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.

midnight, he rolled down the car windows and let the wind mess up his hair as he

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

cool down

drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out

at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping

a heartless

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

approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up

up their socks on the two days of

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

exams were over, the first thing everyone did was

papers, walked out of

it go?” she asked

confidence. “I’m already thinking about what favor

and nodded, “Wow, you did

students

were still nervously grading

not until the results were announced, and

passed before, had come in

shocked when

to make sure nothing was

scores were tallied, most teachers were

class was top of the

score, they left the second-place

by the results.

Preston’s report card, raising an

“No cheating?”

underestimate me. Earned it fair

the report card. “Go make your mom’s

face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top

him,

smirking, “Pretty clever,

do you want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you out of your

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

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