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 up his

pier, standing by the river and smoking

cool down

really planning to. By the time

at her darkened apartment. She must be

a

pedal, speeding down the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside,

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

their socks

at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the same at

were over, the first thing everyone did

of the classroom just as Preston

go?” she asked

thinking about what favor

and nodded, “Wow, you did pretty

were over, and the students had gone home for the holidays.

teachers were still

the results

had come

when she saw his

his paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging puzzled

all the scores were tallied, most teachers were

class was top of the

third-place score, they left the second-place class trailing

wasn’t surprised by

report card, raising

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it fair and square.”

“Go make your

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

glared at him, his

smirking, “Pretty

you want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

darkened instantly, “Preston, are you

mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle

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