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

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

cool down

really planning to. By the time he snapped out of it, he was

at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like

a

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

parents, and teachers-was

up their socks on the

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

everyone did was check answers with

clutching test papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston

it go?”

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

nodded, “Wow, you did pretty

over, and the students

teachers were still nervously grading papers.

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

before, had come in third in the

was completely shocked when she saw his score.

teachers checked his paper again to make sure nothing was

were tallied, most teachers were congratulating

class was top

score, they left the second-place class trailing by dozens

by

report card, raising

“No cheating?”

me. Earned it

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

I got something to tell 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, she’d grant me

glared at him, his brow furrowing.

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty

want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

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

Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle

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