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

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

over, covering her face,

phone buzzed in her pocket Taking a deep breath,

Melvin calling.

Hello?

they left yet? His tone sounded

plus her own irritation. Jocelyn’s response was equally

a beef pause on

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I’m hanging up.”

was left staring

downstairs for another fifteen minutes before heading up. Opening the door,

their leftovers.

up as she came in, not a word

“We’ll probably have a lot more days like today. My folks are really poking into my personal life, likely to

lit a cigarette, took a drag, and leaned back in his chair. “So what?”

matter of time before…”

the point

wasn’t sure if he was playing dumb or genuinely didn’t catch her

do we explain it?

that should have

least, Jocelyn felt incredibly

his issue, why did it always feel like she was the one with the

the smoke created a haze that obscured his true

glass of water. She stood opposite him and asked, Then why did you

to smoke

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

fell, and his brow furrowed. He crushed out

around her waist, his face buried in her neck, and his kisses moving up to her sensitive earlobe. He felt her shiver, then his actions

help but tilt her head back, and he promptly moved his

knew it, she was straddling him, facing him.

face buried lower, and Jocelyn swallowed hard, feeling a tingle at

long are we going to keep up this… arrangement?

her skin ablaze wherever he touched, stirring her

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

heavy breathing and

body arched back uncontrollably, losing herself to his

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

her head to look at Melvin beside her, tracing his outline with

ancient times, they said a

captured her

of crush and three years of love, how could