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 other woman?”

the moment. But now, even that’s too much, so what’s there to cling to?” She

refused to be labeled a

Melvin’s eyelids, he asked, Got someone else lined

in irritation, “No.”

Done playing?”

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before turning and heading into the bedroom. He didn’t even shut

door slammed shut with

filled with nothing but

what she wanted to hear, but he wouldn’t

they were not even in a

retain, no need to explain, it’s over just

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

make

to the bedroom, yanked his clothes out of the closet, and threw them into

burn

knocked at the door Judging

the door. It was

you have a fight with your boyfriend? I saw him standing down there all alone, looking pretty pitiful.”

Jocelyn froze

He didn’t leave?

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

her mind, making an impact, and she couldn’t just ignore it.

down to look around. But there was no sign

she scoffed at

she doing?

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 eyes half-closed,

Jocelyn felt a sharp pain in her

away and walked past

He pulled her into the nearby fire

you doing? Let go of me!”

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

her head away, defiantly saying, “You’re imagining things.”

here for

“No!”