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.
car windows and let
the pier, standing by the river and smoking
cool down
2 a.m., Melvin drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to.
up at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a baby now.
a heartless
like this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely under the vast
fmals approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up
their socks on the two days of
grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium
thing everyone did was check
walked out of the classroom just
it go?” she asked
of confidence. “I’m already thinking about what favor you’ll owe me.”
and nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good, didn’t
were over, and the students had gone home for the holidays.
were still
until the results were announced, and Jocelyn
who’d never passed before, had come in third in the
when
paper again to make sure
scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating
top
to Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place class trailing by dozens
by
card, raising an
“No cheating?”
scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it fair and
card. “Go make your
a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn.
at him,
in, smirking, “Pretty
want
“Be my auntie.”
are you
a godbrother.
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