Chapter 32

At right, Melvin stood on the balcony puffing on a cigarette, gazing at the winding rivers, and the image of Jocelyn’s panic and evasion the moment she laid eyes on him popped into his mind.

Talk about tough she never backed down from him.

She’d block him on Facebook and his calls in a heartbeat, and when they met, she’d act like she didn’t even know him.

All the love he’d given over the past three years seemed to have gone with the breeze

Women are just unreasonable creatures

He’d explained himself, and she was still making a fuss about breaking up.

Totally irrational.

Thinking he’d go sweet talk her back? As if! Not in a million years.

He had given her a chance already It was her call to throw it away.

Melvin finished his smoke and turned back to his room.

Lying in bed, sleep just wouldn’t come

Every time he closed his eyes, images of Jocelyn’s seductive face and their steamy moments together flooded his

mind

Guys have their weaknesses, often with a hint of eroticism, and he was no exception and was just a regular dude.

Missing a woman, that’s just human nature.

Unable to sleep, he dived into the bathroom for a cold shower, thinking it might extinguish the fire inside him, but the

more he washed, the hotter he burned.

Ever since he and Jocelyn got together, he hadn’t taken matters into his own hands.

It was like scratching an itch, never quite as satisfying as when someone else would do it.

After spending over thirty minutes in the bathroom, Melvin got dressed, grabbed his car keys, and headed out.

rolled down the car windows and let the wind mess

river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the heat

cool down

drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out of it, he was already

looked up at her darkened apartment. She

what a heartless

road. He felt just like this city shiny on the

approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was

up their socks on

as silent as the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out,

first thing everyone did was

test papers, walked out of

it go?” she

confidence. “I’m already thinking about what favor you’ll owe

nodded, “Wow, you did

and the students

were still

students did well or not until the results were announced, and

never passed before, had come in third in

when

paper again to make sure nothing was missed,

tallied, most teachers were congratulating Jocelyn.

surprises, her class was top of the grade

the second-place class trailing by dozens

surprised by the

Preston’s report card, raising

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it fair and square.”

card. “Go make

a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top five, she’d grant

at him, his brow

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

do you want

“Be my auntie.”

expression darkened instantly, “Preston, are you out of

off. “I have other uncles, you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother.

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