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.

past midnight, he rolled down the car windows and let the wind mess up his hair as he drove.

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

cool down

without really planning to. By the time he

at her darkened apartment. She

what a heartless woman.

this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely under the vast night

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

slackest students pulled up their socks on the two days of

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

were over, the first thing everyone

test papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston

go?” she asked

thinking

“Wow, you did pretty good,

the students had gone home

teachers were still nervously grading

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

who’d never passed before, had come in third in

when she saw his score.

paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging

all the scores were tallied, most teachers were

top of the

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

by the results.

looked at Preston’s report card,

“No cheating?”

me. Earned it fair and square.”

“Go make

something to 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, she’d grant me a

glared at him, his

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever,

do you want her to

“Be my auntie.”

are

“I have other uncles, you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle

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