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.

midnight, he rolled down the car windows and let

standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes,

cool down

Melvin drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out of

darkened apartment. She must

what a heartless

this

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

slackest students pulled up their socks on the two days

with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out,

were over, the first thing everyone

walked out of the

go?” she

full of confidence. “I’m already thinking about what favor

chuckled and nodded, “Wow, you

finals were over, and the students had

teachers were still

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

had come in

shocked when she saw his score.

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

the scores were tallied, most teachers were

surprises, her class was top of

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

wasn’t surprised by the results.

card, raising an eyebrow

“No cheating?”

Earned it fair and square.”

“Go make your

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 five, she’d grant me a

at him,

in, smirking,

want

“Be my auntie.”

expression darkened instantly, “Preston, are you out

Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to

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