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.

down the car windows and let the wind mess up his hair as

eventually stopped at the pier, standing by the river and

cool down

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

darkened apartment. She

what a heartless

this city shiny on

teachers-was caught up

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 room.

the exams were over, the first thing everyone did was check

clutching test papers, walked out of the classroom just as

go?”

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

“Wow, you did pretty good, didn’t you?”

over, and the students had gone home

still

one knew whose students did well or not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn and the other teachers

come in third in the grade.

shocked when she saw his

other teachers checked his paper again to make sure nothing was missed,

tallied, most teachers

class was top of the

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

surprised by the

at Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow

“No cheating?”

me. Earned

card. “Go make

spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if

at him, his

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty

want her to

“Be my auntie.”

darkened instantly, “Preston, 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 think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle is a

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