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 mess up his hair as he drove.

river and smoking another two

cool down

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

at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping

a heartless

gas pedal, speeding down the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the

parents, and teachers-was caught up in a tense

socks on the

school was as silent as the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the

first thing everyone did

clutching test papers, walked out of the classroom just

it go?” she asked

was full of confidence. “I’m already thinking

chuckled and nodded, “Wow, you

students had gone home for the

still nervously grading

knew whose students did well or not until the results were

had come

shocked when she saw his score.

to make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging

tallied, most teachers were

was top of the grade

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

surprised by the

looked at Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow in skepticism.-

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it

the report card. “Go

his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top five, she’d grant

glared at him, his brow furrowing.

smirking, “Pretty clever,

do you want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you out

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

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