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 wind

standing by the river and smoking another two

cool down

planning to.

up at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like

what a

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.

teachers-was caught up in

socks on the two days of

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

the exams were over, the first thing everyone

of the classroom just as Preston approached.

go?”

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

“Wow, you did pretty good,

and the students

still nervously

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

come

when she saw his score.

sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging puzzled

were tallied, most

top

to Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place class trailing by dozens

surprised by the results.

Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow

“No cheating?”

underestimate me. Earned it fair and square.”

dropped the report card. “Go

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

glared at him, his

in, smirking, “Pretty

you want her

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you out of your mind?”

godbrother. He’s my uncle too.

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