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

had bravely accepted that

the rules of the game, her

bent over, covering her face, feeling

phone buzzed in her pocket Taking a deep breath, she pulled it out.

Melvin

Hello?

they left yet? His tone sounded

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 other end.

Chapter 18

I’m hanging up.”

left staring at her phone.

minutes before heading up. Opening

their leftovers.

came

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 to drop

a drag, and leaned back in his chair. “So

a matter of time before…”

to the

playing dumb or genuinely didn’t catch her drift. “What if

we

onto hers, a gaze that should have been

felt incredibly on

always feel like she was

Melvin said, puffing away; the smoke created a haze that obscured his true

of water. She stood opposite him and asked, Then why did you hide?”

to smoke in

at her toes, her eyes misted over, and soon enough, tears started to drop

eyes caught a tear as it fell, and his brow furrowed. He

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

tilt her head back, and he promptly moved

she was straddling

lower, and Jocelyn swallowed hard, feeling

keep up this… arrangement? Jocelyn asked,

setting her skin ablaze wherever he

and how she had no self-control

answer, his heavy breathing and increasing urgency spoke

finally conquered her completely, Jocelyn’s body arched

on the bed like still water, listening to the steady

Melvin beside her, tracing his outline with

times, they said a beauty could captivate a

captured her heart at first

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