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.

windows and let the wind mess up his hair

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

cool down

to. By the time he snapped out of

darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a

what a

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

everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was

their socks on the two

during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out,

first thing everyone did was check

clutching test papers, walked out of the classroom just as

go?”

“I’m already thinking about

nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good, didn’t you?”

the students had gone

still nervously grading papers.

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

never passed before, had come in third in the grade.

completely shocked when she saw his

to make sure nothing

tallied, most

surprises, her class was top of the

left the second-place class trailing by dozens of

wasn’t surprised by the

report card, raising an eyebrow

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it

the report card. “Go make your

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,

glared at him, his

in, smirking, “Pretty

do you want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

are you

shrugged it off. “I have other uncles, you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother.

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