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.

let the wind mess up

the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling

cool down

building without really planning to. By the time

up at her darkened apartment. She must be

what a heartless

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

fmals approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up

up their socks on

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

thing everyone

papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston

go?” she asked

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

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

were over, and the students had gone home for the holidays.

were still

one knew whose students did well or not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn

come

shocked when she saw

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

tallied, most teachers were congratulating Jocelyn.

top of the grade again.

score, they left the second-place

by

Preston’s report card,

“No cheating?”

me. Earned

card. “Go make your mom’s day.”

to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into

at him,

in, smirking,

do you want her

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are

got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing

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