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

the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the heat inside him

cool down

building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out

looked up at her darkened apartment. She must be

what a heartless woman.

gas pedal, speeding down the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely under the

and teachers-was caught up in a tense

up their socks on the

with Jocelyn standing at the podium

exams were over, the first thing everyone did was check

papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston

it go?” she asked

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

you did pretty good, didn’t

finals were over, and the students had gone home for

teachers were still nervously

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

had come in third in the

completely shocked when she saw his

his paper again to make sure

all the scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating

her class was top of the grade

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

by the

report card, raising an eyebrow in

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it fair

dropped the report card. “Go

spreading across his face. “I made

glared at him,

smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

you want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

expression darkened instantly, “Preston, are you out of

got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I

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