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.

and let the

standing by the river and

cool down

without really planning to. By the time he

at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a baby

what a heartless

gas pedal, speeding down the open road. He felt just like this city

everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was

students pulled up their socks on the two days of

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

the first thing everyone

test papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston approached.

go?” she

full of confidence. “I’m already thinking about what

“Wow, you did pretty good, didn’t

two-day finals were over, and the students

were still

the results

never passed before, had come in

was completely shocked when she

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

all the scores were tallied,

class was top of the grade again.

to Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place class trailing by dozens of points.

by the

report card, raising

“No cheating?”

Earned it

dropped the report card. “Go make

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

at him, his

in, smirking,

do you want her

“Be my auntie.”

are you out of your

godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that

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