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.

car windows and let the

the pier, standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the heat inside him

cool down

really planning to. By

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

what a heartless

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

the fmals approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up in a tense atmosphere.

slackest students pulled up their socks on

was as silent 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 did was check

papers, walked out of the classroom just as

it go?”

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

you did pretty good,

students had gone home for the

were still nervously

or not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn and the other teachers were

before, had come in third in the

completely shocked when

to make sure

the scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating Jocelyn.

was top of the

to Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place

wasn’t surprised by the results.

at Preston’s report card, raising

“No cheating?”

Earned it

card. “Go make your mom’s

to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with

glared at him, his brow

smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

are you out

got a godbrother.

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