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

and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling

cool down

a.m., Melvin drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the

up at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like

what a heartless

He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely

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

slackest students pulled up their socks on the

with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an

first thing everyone

of the

go?”

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

you did pretty good,

students had gone

teachers were still nervously

results

come in third in

was completely shocked when

teachers checked his paper again to make sure nothing was

the scores were tallied, most

was top of the grade

score, they left the second-place

by the results.

at Preston’s report card, raising an

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it fair

report card. “Go make your mom’s day.”

I 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

him,

leaned in, smirking,

you want

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you out of your mind?”

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

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