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

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

cool down

to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out of it, he was

looked up at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like

what a

down the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on

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

students pulled up their socks on the

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

were over, the first thing everyone did was check answers with their

test papers, walked out of the classroom just

it go?” she asked

already thinking about

you did pretty good, didn’t you?”

two-day finals were over, and the students had gone

were still

not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn and the other teachers

had come in third

shocked when she

teachers checked his paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and they all

tallied, most teachers

top

they left the second-place

wasn’t surprised by

card, raising an eyebrow

“No cheating?”

underestimate me. Earned

card. “Go

tell you, Preston sidled up to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top five, she’d grant

at him, his brow

in, smirking,

do you want her

“Be my auntie.”

darkened instantly, “Preston, are you out of your mind?”

you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think

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