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.

he rolled down the car windows and let the wind mess up his

at the pier, standing by the river and

cool down

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

looked up at her darkened apartment. She must be

what a heartless woman.

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

and teachers-was caught up in

their socks

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 back

first thing everyone did was check answers

out of the classroom just as Preston

go?”

was full of confidence. “I’m already thinking

you did pretty good,

finals were over, and the students had gone home for the holidays.

teachers were still nervously grading

not until the results were announced,

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

completely shocked when she saw

again to make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging puzzled looks.

scores were tallied,

her class was top of the grade again.

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

wasn’t surprised by the results.

card, raising

“No cheating?”

me. Earned it fair and square.”

the report card. “Go make your mom’s

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

glared at him, his brow

smirking, “Pretty clever,

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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