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 drove.

eventually stopped at the pier, standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the

cool down

2 a.m., Melvin drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time

She must

what a heartless

open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a little

and teachers-was caught up

pulled up their socks

the podium

the exams were over, the first thing everyone did was

out of the classroom just as

go?”

“I’m already thinking about what favor

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

two-day finals were over, and the students had

were still

whose students did well or not until the results were announced,

passed before, had come in third in the

when

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

scores were tallied, most teachers

surprises, her class was top of the grade again.

the second-place class trailing by dozens of points.

wasn’t surprised by

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

“No cheating?”

me. Earned it fair and square.”

card. “Go make your mom’s

spreading across his face. “I made

at him, his brow furrowing.

in, smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

you want her

“Be my auntie.”

“Preston, are you

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

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