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.

he rolled down the car windows and let the wind

pier, standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the heat inside

cool down

planning to. By the time he snapped out of it, he was already there.

at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping

a heartless woman.

this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely under the

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

slackest students pulled up their socks on the two

standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the same

everyone did was check answers

out of the classroom just as Preston

it go?” she

thinking about what favor

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

over, and the students had gone

teachers were still

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

passed before, had come in third in the

was completely shocked when she saw

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

all the scores were tallied, most teachers were

class was top of the grade again.

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

by the

card, raising

“No cheating?”

Earned it fair

dropped the report card. “Go make your

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, his

smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

want her

“Be my auntie.”

expression darkened instantly, “Preston, are you out of your

forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too.

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