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 the wind mess up his hair as he

the river and smoking another

cool down

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

her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a baby

what a

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

teachers-was caught up in a tense

their socks on the two days of exams.

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

everyone did was

test papers, walked out of the classroom just as

it go?” she asked

already thinking

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

and the students

still nervously grading

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

come in third

completely shocked when she saw

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

the scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating

surprises, her class was top of

left the second-place class trailing by dozens

surprised by the

Preston’s report card, raising an

“No cheating?”

Earned it fair and

the report card. “Go

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

him,

smirking,

do you want her to

“Be my auntie.”

are you out of your mind?”

my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle is a great

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