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.

car windows and let the wind

river and smoking

cool down

without really planning to. By the time he snapped out

apartment. She must be sleeping like

what a heartless woman.

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

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

up their socks on the two

standing at the podium keeping

first thing everyone did

of the

it go?” she

already thinking about

chuckled and nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good,

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

were still nervously

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

never passed before, had come

completely shocked when

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

were tallied, most teachers were congratulating Jocelyn.

her class was top of the grade again.

score, they left the second-place class trailing by dozens of

wasn’t surprised by

Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow in

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it fair and

the report card. “Go make your mom’s

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

at him, his brow

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty

want her

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you

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 is a great idea.”

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