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 up his

standing by the river and smoking

cool down

Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to.

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

a heartless

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

parents, and teachers-was caught up in a

their socks

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

were over, the first thing everyone did was

test papers, walked out of the

go?”

was full of confidence. “I’m already thinking about

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

finals were over, and the students had gone home for

still nervously grading papers.

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

never passed before, had come in third in the grade.

was completely shocked when she

his paper again to make sure nothing was missed,

were tallied,

was top of the grade again.

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

by the results.

card, raising

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it fair and

“Go make your

grin spreading across his face.

at him, his brow furrowing.

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

are you out

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

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