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.

windows and let the wind mess up his hair as he drove.

stopped at the pier, standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling

cool down

to. By

her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping

what a heartless woman.

floored the gas pedal, speeding down the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside,

fmals approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up

their socks on the

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

the exams were over, the first thing everyone did was check answers with their buddies.

papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston

it go?” she

thinking about what

“Wow, you did pretty

were over, and the students had gone home

still

not until the results were announced,

never passed before, had come

was completely shocked when she saw

to make sure nothing was missed, and

tallied, most

her class was top of the

third-place score, they left the second-place class

surprised by

Preston’s report card, raising an

“No cheating?”

Earned

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

got something to tell you, Preston sidled up to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the

him, his brow furrowing.

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever,

do you want

“Be my auntie.”

“Preston, are you out of your

mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle

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