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.

rolled down the car windows and let

river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the heat

cool down

building without really planning to.

darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a

what a

felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a little

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

the slackest students pulled up their socks on the two days of

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

the first thing everyone

out of the classroom just as Preston

go?” she asked

thinking about what favor you’ll owe me.”

“Wow, you did pretty good,

were over, and the students had gone home for the

still

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

come in third in the

when she saw his score.

other teachers checked his paper again to make sure nothing was missed,

tallied, most teachers were

was top of the grade again.

they left the second-place class trailing by

wasn’t surprised by the

report card, raising an

“No cheating?”

me. Earned it

the report card. “Go make your

got something to tell you, Preston sidled up to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I

at him, his brow

in, smirking, “Pretty

you want

“Be my auntie.”

expression darkened instantly, “Preston, are you out

know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my

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