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.

car windows and let

the pier, standing by the river and smoking another

cool down

Melvin drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to.

She must be sleeping like a baby

a heartless woman.

like this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely under

everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up in

up their socks on the two days of

during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the same

the exams were over, the first thing everyone did was

out of the classroom just

it go?” she asked

already thinking about what

you did pretty good, didn’t you?”

were over, and the students had gone

still

not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn and the other teachers were gobsmacked.

before, had come in third in

when she

paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging puzzled

tallied, most

her class was top of

score, they left the second-place class trailing by dozens of points.

surprised by

looked at Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow in skepticism.-

“No cheating?”

underestimate me. Earned it fair and square.”

dropped the report card. “Go make

his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got

at him, his brow furrowing.

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

do you want her to

“Be my auntie.”

are you

you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle

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