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

bravely accepted

now, it was her who wanted to break the rules of the game, her who

her face,

in her pocket Taking a deep breath, she pulled

Melvin

Hello?

yet? His tone

of his hide-and-seek act tonight, plus her own irritation. Jocelyn’s response was equally frosty. “What’s the much? Can’t I spend some time

was a beef pause on the

Chapter 18

I’m hanging

was left staring at her phone.

another fifteen minutes before heading up. Opening

their leftovers.

up as she came in, not

speaking up, “We’ll probably have a lot more days like today. My folks are really poking into

a cigarette, took a drag, and leaned back in his

a matter of time

the

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

do we explain it?

locked onto hers, a gaze that should have been filled with passion but now

felt

his issue, why did it always feel

the smoke created a haze that obscured

glass of water. She stood opposite him

continued to smoke

surge of old grievances. Looking down at her toes, her eyes misted over, and soon enough, tears started to drop onto the

caught a tear as it fell, and his brow furrowed. He crushed out his cigarette, pulled her into his

away the tears from her eyes, his hands roaming around her waist, his face buried in her neck, and his kisses moving up to her sensitive earlobe. He felt her shiver, then

head back, and he promptly moved his kisses down

it, she was straddling him, facing him.

swallowed hard, feeling a tingle at the

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

her skin ablaze wherever he touched, stirring her

and how she had no self-control

answer, his heavy breathing and increasing urgency spoke

her completely, Jocelyn’s body arched back

to the steady breathing beside her. A chill traced down the corner of her

her head to look at Melvin beside her,

a beauty

her he had captured her heart at first sight.

crush and three years of love, how could