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

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

cool down

to. By the time he snapped out of

darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a baby now.

what a

He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but

teachers-was caught up

pulled up their socks on the two days

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

exams were over, the first thing everyone did

out of

go?”

of confidence. “I’m already thinking about

“Wow, you did

finals were over, and the students

teachers were still nervously grading papers.

or not until the results

passed before, had come in third in

was completely shocked when she saw

paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and they

were tallied, most

was top of

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

wasn’t surprised by the

Preston’s report card, raising

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it fair and square.”

report card. “Go make

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 got into the top

glared at him, his

smirking, “Pretty clever,

want her

“Be my auntie.”

are you out of your mind?”

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

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