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.

the car windows and let the wind mess

eventually stopped at the pier, standing by the river and smoking

cool down

Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out of it, he was

up at her darkened apartment. She must

a

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

the fmals approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was

slackest students pulled up their socks on the two days of

school was as silent as 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 did

out of the classroom just

it go?” she

already thinking about what favor you’ll

“Wow, you did pretty good,

finals were over, and the students had gone

were still nervously

not until the results were announced, and

before, had come

shocked when

checked his paper again to make sure nothing was

scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating Jocelyn.

class was top of

they left the second-place

by

card, raising an

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it fair and

dropped the report card. “Go make

to tell you, Preston sidled up to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made

glared at him, his brow

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

you want her to

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you

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

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