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.

let the wind mess up

at the pier, standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling

cool down

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

She must be sleeping

a heartless

the gas 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.

fmals approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up in a tense atmosphere.

socks on the two days

Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the same at the back of

exams were over, the first thing everyone

of the classroom just as Preston

it go?” she

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

you did pretty good,

the students had gone home for the holidays.

were still

the results were announced,

before, had come in third in

shocked when she

other teachers checked his paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging puzzled looks.

scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating Jocelyn.

surprises, her class was top of

Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place

wasn’t surprised by the

Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow in

“No cheating?”

me. Earned it

dropped the report card. “Go make

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

glared at him,

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever,

do you want her to

“Be my auntie.”

expression darkened instantly, “Preston, are you out

a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I

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