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.

he rolled down the car windows and let the wind

pier, standing by the river and

cool down

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

her darkened apartment. She

a heartless woman.

open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a little

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

students pulled up their socks on the two days of

exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping

were over, the first thing everyone did was check answers

test papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston

it go?” she

confidence. “I’m already thinking about what

chuckled and nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good,

students had gone home for the holidays.

teachers were still nervously grading

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

never passed before, had come in third

when she saw his score.

to make sure nothing was

the scores were tallied, most teachers were

her class was top of the

they left the

wasn’t surprised by the results.

card, raising an eyebrow in

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it fair and

dropped the report card. “Go make your mom’s

face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top five, she’d grant me a

at him, his

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever,

want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

are

got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle is a

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