The Unwilling CEO’s Love Game

Chapter 13

“What’s up? Got a bee in your bonnet? Melvin sidled up to her, whispering sweet nothings, the air between them thick with ambiguity.

Jocelyn turned her head and forcefully pried his hand away, putting some distance between them.

She saw a flicker of annoyance in his eyes and remembered the way he looked at her after he put that woman in the car the other day. It hurt like hell.

Melvin stepped back, leaning against the wall, his expression cooling off

“What do you mean?” he asked

Jocelyn stared him down, only now realizing how little she meant to him

He didn’t even bother to offer an explanation

She didn’t want to go all harpy on him, interrogating who that woman was, or who he had been with during those two days and a night.

She pointed at the bag by the door, “Did my dad give that to you?”

“Yeah, Melvin glanced at it nonchalantly.

So, why’d you bring it here?”

“Well, I’m here, aren’t 1? Where else should I have taken it?

“You know damn well that’s my dad returning a favor. Even if you think it’s beneath you and don’t want it, you shouldn’t flaunt it in my face!” Jocelyn’s temper flared up.

Melvin frowned. So where should I have dumped it?

“Do you despise these things that much? Are they just not worthy of your precious attention, so you dump them on me? Jocelyn’s tone was sharp, she wanted to keep her cool, but she just couldn’t.

“You’re way off base. Melvin reached for her hand, “Come on…”

Jocelyn shook him off, “I don’t even know what my place means to you. Sure, I like you, but I’m not bottomless. Like this stuff, if you don’t value it, toss it. Don’t give it to me or flaunt it. It just makes us look like a joke!

“What are you trying to say? Melvin’s face darkened too.

Jocelyn took a deep breath, “I won’t be the other woman.

With one woman out in the open, one in the shadows, hoping to have it all?

Dream on!

scowled. The

widen the gap between them. “I thought we weren’t planning on marriage, just living day by day, in the moment. But now, even that’s

refused to be labeled a homewrecker, a

flicker from Melvin’s eyelids, he asked,

in irritation, “No.”

Done playing?”

Chapter 1

at her for a long while before turning and heading into the bedroom. He didn’t even shut

door slammed shut

filled with nothing

cared about, what she wanted to hear, but

because they were not even in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.

to retain, no need to explain,

limits, and now that they’d been crossed, no matter how painful or

she’d make

the closet, and threw them into his suitcase,

burn

when someone knocked at the door Judging by the rhythm, it couldn’t be

herself and answered the door. It was Rose, her neighbor from downstairs.

saw

Jocelyn froze

He didn’t leave?

packed his things, sitting on the bed and watching the time. It had been two hours

in her mind, making an impact, and she couldn’t just

couldn’t sit still any longer and hurried down to look around. But there was no sign of

she scoffed

was she doing?

how could he have nowhere to go? Why would he linger downstairs? He wasn’t that attached Mocking her own foolishness,

Melvin stood there, putting out his cigarette in the nearby trash can, his

felt a sharp pain in

past him, ignoring him

He pulled her into the nearby fire escape, pinning her

of me!” Jocelyn was furious,

in his space, “If can’t bear to see me go, why didn’t you stop me?” he murmured, a low growl in his

her head away, defiantly saying, “You’re

here for

“No!”