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

river and smoking another two

cool down

building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out of it, he was

up at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like

what a

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

everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up in a tense atmosphere.

the slackest students pulled up their socks on the two days

the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium

thing everyone did

clutching test papers, walked out of

it go?” she asked

“I’m already thinking

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

the students had gone home for

still nervously grading papers.

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

who’d never passed before, had come in

completely shocked when she

to make sure

the scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating

was top of the grade again.

left the second-place class trailing

by the

Preston’s report card,

“No cheating?”

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

card. “Go make your mom’s

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

him, his brow furrowing.

leaned in, smirking,

want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you out of your

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

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