herself a glass of

continued to smoke in

surge of old grievances. Looking down at her toes, her eyes misted over, and

He crushed out

her neck, and his kisses moving up to her sensitive earlobe. He felt her shiver, then his actions

head back, and he promptly moved his kisses down her throat.

she was straddling him,

buried lower, and Jocelyn swallowed hard, feeling a tingle

going to keep up this… arrangement? Jocelyn asked, her voice

skin ablaze wherever he touched,

how easily he overpowered her and how she had no self-control

heavy breathing and increasing urgency

completely, Jocelyn’s body arched back

listening to the steady

beside her,

times, they said a beauty could captivate a

her he had captured her heart

of crush and three years of love, how could she let him go?