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.

he rolled down the car windows and let the wind mess up

by the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the

cool down

to. By the time he

at her darkened apartment. She

a heartless woman.

open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely under the vast night sky.

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

socks on the two days

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

thing everyone did

walked out of the classroom just

it go?” she

was full of confidence. “I’m already thinking about what favor you’ll

nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good,

students

teachers were still nervously

results were announced,

come in third in the grade.

completely shocked when she saw

teachers checked his paper again to make sure nothing

scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating

class was top of the grade

Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place class trailing by

surprised by the results.

Preston’s report card, raising an

“No cheating?”

underestimate me. Earned it

dropped the report card. “Go make your mom’s

tell you, Preston sidled up to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made

glared at him, his

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever,

you want her to

“Be my auntie.”

“Preston, are

Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s

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