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.

let the wind mess up his hair as he

and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling

cool down

to. By the time he snapped out of it, he was already

her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping

what a heartless

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

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

up their socks on the two days of

standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher

the first thing everyone did was check answers

papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston

it go?” she

thinking about what favor you’ll owe me.”

chuckled and nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good, didn’t

students had gone home for the holidays.

were still nervously grading

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

before, had come

completely shocked when

paper again to make sure nothing was missed,

scores were tallied,

surprises, her class was top of the grade

to Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place class trailing

wasn’t surprised by the

card, raising an eyebrow in

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it

report card. “Go

his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top five,

him, his brow

in, smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

you want

“Be my auntie.”

darkened instantly, “Preston, are you out of your

you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle is a great idea.”

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