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

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

cool down

drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped

her darkened apartment. She must

a heartless woman.

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

teachers-was caught up in a tense atmosphere.

their socks on the two days

as silent as the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing

the first thing everyone

papers, walked out of the

go?” she

thinking about what favor you’ll owe me.”

you did

students had

were still

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

had come in third

shocked when she saw

teachers checked his paper again to make sure nothing was

tallied, most teachers

surprises, her class was top of the grade

the second-place class trailing

wasn’t surprised by

at Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow in skepticism.-

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned

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

sidled up to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into

at him, his brow

smirking, “Pretty clever,

want

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are

got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing

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