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 his hair as

at the pier, standing by the river and

cool down

to. By the time he snapped out of it,

at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like

what a heartless

He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but

parents, and teachers-was caught up in a tense

their socks

the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher

everyone did was check answers with their

out of the classroom just

it go?”

thinking about what favor you’ll owe

“Wow, you

the students

were still nervously grading papers.

or not until the results were announced, and

passed before, had come in third in

when she saw his

again to make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging puzzled looks.

tallied, most teachers were

surprises, her class was top of the grade again.

the second-place

surprised by the results.

card, raising an eyebrow

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it

“Go make your mom’s

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

at him, his brow

in, smirking, “Pretty clever,

want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

“Preston, are you out

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

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