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 wind mess up

standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling

cool down

apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out of it, he

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

a heartless woman.

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

parents, and teachers-was caught

the slackest students pulled up their socks on the

Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an

everyone did was check answers with their

clutching test papers, walked out of the classroom just

it go?” she asked

“I’m already thinking about what

and nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good,

and the students had gone home for

still

one knew whose students did well or not until the results were

passed before, had come in third in

when she saw

again to make sure nothing was missed,

scores were tallied, most teachers were

top of the

third-place score, they left the

surprised by

at Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it fair and square.”

the report card. “Go make

face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top five, she’d grant me a

at him, his

smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

are you out of your mind?”

shrugged it off. “I have other uncles, you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I

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