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.

windows and let the wind mess up his hair

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

cool down

planning to. By

darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like

a heartless woman.

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

and teachers-was caught up in a tense atmosphere.

pulled up their socks

during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium

exams were over, the first thing everyone

of

it go?”

“I’m already thinking about

you did pretty

and the students had gone

still nervously grading papers.

students did well or not until the results were announced, and

never passed before, had come in third

completely shocked when

paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and they

scores were tallied, most

surprises, her class was top

Preston’s third-place score, they left the

surprised by

looked at Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow in

“No cheating?”

Earned

“Go make

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

glared at him, his brow

smirking, “Pretty clever,

you want her

“Be my auntie.”

are you out

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

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