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.

and let the wind

the pier, standing by the river and smoking another

cool down

drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time

up at her darkened apartment. She must

a

gas pedal, speeding down the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely under the

the fmals approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught

socks on

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

over, the first thing everyone did was

clutching test papers, walked out of

go?” she asked

“I’m already thinking about what favor you’ll owe me.”

“Wow, you did pretty good, didn’t

finals were over, and the students had gone home for the

were still nervously grading papers.

or not until the results were

had come in third

when she

his paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging puzzled looks.

the scores were tallied, most teachers

her class was top of the grade

third-place score, they left the second-place class trailing by dozens

by the

card, raising

“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

him,

smirking,

you want her

“Be my auntie.”

“Preston, are you out of

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

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